Do you think it really matters who wins the next U.S. presidential election?

Question

Do you think it really matters who wins the next U.S. presidential election?

Answer 1

In a word... absolutely. With two wars (soon to be one, after 2011), an economy in crisis, a volitile North Korea, Iran and Russia, this election could not be more important.

Why, are you one of those loons that believes in a "military industrial complex" or that the "zionists" secretly run the country or something like that?

Answer 2

In all honest, not really. I think if Obama gets elected, he'll find it impossible to deal with Congress - he certainly has no experience gathering bipartisan support.

If McCain wins, I see little in terms of major legislative action.

In the end, the status quo wins in American politics.

Answer 3

YES

Answer 4

Yes, very much so.

Does anyone really believe we would be in Iraq today if Al Gore had won in 2000?

And had Carter retained the White House in 1980 or Mondale had won in 1984, would the U.S. be any where near as prosperous as it is today?

Answer 5

YES, Obama is the ONLY person who can help us. CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!

Answer 6

No. Because our country (The USA) doesn't run fair or ethical government. Out government or the gov. at the time is backed by financial support$ / huge corporations that dicate which direction the country will go.

The gov. no longer cares directly for The People, but for the select few.

Honestly what business does the USA have helping other countries financially with jobs, when our country suffers with a high unemployment rate, and a disapperaring middle class.

Or the choice to go to war 3,000 miles away for military weapons, when N.Korea has the nuc. plant?

Or Afghanastian, when Mexico is sending thousands every day into the USA?

Not to mention the drugs that are allowed in the USA everyday.

The presidential election winner, will just promote who ever financially is backing them (which ever the big $$ corp businesses are)

Answer 7

yes i do the presidents job is the most important in the world he can change things for the better or worst with the help of congress and yes every vote counts we decide who is the best man for the job  

Answer 8

Politicians will always be the same no matter what party they come from Obama talks about change but I have yet to hear his plan for change. I could write his speeches ' American needs change and hope and with me you can hope to have that change... yes we can" . McCain will continue the same agenda of the hijacked republican party just look at who he picked for his VP, so i do not support either of them. If McCain were the same man he was in 2000 id vote for him but it is sad he is not that man anymore.  

Answer 9

No

Answer 10

Yes it will shape the supreme cout with likely 3 new justices. Theywill also shape our foreign policy and how we are viewed and respected by the world. They will determine the course we take to address the economy, healthcare, energy, and all the issues we Bush has neglected or mishandled over the past 8 years. I think it matters alot.

Answer 11

Most definitely!

If you are pro-environment, Obama

If you are upper-middle class, McCain

If you are in need up updated or insurance coverage (not sure).

There are sooo many things that will become of the new president.  There will be differences though, you can guarantee that!

Answer 12

On the one hand we have Obama who if elected will make history when he starts changing the U.S and gets shot for doing it.

On the other hand we have McCain who will himself make history when he dies in office and leaves the govenor of Alaska in charge of the counrty.

So, no, not really. Either way the U.S people are getting a different president then they voted for.

Answer 13

Yes because our lives are at stake

Answer 14

YES.  If you don't believe that things change depending on who wins office, then maybe you should not live in a democratic society.  Ask people who have lived in a communist nation if having the choice to vote for who they think should run the nation and see what they think.

Answer 15

if it comes from the democratic or republican party's no i don't think it really matters

Answer 16

No.  Because no matter who's elected we will:

- give everyone's jobs away with bad trade deals

- give away jobs with guestworkers

- give benefits and amnesty to illegal aliens

- go to war for Israel any time Israel snaps their fingers

- go endlessly into debt to countries like china

Answer 17

It has ALWAYS mattered. Especially on how it shapes the judiciary branch, as the President appoints Supreme Court Justices. It's the highest court in the land.

It always matters! If Gore were president (which had to do with the Supreme Court again...) then we would have never went to Iraq. The POTUS can really shape the world and we should always vote because of that fact.

Answer 18

Yes.  

Answer 19

Ofcorse it matters; we finally have a chance to live right again ..

Answer 20

No not really; America is seeing her last days as a 'super power'.  If history repeats itself; a nation of prosperity last about 200 years; America has exceed that by 30; but, if we really take it as when she became a 'Super power'... she is on her last leg and will be taken down.  Regardless who gets in the White House!

To the poster about if Obama gets in the reduction of those that hate us will be reduced by 50%; you're in dream land.  The Islamic nations what Obama because he is one of them.  He may say he is a Christian; but, you have to see what he really means by that.   When the man said openly in his book that if the politic winds shift he will side with his Muslim brothers... doesn't mean it will be reduced by 50%; it means he sold out to the Islamic nations to save his own butt.

Answer 21

Same ol' bull dung.

Answer 22

No. The economy will stay down for a few more years and the recession will deepen before it gets better. Both parties are made up of morally bankrupt weasels who choose adulterous affairs over their vows before God. If a person would lie to God and their partner, they would certainly lie to me. At some point, honor was lost in our country and there are no real men available to run, I guess. Neither party really has solutions for the problems that plague us. They only seem to want to keep their oil and HMO bosses happy. Somehow we will survive the incompetent leadership like we have for the past 10 terms.  

Answer 23

It depends if you'd rather invade Iran or Pakistan.  Either way, Obama and McCain will most likely bankrupt this country.  They are both big spenders, but want to cut taxes.   You might get some different services out of your tax dollar, but I don't hear either of them addressing the growing federal deficit and a offering a sound plan to correct the situation.

Their policies are just not adding up.

Answer 24

It always matters, but recently America hasn't been taking it seriously, letting an idiot get in office twice in a row. At least it is impossible for him to get in a third year but some how the Republicans voted, yet another, idiot. In fact I would call McCain worse than Bush.  

Answer 25

Well, yes. The President is this country's face.  

Answer 26

No. I completely lost interest.

Maybe next time...

Answer 27

If McCain wins, Pelosi will undermine his administration as much as possible and play partisan politics to keep Washington stalled at every turn. In that case, it won't matter that McCain is in office, because anything he tries to get done will be stamped out by Congress before it even has a chance.

If Obama wins, and the Democrats retain control of Congress, you'll have the Carter years all over again -- in which case the country is going to have some really, really rough waters ahead. Strap yourself in. It's gonna be a bumpy ride.