Are you more interested in this election and politics in general?
By dizzblnd
@dizzblnd (3073)
United States
March 26, 2008 8:44am CST
I am 36 today!! YAY.. I have voted in the past. I have never really been interested in politics until this election. I have always relied on my husband to explain things to me and influence the way I vote.
Until this year. I have paid more attention to things going on. It is a very historical election. I have done my own research, learned a LOT here, and in the process got MANY varying viewpoints.
What has made you interested in this years elections, if you were not previously interested?
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8 responses
@cynicalandoutspoken (4725)
• United States
26 Mar 08
There has never been just ONE candidate that has be ideal for me to vote for. I have always liked ones view on one thing over another on the 5 main topics that concern me.
So I decide who to vote for now simply by writing my 5 rule checklist and whoever has the most check marks in the boxes is who gets my vote.
Sadly this year, Clinton and McCain are tired. But being a republican I think McCain is getting my vote regardless.
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@anniepa (27955)
• United States
26 Mar 08
I agree, I don't think I've ever found one candidate with whom I agree on every issue. Out of pure curiosity, how did it turn out that Hillary and McCain are tied? What issues, if you don't mind my asking, do you use for your checklist? I ask that because I read so many things about how there is little difference between McCain and one or both of the Democrats and I really don't see that at all and I've been following what happens in the Senate in particular for several decades.
Annie
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@academic2 (7000)
• Uganda
26 Mar 08
When politics involves a free and fair elections, It is absolutely lovely, but the greed that dominates man's instincts extends to the political arena and it makes politics an absolutely dirty game!
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@academic2 (7000)
• Uganda
26 Mar 08
Good politics conducted according to the rules is good-but man is gredy and he often extends this gred to the arena of politics in the form of vote rigging, lies and intimidation-this makes politics extremely dirty dizzblnd. It is even worst here in Africa-the living example still fresh on my mind is the recent Kenyan election, where votes were literally stolen in broad day light-now in Zimbabwe Mugabe is saying, as long as he lives, opposition will Never win an electionin Zimbabwe-how dirty can politics be if people running our politics think in such a warpped manner?
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@irisheyes (4370)
• United States
26 Mar 08
I tended to always be a political junkie right before an election and then I kinda just walked away from it. But with things the mess they are right now it's harder to just walk away. I found myself really depressed after Bush was elected for a second term I think a lot of folks probably see this election as a chance to make some changes. Also, two of these candidates could make history. We could have the first woman president or the first African American president. I think that aspect is involving a lot of people who are not political animals by nature.
@irisheyes (4370)
• United States
2 Apr 08
Kaycform, that's a very negative point of view. If everybody thought that way there would never have been a Ghandi or a Martin Luther King. It took a lot of people believing in chang against all odds to put those leaders in place.
I truly believe that leaders are a reflection of the people who elect them. If we just give up and sit back and say we can't do anything, we will eventually get the Hitler we deserve. Better to pay attention and honestly try to elect the best person out there. That way we're in practice and when we need the Abe Lincoln or FDR, we'll at least recognize them.
I don't pretend to know for certain what lies ahead but I firmly believe that the interest and passion the American people are showing for this primary bodes well for our country regardless of who is the next president.
@kaycforum (23)
• United States
27 Mar 08
It doesn't matter if they are black, white, male or female,human being can't solve their problems. They make promises they can't or won't keep. We are headed for some real bad times.
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@mrpippo (756)
• United States
26 Mar 08
i think no matter how good we listen to the people running for office , they all tell us what we want to hear ,then when they become president they just do what they want and we cant do nothing about it ,so i do still vote but i really dont take what they say to serious...
@Celanith (2327)
• United States
27 Mar 08
Inspite of what many think due to media cover up, lies and manipulations. Ron Paul is still running in the Republican race. He scares the media and the republicans and democrats. Because he is against their agenda's to turn our nation over to the ONE world order. He wants to bring our basics back and uphold our fundamental values established by our forefathers. I am voting Ron Paul.
@graceandowen (1637)
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26 Mar 08
If i am totally honest i have never voted i am 24 and have been invited to vote a few times and i have bothered to go, its not the fact that i cannot be bothered with the actual voting but after concidering it I realised i know nothing at all about politics and each party ect so how could i go and give my vote to a certain party when i have no idea what they stand for, you may say i could go and research the different parties but i just dont have the time and i personally think every politician in the Uk is a liar.
