Year after year, I see people scrambling to the polls to vote, but I can't help but wonder, who and what are we really voting for? I see commercials of candidates left and right spouting all these promises and putting down others. Then, when they get into office very little is done. Yet, everyone says exercise your right to vote. Well, I'm all about exercising rights, if it truly makes a difference. But, I can't help but feel that we have been spinning wheels for years now.
2006-10-31 07:31:57 · 16 answers · asked by Spicyone 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
It does make a difference, when one vote is added into millions and millions it sometimes seems like nothing, but its not. The commercials of this and that are just to sway people to vote somehow by giving some bs that happened years and years ago against their opponent. Same with propositions or senators or anything of the sort, the media is bash central and i choose to ignore them because they feed of people's likelihood to get swayed. I usually just read up on who i want to know about if I do not already of a base of an opinion. But that's beside the point, the point is you should vote. Each vote counts because you never know what that one vote can do. You may thing it gets lost among everyone else, but it does not. It's there and screaming your opinion and supporting your belief. Not to mention, sometimes the candidate you want to win needs all the support he/she can get and that vote gives it to him.
I really hope you do vote. This country is a democracy that is established by the human voice through voting. If you're going to have to change your way of living due to a person who gets elected, you might as well vote for you or what you want.
See you at the polls...maybe?
2006-10-31 09:03:06 · answer #1 · answered by Maggie Mae 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I try to vote in every election. The part I find most difficult is the lack of information available on the majority of the people running. Radio adds about someone being good don't usually tell us what someone really believes in. Hearing someone saying they will fight for something doesn't impress me either. What is their goal? How will they get it done? That is what I want to know.
I end up voting on the things I think I know about and leaving the others blank. I hope the other people voting know enough about the ones I leave blank to make a good choice.
2006-10-31 15:39:18 · answer #2 · answered by Automation Wizard 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One individual vote may make no difference, but "mass"; a lot of bundled votes do make a difference. If there's something to choose off course. You can choose from over a 100 different kind of hairsprays, but from very few political views or social visions. Apart from limited choice in political visions there's the issue of numbers; the more people live in a nation-state the less weight the individual vote has.
2006-10-31 15:46:05 · answer #3 · answered by nultienman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES-YES-YES!!! it makes all the difference in the world. if moderate America does not vote the extreme right/left wingers can get their people out to vote and if enough people from the middle don't vote then it is their extreme ideas that get pushed. it is sad that most do not even consider the people who have died for this right to be passed down to the next generation. and i am a firm believer that if you don't vote you are guiding this country towards a government that fully thinks for you. and if you are one of those people who think we have no freedom now... just sit and watch to see what happens.
2006-10-31 15:46:00 · answer #4 · answered by BRYAN H 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you don't vote, you lose your right to complain about what is going on in politics. My rule!
Ignore the sound bites, and do your own research on candidates for office. At the very least, know the issues and vote in the local elections for your city and county.
2006-10-31 15:51:13 · answer #5 · answered by oklatom 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Little drops of water, make the mighty ocean.
As the people, So the government. Vote to bring the best available to be your voice. May be everything that you want doesn't get done. But think how life was 20years back and how it is now. Small steps take you to your final destination...
2006-10-31 15:45:33 · answer #6 · answered by Trinity 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I totally understand how you're feeling; however, I think people view voting completely differently now, because, quite frankly, before, they didn't think anything really affects them -- as human nature would predict. Now, I think voting holds more meaning as we are all getting more and more fed up with the horrible corruption and bullshit within our own government. The true answer, logically, would be voting independent.
2006-10-31 15:39:24 · answer #7 · answered by Craig 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is there not an option to vote for no-one?
I know you get that here for the PM.
Then it would be not voting but going on record to say you don't like any of them.
If not, you just have to pick the lesser of the evils when voting i'm afraid.
2006-11-02 20:46:55 · answer #8 · answered by Fluffy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It does matter. Our fathers fought hard for this country. Troops have fought hard for this country. It only happens every couple of years and only takes a half hour. Vote and give thanks to our fathers for letting us have such a special place to live. Think of all the other places in the world that we could have ended up. Thankfully we didn't.
2006-10-31 15:38:50 · answer #9 · answered by ffsotus 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you don't vote, you're giving up your say in the process. It's the only way the average Joe can hold elected officials accountable.
2006-10-31 15:39:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋