
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, May 8, 1990                   TAG: 9005080522
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A8   EDITION: EVENING 
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VOTERS TIRE OF POLITICAL PROMISES

THERE MAY be many reasons why so few qualified voters vote, but I think the reasons are rather simple. First and foremost, people get tired of hearing the host of promises made by politicians that never seem to come to reality.

Second, people are fed up with all the mud-slinging that fills our news media. People feel it doesn't make any difference whether they vote or not, that things won't change much anyway.

\ EDWIN R. ROBERTSON\ PEARISBURG

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