Nauseating campaign ads

Is it me, or are the campaign ads for those running for public office not just ridiculous and nauseating, but full of meaningless attacks on the person running against the person whose campaign paid for the ad?
At their core, all the ads are the same-they are personal attacks on an oppenent, based on actions they took in the past, or on ideological positions they hold-regardless of who the ad is targeting, there really isn't a difference; and all that these ads do is highlight the fact that has helped to create a silent majority within our country: that those who aspire to run for public office, or those already holding that public office, are, in some way, corrupt, corrupted or corruptable.
In the end all these ads do is turn off the majority of people from voting, and tell us nothing about the candidate who paid for the ad....

Wouldn't it be nice if one day, we all woke up to find that these ads disappeared, to be replaced by ads stating the positions the candidats held on the most important issues of the time?
Wouldn't it be nice if the people who ran for public office actually held the capacity to directly answer a question when in a debate?...

In physics, it can be mathematicaly proved that anything is possible...I can only hope that that includes politics and politicians, because then, maybe, we have some hope.