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		<title>Unintentional Sponsorship</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was reviewing my home page tonight and I couldn&#8217;t help but notice that every ad that was displayed on it was politically-oriented.  This, in and of itself, didn&#8217;t surprise me &#8211; most of the posts I&#8217;ve written in the past 2 weeks have been related to coverage of the conventions and the candidates.  The [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was reviewing my home page tonight and I couldn&#8217;t help but notice that every ad that was displayed on it was politically-oriented.  This, in and of itself, didn&#8217;t surprise me &#8211; most of the posts I&#8217;ve written in the past 2 weeks have been related to coverage of the conventions and the candidates.  The detail that I found personally disturbing, though, was that most of these ads seemed to mention McCain and/or Palin (or if they mentioned Obama, it seemed negatively tinged).  <span id="more-122"></span></p>
<p>If there is one thing these last 2 weeks has cemented in my mind, it is that I am fairly liberal-minded.  I have known that already, but if there was any doubt.  Whatever doubt Obama hadn&#8217;t extinguished, Palin finished off (Jon Stewart helped a bit, too).  But I guess because I spent more time talking about the negatives and the issues that I took with what I heard of late, the code that tries to figure out what keywords to base advertising on saw a saturation of GOP-related information.  I guess if I was eagerly committed to shifing this tide, I could just write a whole paragraph or 2 of Barrack Obama over and over again (or I could actually write something positive about him &#8230; worth considering).  But I&#8217;m not that petty &#8211; after all, the advertisers are paying me, not vice versa.  So if a couple of pennies from McCain&#8217;s warchest end up trickling into this liberal&#8217;s bank account, so be it.  I mean, if by some chance he manages to get elected, I&#8217;m a long way from that $5 million middle-class mark so I&#8217;ve better start working on getting there.</p>
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