if none of the important issues are being talked about? I mean, all the candidates are talking about is the war and health insurance. No one is talking about what is important to young people, yet they want to us to get out and vote in record numbers. Am I the only one who's confused.
2007-10-02 13:18:31 · 5 answers · asked by beautifulblackme 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
Once again...rest assured that I am voting no matter what, but I asked a question about platform issues, not history. What I want to know simply is this: how can a young person vote for the best possible candidate if all the issues aren't being talked about?
2007-10-02 15:41:38 · update #1
I suppose that the only way to know is to visit each of the candidates web pages and see what they are saying, like you I am tired of the only issues being discussed being the war in Iraq and Health Insurance. I think that a lot of young and especially first time voters are completly confused
2007-10-02 13:30:52 · answer #1 · answered by justgetitright 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Read the news, attend ralleys, ask questions of campaign workers. By the time the General Election comes around each party will have a formal platform. Examine them carefully see which you agree with. Vote your concience.
If you listen to the extremist on the radio, be sure to listen to all sides. These guys are really nasty about twisting the facts. Heard one guy misquoting a candidate by playing a recording of a question being asked in one of the debates then playing her answer to another question. Had I not watched the debate the night before I would not have known this was going on and would have been seriously misinformed.
If you feel the major parties do not offer you a chouice you are comfortable with go ahead and vote for a third party candidate. Ignore the bloggers who say that is throwing your vote away. You are not throwing your vote away, you are delivering a very clear message that you are not happy with the product being offered by the two major parties.
Vote what YOU think is right.
2007-10-02 13:36:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
First of all, health care is important to you. So are the wars on terrorism and drugs. What can be more important that the suspension of habeus corpus?
You seem not have been paying much attention to history or economics. This will make it very difficult for you to cast an intelligent vote. Fortunately, you have some time to read before November 2008.
I suggest that a good place to start would be the Magna Carta, signed at Runnymede in 1215. That is really the documentary beginning of the rule of law in representative democracy. From there you should examine the growth of elected power through the British House of Commons, down through the Wars of the Roses into the Cromwell Revolution.
Keep an eye out for habeus corpus. That is the principle that a citizen cannot be held without charge or trial. Learn how important that has been to personal freedom.
Once you have done that it would help to read American history. Bernard de Voto, Barbara Tuchman, Bruce Catton and Frederick Lewis Allen would be a good place to start. You can track the history of the American Conservative movement from the early Federalists of John Adams and Alexander Hamilton through the Whigs, the Know Nothings and the Southern Democrats up to the days of the first Red Scares and the corporate governments of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover.
For that, I recommend Frederick Lewis Allen: "Only Yesterday." While you read about Harding, consider George W. Bush. Their personal failings seem to dovetail.
This may seem like a waste of time to you, but it will not be. You cannot see where we are going if you do not know where we have been.
Without an understanding of the Bull Market and the Great Depression you will not be able to see how the wars were started. Unless you can see that you will not understand why we cannot afford to be as ignorant today as we were in 1939, or as greedy as we were in 1928.
Then you will not be confused, and your vote will be informed. Then you will be doing your duty as a full citizen.
2007-10-02 13:40:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
What other issues are more important than those? I think that those should be talked about. Anyway, if you still believe that your other issues are more important, you should do something about it to address the issue, instead of asking Yahoo Answers.
2007-10-02 13:32:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Protests must be made by the youth so that their concerns will be noticed by the candidates.
VOTE for your choice as US President on my 360 degrees blog and know who will likely win.
2007-10-02 13:21:40 · answer #5 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋