Readers Write: Politicians should stop attack ads and focus on issues

The Island Now

I have found that all the campaign messages on TV by the candidates leading up to the midterm elections had many of them attacking one another, but few talking about the issues that concern Americans.

I would like to have heard what these candidates would do about the following: immigration reform, student loan programs, Medicare, Social Security, protecting our borders, shootings around the country, divisions facing the nation, and ways to deal with hate crimes, etc.

I would have liked specific plans to deal with these issues by the candidates than for each of them attacking one another. Shame on them all. Do they think Americans are that dumb and would not understand? Americans are smarter than they give us credit for.

Frederick R. Bedell Jr.

Mineola

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