Are you voting the way you want to? Or the way dirty tricks and media are pushing you?

Question

Vote with your heart and mind, not by what someone else says on the News, on the Radio, in the paper, or whatever someone else says that you never agreed to. Our vote is much to precious not to take it seriously, or to use it as a strategy. One more question. Does anyone know of an honest politician, who doesn't change the rules that they've agreed to? I can't think of one. People are getting tired and disappointed.

Answer 1

Vote to your own prejudices not someone else's.

Answer 2

The screamers and smear artists will show you how to vote. Some give reasons why to vote for a candidate, these are good, most give reasons not to vote for a candidate, do the opposite of these nobs. A candidate can win on their merits, lesser candidates must go negative to scare up your vote.

Answer 3

The sad thing is that most Americans vote based on what they hear/see/view online in many forms of media. Want real information? ASk the NONPARTISAN League of Women Voters.

Answer 4

I know the media for what it does.

It wants favors from the Bush Administration, so it's playing the game as it did, shamefully, by supporting the war.

Answer 5

ron paul

Answer 6

First, I believe that the term ‘honest politician’ is an oxymoron and as such, everything that they say should be suspect.  You have to learn to read between the lines when it comes to politics. If you disavow what others are telling you and you are skeptical of the TV and the newspapers and you think the politicians are themselves untrustworthy … well what is the point in voting at all? Like one answer above stated, you might as well flip a coin. We are in the mess we are because way too many people vote for all the wrong reasons where common sense and facts don’t filter into the decision making. It is sort of like the minds of most politicians … way too little common sense or facts and way too much BS. I think most of them would be lost without their keepers.

Anyway, your mind is a good place to start collecting bits and pieces until you construct an accurate outline of the bigger picture. I would recommend caution where you mentioned the “HEART” as that is where most people are bombarded with extraneous, misleading and often just plane information that is wrong. The heart is what they attack to stir up strong emotions in an attempt to keep your mind out of the picture. Your heart is by far easier to (emotionally) manipulate than your mind because the mind deals mostly in the realm of facts and unlike emotions and politicians, the facts do not lie. You need to temper your political mind with your heart to keep from becoming callus and too rigid. This is not an easy matter and takes a lot of effort to get control of your political self.

By the way, "The vote" is a human right. It is seen as an American right. In a democracy, there is nothing more fundamental than having the right to vote. Yet the right to vote is not a fundamental right in our Constitution. Good luck and happy voting.

Answer 7

I'm going to vote the way I did for the last couple of Presidential elections and my state's gubernatorial election-- I'm going to flip a coin. I figure, at best, the candidates are telling voters what they want to hear and couple that with what the media wants us to see, and that the candidates' possible change of views if they are elected, it's a c**p shoot either way. Not to mention the hate campaigns the candidates like to do. I guess if they have nothing good to say about their opponent then they don't have much to say about themselves to show how good they are.

Despite the stuff with Mr. Obama lately, I still hear more things about the Democrat candidates than what I do/did about the Republican-- This is both with local and national. For that matter, they only report on the ones who are more popular, who have more money, etc. I hardly heard anything about Dennis Kucinich (the only candidate in which I was somewhat interested) until he dropped out and when he won the Congressional election (I live in Ohio). Go figure.

Answer 8

There may be no politician but there are some things people can do such as push for the inclusion into The Bill Of Rights The Right To Peace for citizens, the right to a decent standard of living, The Right to protect the environment, The Right to an Environment free of industrial pollution, the right to conserve natural resources.

Next to introduce these rights into other countries and then one more for all the right for all citizens to own the planet. This Right could end The Resource Wars which have such an adverse impact on the planet.

Answer 9

Dr. Ron Paul, he is still dominate in my physche as to what a good presidential candidate looks like on paper and in history. I dont understand why he's not the republican nominee, instead they picked much more war McBush... whats up with that.

Ron Paul 08

Answer 10

I am voting for Obama. Because I want to.

Answer 11

I'm a non-partisan voter. So, I won't vote in any primary until this September. That will be mostly for judicial positions. I call each candidate for those positions and ask them a few questions. The key question is: What do you think you will be able to do as an elected official that you can't presently do as a private citizen? Then I wait for their answer. I don't watch political ads on TV nor do I pay attention to the 7th grade antics of the candidates and their defenders.

BTW, this year will mark the 48th year in a row where I have not missed voting in any general, primary or special election.