I’m not sure if it is the Philadelphia market or that I’ve just been lucky because I haven’t watched that much TV lately. I was watching more in the spring and I did see a large number of ads on TV and most were negative. During the Republican primary season, they seemed to be mostly negative ads either for against Mitt Romney. Ane then they were about the Presdential race but either Romney against Obama or Obama against Romney and largely negative.

But last night there was an Obama ad on while I was watching the Olympics and it seemed very positive as compared to what I had been seeing. The President seemed to be drawing a sharp contrast between Mitt Romney’s economic ideas and his, and telling the voters they had an important choice to make. Of course, in 1 minute (or maybe it was less), you cannot go into too much depth. And you can’t really expect either side to be very positive about the opposition ideas. But still, it may be the start of a reasonable discussion.

Can we look forward to a serious discussion of the issues ?