They should have been doing this from the moment Fake Doyle won the Republican primary.

> The Republican Mike Doyle doesn’t always identify himself as such. While he bills himself as “the right Mike,” his lawn signs don’t identify him by party, and mentions of his affiliation are hard to come by on his website or even in his campaign announcement.

Politicians really should be required to display their party affiliation in all of their advertising.

I got a mailer from Jeremy Shaffer, same shit. Eight paragraphs of boilerplate about bipartisanship, "common sense" solutions, supporting small businesses, etc.

On the other side was his resume, minus the part where he was a leader at an anti-gay Baptist church.

I emailed him to ask why he was too much of a coward to admit that he's a Republican. Unsurprisingly, he was too much of a coward to explain himself.

I've always thought the opposite. I wish no one would identify by party. At the very least, the government shouldn't be advertising your party affiliation for you on the ballot.

If everyone had to actually know who you were voting for, and not just what team they were on, I think it would do a lot more good than harm.

I can surmise a lot of information about a candidate by knowing what party they belong to. Particularly in this day and age. Having their party affiliation listed is a good thing. Otherwise, Republicans would just always run somebody who comes alphabetically first and win all of the time.

The problem with this is that so many political ads have out-of-context quotes and outright lies. If I believed them I'd assume every candidate running for everything was personally trying to murder me (even though sometimes it seems like they are indirectly).

Oh, Doyle rules!

That would be fine if every Republican in the country right now wasn’t licking Trump’s boots.

It wouldn't have been fine beforehand, either - the Republicans before the bootlicking facilitated and enabled said bootlicking, to say nothing of the rest of their reprehensible policy positions