For months, The Daily Show has been making fun of Mitt Romney for being wooden, and honestly, it’s been funny. It should be funny. The Daily Show is a comedy show on a channel called Comedy Central. It stops being funny when real news outlets like CNN start allocating more and more time to whether or not Romney is dull. This is an election year, and the primaries are essentially over. Coverage of the presidential race should not be like the coverage of American Idol and Dancing with the Stars. Whether or not a candidate is funny has no bearing on his plan for the country. As an electorate, we should be talking about policy and discussing competing visions for our nation’s future, and we should be demanding the same from our media. News networks should be fact-checking claims made on the campaign trail, discussing campaign strategies and analyzing policy. That doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be some coverage of gaffes or discussions about whether or not the candidates are out of touch with the majority of Americans, but that’s very different than the conversations being had on our “news” networks who seem to focus exclusively on gaffes and personalities.

I won’t be voting for Mitt Romney because of his ideas, not because he’s “boring”. We’re picking a president, not a poker buddy. If your vote is swayed by whether or not you’d want to have a beer with the candidate or whether or not he’s funny, do everyone a favor and stay home on election day.

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