If afraid by biased votes. Especially bias women votes. Here's why....?

Question

Sure Obama will get most black votes why? To make history to being the first black president, which is the wrong reason. Also I'm afraid women most women will vote McCain/Palin ticket because they want a women to make history rather than is she really ready. Cause women has never been in this position and don't know when it will happen again. If your a women or black you see that history can be made but don't vote on people to make history. Obviously there is a huge pressure to get the women's vote cause they are majority of the population( that include alot of black women which cut into Obama's black vote). I'm afraid alot of people are going to vote for a candidate for the wrong reasons. I know it's temping, could be first women VP: Sarah Palin, could be first black President: Barack Obama. For the sake of american don't go for history pick the right candidate because of they are truly ready. What do ya think ?

Also please no dissing candidates. Stick to the topic/question.

Answer 1

you know Women..

Answer 2

Palin has more experience than Obama.  And she isnt even running for the top spot.  

Answer 3

i soo get what your saying. i have been saying this samething through this whole election season. i would have loved hillary to have won the nom but not just because she was a woman but because i felt she was the best for the job. i dont want just any woman up there as president i want one who knows what she is doing and that would be hillary. but since i cant get who i want ive had to weigh my options and was really on the fence as to who to vote for up until the dnc when hillary and bill both through their support behind obama like they did plus i really liked what he had to say in his speech but what really sealed the deal was when mccain picked palin for his vp. i was honestly offended that the repubs thought us women would just come running to vote for him because he picked a token woman for vp.  

Answer 4

If McCain thinks picking a woman for his VP will get him women's support, he's sadly mistaken.

This was the original thought when Palin was announced as VP choice, but now they say it's because she's very conservative and helps McCain with his own base.

Either way history is going to be made, so yeah, we shouldn't vote on if we want a black president or a female VP.

Answer 5

Grow up and dump your male chauvinism. Women are less biased than men. An old truth. Only blacks are blocking their impartiality.

Answer 6

No kidding, you should see the support for Palin on Snowest.com because her husband is a snow machiner.  Just because he races snowmobiler, they are willing to overlook anything else to do with the campaign.  We should get past encouraging people to just get out and vote and start becoming educated on who we are voting for.

Answer 7

We have voted for all the wrong reasons for far too long.  Media hype is to blame for the majority of it.  It is really sad that people no longer look at the issues and weigh the pros and cons anymore.  I wish all the people who will vote for Obama based on the fact that he is black would stay home on election day.  I wish that all the Hillary supporters who have decided to vote for McCain because their candidate didn't get the DNC nod, will stay home on election day.  People voting for McCain just because he has a woman VP, you can stay home, too.  We don't need this sort of senseless voting.

We need votes that will make a difference.

Answer 8

I was for McCain long before he made a woman his running mate. :)

Answer 9

All votes are biased. Thats the entire point of voting.

Answer 10

Voting is biased by definition. People tend to vote for the candidate they relate to most. This is how GWB got in. Most Americans are idiots so they voted for him twice, to spite the fact that he was running against far superior candidates in both elections.  

Answer 11

This is one of the most mature "questions" over the elections I have read on YA. So many women and blacks are saying that the reason they are voting for the person they are voting for.. isn't because of their color or race but when you ask them what they like about the candidates, they know almost nothing about where "their" candidate stands. I haven't even seen Palin on tv yet, but I also have worked 50 hours just this week and after seeing Obama on the majority of channels over and over everyday, I have tried to stay clear of the TV. I have to say that it is really annoying that the media is playing all this up. They were so excited that Hilary was running and thought she could really win, I KNOW college students that were supposed to be intelligent individuals and they told me they were voting for her, and although I'm not a Hilary supporting I will always ask with respect why or talk with them respectfully. When I did ask them why, they would simply state "I want a womend presidident!" or "We need a women in there!" I would usually smile lightly and tell them that they need to vote for whoever they like but if they are going to vote for someone to at least figure out what that person's plan was, and where they stood on issues that were important to them.

No matter how you hash it, if you vote for someone simply because of their race or s*x, it's ignorant. In that same tone, if you vote for someone because you are worried or afraid of someone that isn't the same s*x or race as you might get in, that is also ignorant and I feel bad for you.

Answer 12

You're generalizing about women voters.

Not all of us will vote for McCain just because he has a woman running mate.

Many of us go by our candidates' values and what they stand for, not what gender they are.

Answer 13

Be afraid.. Be very afraid because McCain/Palin will be our next leaders!

Go McCain and Palin!

Answer 14

I don't agree that blacks are voting for Obama because they want him to make history.  They are voting for him because they think he will understand their issues better than any other candidate because he is black.  Some of them may be voting for him because they believe he will give them some advantage because he is black, but I seriously doubt that a lot of them are voting just because it would create history.  The issue of Sarah Palin's gender is a little looser, since she's a woman who is against reproductive rights, and there are more women who are offended by this than are thrilled by her s*x.  I didn't vote for Hillary Clinton because she was a woman.  I didn't vote for her because of her history and because I disagreed with her stance on a couple of issues that Obama had a better take on.  Although there are always kneejerk people who will vote on a narrow issue of gender or race, I seriously doubt that that is the primary motivation of most voters.

Answer 15

I'll try and stick to the topic. Bias in voting:

I don't think holding a bias is necessarily as wrong as racism, ageism, sexism, etc. I am not saying these things don't exist, I am just saying attributing them to a whole group as their only motivation is naive. It's an easy and "non-thinking" argument to make. I'll give some examples, if 90% or more of black people vote for Obama that proves they are racist or, all or most white people are racists, how many black presidents/vice presidents have there been? Both of those statements reflect "a truth" about our society but do not tell "the truth" of our society or it's people.

As a white person I can give you one real example of why a black vote for Obama is not racist or why my (a white vote) vote for McCain is not racist. I think Clarence Thomas is one of the great jurist of our time, many if not most black people would disagree. Do we differ because we are racists or have different and perhaps bias points of view?

I can see why black people and others would vote for Obama because he is the first viable black candidate that may win the presidency or for white people to vote for McCain (or, say, for his Viet Nam experience, like me because of a shared experience) or Palin or Clinton because they are women. The "just because" however is tricky. It's usually "just because" he/she is just like me and "we" have a "shared experience." Or I am comfortable with "a person like me" or "it's about time." Or we have a set of shared values, history, economic status, etc. The most 'altruistic person' in the world still has a set of biases to contend with, recognized or not.

Can any one really say that their political decisions are made without any bias whatsoever? What about the person who doesn't support cancer research, then a relative dies of cancer, the person then gets involved in cancer research and doesn't understand why everyone else is not involved? Biased, or not?

Your built in bias for a group (White, Black, Latino, Women, Age, Cancer victims) is little different than a bias held towards a particular position or point of view (my cancer example). People act and react, vote and don't vote, hold some bias and not others for a variety of  factors (some based in color, s*x, income, etc); simplistic explanations are just that "simplistic."

Answer 16

High schools should provide a mandatory course on voting.  I have removed color, gender and age from my thoughts and will vote for the candidate which best matches my political philosophy.

Answer 17

and what exactly is the question.

Answer 18

Im not a woman or black, but I can say that i supported NONE of the democrat candidates. I didnt pick McCain in the primaries. I was holding my nose and voting for him because I do not like Obama at all. Palin makes a vote for McCain easier for me. I like what she stands for and what she has accomplished. She has complimented the ticket by bringing more conservative values while bing willing to take on politics as usual, even within her own party.

Answer 19

Politics is a game.

   The people running have advisors telling them how to walk, talk and project an image that will "sell" well. These carefully-contrived personas are made to appeal to whatever trend the polls tell them is currently popular.

   The election process is so focused on characters on purpose; it allows politicians skirt over the issues and avoid making promises that they can't keep.

    That is the nature of the beast, and I don't think it'll change anytime soon.