Presidential campaign 'legitimately' toxic?  TV ads could give
new meaning to 'sexual politics'   I can sleep through Nov. 6
and wake up knowing that Maryland's Electoral College votes will
be safely in President Barack Obama's pocket — or Gov. Martin
O'Malley will be in witness protection.  Or I can do my civic
duty and vote, without having to produce my birth certificate
(the long form) and a cheek swab for a DNA test. Voter
suppression is what they are doing in swing states this election
— it's the flip side of loading people in a van to take them to
the polls on Election Day.  But if I lived in a state like
Pennsylvania, Maryland's neighbor to the north, or Virginia, our
neighbor to the south, I would have to spend the next two months
listening to the 60s station on XM radio or watching old
episodes of "Modern Family" on the DVR to avoid the political
ads that are going to fill the air.  President Obama and Mitt
Romney are going to spend more than $1 billion on TV ads, and
most of it will be in swing stat