Do you think most people vote their choices after serious study?

Question

or simply follow along like so many sheep in the flock ?

Answer 1

If people made their choices based on serious study, do you think campaigns would spend so much money on signs along the highways and short TV/Radio commercials? They know that people vote based on name recognition from the signs, and the brief, mud-slinging commercials because they are too lazy to actually research and get involved. All the studies prove that they are right. The masses are dumb sheep.

Best Wishes,

Sue

Answer 2

I am constantly amazed that so many people don't understand the issues or the candidates. And I don't mean just high school dropouts. I mean people who have graduated from college and have made it into the comfortably well off "upper middle class", although some of these just got there by marriage. Some of these don't even regularly read a newspaper.

My wife and I even encountered two medical doctors who didn't understand the misleading "Missouri Proposition 2" which was allegedly for "stem cell research", although it was really for unlimited and irreversible funding for EMBRYONIC stem cell research. One private firm provided nearly all of the campaign funding and will be the primary beneficiary. Once these medical doctors learned the facts, they both said they would vote against it.

Answer 3

I am sorry to say that when I was a democrat,I really didnt pay attention to the politics because I was told that republicans were the bad guys.When the Gore/Bush campaign was over and Gore tried to have the military votes thrown out because they were late coming in off the ship from overseas,that torqued me since I believe if anyone has a right to have a vote counted,it is the military who live and die for our freedoms and the freedoms of others.Then I started to pay attention and look at both sides,didnt like the side I was on,another thing that swayed me was the hatred from my old party.I am now a conservative republican.

Answer 4

In this country?!! (The U.S.) Pul-ease!!! If you pay attention you'll quickly learn that people can't remember from one day to the next let alone pay attention to historical evidence and fact. We have professional politicians who drive their dates off bridges and leave them to drown while they're busy holding press conferences... Elected officials whose pay is so scandlously high it'd be enough to choke a horse. Officials who were members (in good standing) of serious hate groups. And still these slugs keep getting re-elected. The only things these people study are which sitcom is on this evening and when they will get to collect their next pay check. -- I know how I voted and why. I just can't wait to see what happens next! Wait! I think I hear the sound of a giant toilet flushing...

Answer 5

I think most people think a bit, but serious study, people are busy, they can't for the most part (and have no real incentive given the limitations of representive "democracy") spend huge swathes of their time studying politics in order to make a calculated descision. Generally they will either vote for a party they approve of - or for an individual who appeals to them and who they think would listen to them when they write their letters to their representitve to do this or that - and really there is no way to tell in advance how responsive to his constituants a new candidate will be.

Answer 6

If the did serious study there would be a huge independent majority because the party liners wouldn't be able to influence the elections with their money. I believe the country would be far better off as people in office would have gotten their using their brains rather than their money.

Answer 7

I think people make choices on SOME of the candidates after studying them. Problem is, when you go to the polls, there are so many other people and positions that you did NOT study, so you wind up going by what a commercial said, ot what your friend said, etc.

Answer 8

If by "sheep in the flock" you are referring to political parties, then my answer is to say that people choose to join and be loyal to a party for reasons into which they have put much serious thought.

Answer 9

Most people I know consider the candidate and the issues very seriously. I hope all people do that vote and I believe that they do. Sheep just don't have the energy to over come the inertia that holds them to the couch with the remote in their hand.

Answer 10

no. unfortunatly alot of younger people dont care about the facts and usually vote what their parents vote bc their brainwashed.