netmeg - 7:09 pm on Nov 3, 2008 (gmt 0)

I don't think this is anything new. My Michigan-oriented site has always gotten a lot of political advertising when there's an election; both for this one and a couple years ago when we had a gubernatorial election.

In general, I'm more concerned about issue ads than candidate ads. I have strong positions on some issues and will knock off opposing ads if I see them on my sites. I've gone as far as to block all visits from particular sites I abhor when I see they've added a link to my site for political reasons, like telling their people to go to my site for a list of events where they can accost people about their point of view.

Heh, I don't think there's any way to tell Google - yea, you can send me ads for this side, but not for that side, so in general, it would probably be a good thing to be able to opt out entirely.

But this also wraps around to another issue that has been a pet peeve of mine for a long time - I have a lot of vastly different sites, and what's appropriate for one isn't appropriate for others. If I had a political blog or some such, I might well WANT political ads. We really need the ability to block on a per site level.