I don’t own a TV, I’m gonna be ok.
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The flood of ads will likely be limited to the 10-15 states where there’s even a slight chance of the general election being competitive.
In the rest of the US, we only have to deal with the media coverage.
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Mostly this. There may be a few ad buys on national cable networks that we all get to see, but even those are mostly available to be purchased in specific markets so the candidates can save money and buy only in markets targeted by their campaigns.
There is also some spillage. For example part of the Phoenix television market spills into California. Arizona is competitive, so candidates will buy ads for the Phoenix market that will also be seen by some Californians who live in the Phoenix market… even though California is not competitive.
There are more and more ways around that… tailoring ad buys to be for only a portion of the television market (such as the portion of the Phoenix market that is actually in Arizona) and then selling different non-campaign ads to the Phoenix Californians on the cheap, but I think for the most part it’s still done at the market or national level.
There will also be some more broad “feel good” ads that are more designed to make rich people feel inclined to send the candidate money than to actually influence voting behavior. Those will hit wherever the campaigns perceive pockets of wealthy would-be donors to be.
But I suppose you still get bombarded with tv ads for your candidates for various local positions?
Of course, another difference with our system is we do not vote directly for a leader. We vote for a local party candidate and the party that wins the most ridings (analogous to Congressional districts) gets to form the government and that party leader becomes PM.
Indirectly, we are voting for a Prime Minister but I have often voted for a particular local candidate despite despising that party’s leader. Or, if I hate the leader but like the party’s policies, I vote for that party’s local candidate. Unlike the US, where you vote for three different federal arms of government (executive, house and senate), we only vote for house members.
And we do not have elected officials such as sheriffs, etc.
Sorry if you know all of this already.
Mostly I get bombarded with texts. Democrats text me because I donated to candidates in several battleground states in 2020. Republicans text me because I keep on voting in the Republican primary (one of these days my non-Trump vote will work, I’m sure of it).
Lol, every person I voted for lost in the primary.
Yeah, been there.
In my corner of the US, state legislative districts are too small to generate the campaign revenue to buy TV advertising.
Statewide offices (e.g. governor) aren’t up for election this year.
For federal offices, the Senate seat up this year won’t be competitive, and while there are five House seats in this TV market, only one of them will be competitive. We’ll get ads for that seat, and there will be a smattering of ads for the other races (especially if there end up being any competitive primary races when the non-presidential primary rolls around this summer).
There will definitely be a few campaign ads on the airwaves, mostly trying to drum up campaign contributions. But it won’t be anything like it’ll be in the swing states.
Gretzky doing a eulogy for Mulroney would be like Tom Brady speaking at a future funeral for Trump?
Yes, it was quite shocking moving from Ohio to Washington! Election Day just snuck up on me. You can’t possibly miss it in Ohio.
Just a warning for any Americans thinking about going to Niagara Falls for the solar eclipse.
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Another Canadian hockey great, Bobby Orr, is ahead of Brady in that respect.
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Bobby Orr is from Parry Sound.
That’s like saying he’s from Florida, but north.
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I just saw a truuuuck with a “Make Canada Great Again” across the top of the front windshield. 
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Waitl… Canada was great at some point???
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If your definition of greatness was an equitable society with features such as good public health care for all, low gun deaths, no debate over a woman’s right to choose, a lack of xenophobia, politicians working constructively, then Canada is already great.
If your definition of greatness includes none of the above but only great global influence, then Canada is not great.
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I’m not Canadian, but I’d think the fear should be that anyone displaying MCGA would think more like MAGA - that all the things you listed are anything but signs of greatness.
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Build the wall! Build the wall!
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Oh, I was just thinking in terms of football
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Don’t hate on the CFL
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