By now we’re all sick of it. Sick of the commercials, billboards, advertisements, buttons, and all of our friends’ Facebook posts.
Let’s just vote already! we want to scream.
But what is it that influences your vote? Are there key issues that help you decide which Presidential candidate you’re going to choose?
How about the other issues you’ll be staring down tomorrow? Do you know how you’ll vote on every one of your state’s propositions? How did you decide?
Some base their decisions upon hours of research, others upon endorsements by pundits or experts with whom they generally agree, and a new crop of people are saying that you can tell how to vote by what big businesses have backed the propositions.
So how about you? What are your key issues?
What or who helps you decide?
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I use a three-strikes system. If the candidate blows all three, his opponent gets my vote.
1. Candidate is a Republican.
2. Candidate mentions religion or ‘family values.’
3. Candidate complains about “socialism.”
Haha, well played good sir! I agree with you completely.
Hanging out with domestic terrorists is a non-starter. Bomber Bill –”we didn’t do enough”–Ayers and his despicable wife Bernardine–”dig it”–Dohrn. Failing to listen to sermons for twenty years.
Hanging out with Marxists at college–according to his autobio.
Energy costs will necessarily skyrocket…not good.
Gets rolled by every oil sheik in the world….noooo, I don’t think so.
Won two elections by getting divorce or custody proceedings unsealed, illegal as hell.\
Voted against Born Alive Infant Protection Act.
Getting tired here.
I tend to vote for whichever candidate seems less likely to expand the Administrative Welfare State at the expense of individual liberty. Unfortunately, the difference is too often a pretty small one.
I will vote for…
1) The presidential candidate that I believe is least likely to put our young people in harm’s way by leading us into unnecessary war.
2) The candidate that I perceive as having shown compassion, strength, intelligence, and an even-keeled temperament.
3) The candidate who I see as being most likely to protect and provide for vulnerable children, especially those in poverty.
4) Abortion is a biggie to me. I see it as an issue of children’s rights, but though this is of huge importance to me, it has little bearing on my vote, because no candidate has taken the stance I would hope for. Our society is not ready for it.
In my first point, my concern is for our military personnel of all ages, not just our young people. And my concern is also for innocent people in the country with whom we might go to war.