Voting More Important Than Ever
By nehrlas
@nehrlas (202)
United States
October 2, 2007 8:45am CST
I never realized how important every election is. The primary elections are coming up in a few short months to select which Presidential candidates will move on to the general elections. Will you be voting?
1 response
@tigertang (1749)
• Singapore
5 Oct 07
I'm not a US citizen so I can't vote in the 2008 election. However, I will say that I agree with the statement that voting is very important, particularly in a democratic society. The right to vote has been hard won, its something that people have paid for with their lives and its a shame when this hard won freedome is not used by the people whom this was given to.
On the whole, the US Presidents of the past few administrations have not been wonderful but they have not been too awful either (This Bush, rather than being evil per se is just incompetent). I think one of the reasons for this is because the US constitutions ensures that those in power are kept in check by the need to account to the voters in the next election. The same is pretty much true in the UK, Australia and Western Europe. It's one reason why policians in these parts of the world have been forced to ensure their citizens are reasonably well provided for.
So, regardless of what you think of the candidates, I would every American who has the right to vote to go out and use it with pride.
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@SlapItHigh (172)
• United States
5 Oct 07
Yes Ron Paul is going to get us out of Iraq. He is the only one who will actually get us out of Iraq and NOW. He is the strongest anti-war candidate by far.