"I also think we should ban all political advertising."

So says Dilbert-creator on his blog in a fun--and sometimes, interesting--piece on why he doesn't vote.

You know, he might have something. Most of the money raised for political campaigns related to advertising in one way or another. If pols were freed of prostituting themselves to get the money from special interests that they use to pay for all the polling, producing, and purchasing of ads and air time and space in periodicals, they might be fre to make sound decisions. Hmmm.

Free speech issue? Not if all campaigns were banned from having advertising and if you made provision for all points of view and all candidates to get access to the public.