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We have elections in a week here. What should I compare between the candidates in order to decide my vote? |
Travel Info We have elections in a week here. What should I compare between the candidates in order to decide my vote? Travel Tips There is a nice web tool you can use to know wich candidate thinks like you do. There are 18 questions and you can see the way of thinking of the main 5 candidates, at the end of the survey, the tool will tell you wich candidate麓s ideas are the most similar like yours. You can get a big surprise too... Source(s): http://www.neopoliticos.org/electomatic/... Other Travel Tips The ideology behind the party. Not if the actual or past government was good, the important thing is to "click" with an ideology and follow it, also, if you are unhappy with the people at the power, then, you should get involved and do the work yourself... politics are for everyone... you know... THE POWER OF ONE. First off, congratulations on making that decision to vote! So many times, one vote has made a difference in history. I got some info off the web for you... "In 1976, Jimmy Carter won over Gerry Ford. The State of Ohio went for Carter. As you know, with the electoral system, when a state has a majority for a candidate for the presidency, the entire electoral vote from that state goes to that candidate. In this case, Ohio's vote made the difference, and Ohio gave the election to Mr. Carter. But let's look a little closer at Ohio that year. Carter's margin in that state was only a few votes in each precinct. So if only a few additional people in each precinct in Ohio had voted differently, Mr. Ford would have been our president, not Mr. Carter. Let's look at another one in Ohio at about the same time. Pro-life Governor James Rhodes beat out challenging pro-abortion Richard Celeste for the governorship by a margin of one vote per precinct. O.K., let's turn to 1980 when Reagan was elected, and, if you remember, Republicans won a majority in the U.S. Senate that year. The incumbent senator in North Carolina, Robert Morgan, had been voting consistently pro-abortion. The challenger, John East, was strongly pro-life. North Carolina has six million people. East won that election by 11,000 votes. And how many pro-life senators do you think won their races that year by one percent or less? Well, let me list them: John East I've just mentioned, Senator Mattingly of Georgia, Senator Steve Sims of Idaho (by only 4,000 votes); Bob Kasten in Wisconsin and Alfonse D'Amato in New York. These narrow-margin victories made the difference in organizing the Senate and in confirming President Reagan's judicial nominees while he was in office. So, will your vote mean something? Certainly it will. And if there are several members in your family, your family's vote, alone, might--if duplicated in other precincts--result in keeping a pro-life candidate, whereas the absence of your vote might mean that a pro-abortion person will be elected. It's that simple." People vote for different reasons. I know that in my country we have two major parties. Lots of people just vote for the candidate whose party they support. Some support a party because their parents supported that party. I don't think that's the best way to go. You need to know, first of all, what you believe in. Then, you need to do your homework. Research the candidates as best you can to find which of them has belief systems that match yours. Vote for that person. I am only sorry to know that you have such a short time before elections. If you had more time, I would suggest that you write a letter to the persons in the election asking them specific questions. For example, the issue of homosexuality is becoming more prevalent in my society. If I wanted to choose a candidate to vote for I might address this issue in a letter and send a copy to both men/women. Whoever has the decency to answer and feels closest to the way you do about that issue is the one to choose. Perhaps since you don't have a lot of time, you could simply make telephone calls, research old newspaper articles, and listen to heresay in order to find out whose principles you agree with most. I wish you the best and hope that the decision you make will be one that satisfies your conscience. http://www.priestsforlife.org/elections/... Modified 1 year ago I guess you are talking about the elections in Costa Rica. Well, I hate Politics, however I am going to vote for Oscar Arias because he already was our President and he is really smart. Besides, Oton Solis is against the TLC and Oscar Arias is in favor. So, can you imagine what will happen to our country if the TLC does not get the approval? We are going to hell!!!!! I am not going to mention the other ones since they obviously are not going to win. Costa Rica already chose an incompetent President, and I said Costa Rica because I'm not including myself (I didn't vote for him). So, I guess INTELLIGENCE is for me the best characteristic a President should have. I don't want another "clown" as my president. |
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