October 2026 Election season is in full swing. The yard signs are up, mailboxes are stuffed to the brim with candidate flyers, and attack ads are going strong. If you're as unlucky as I am, you're also getting several unsolicited calls a day. I've stopped counting, and I've stopped answering. Yet by the time we head to the polls or mail in our absentee ballots, we like to believe we've made an informed decision. Long before advertising flooded the airwaves, and before social