Election Day 2008 – US
Approximately a half a day behind my current time, the 2008 presidential election in the US will begin. According to news sources and polls, the front runners are senators Barack Obama (Democrat) and John McCain (Republican). Are they the only choices? Of course not.
The Official Candidates
Just because the two senators mentioned garnered all the publicity during their respective campaigns, they're not the only people running for President of United States. There's a list of all the candidates, along with their running mates (for vice-president), their parties and their websites at Wikipedia's "United States presidential election, 2008".
If you're an American, you owe it to yourself to investigate each and every candidate before casting your vote. If you don't like the choices you're given, you have the opportunity to "write in" the name or names of the people you'd prefer to see in office.
Cast an Educated Vote
I wrote, at one time, that I hate politics. My position hasn't changed. I vote based on who I think will do a better job of serving the country, not based on some political affiliation. I will not tell you who to vote for or why and I won't tell you who I vote for or why. That decision is solely up to you.
I urge you, however, to cast an educated vote. Don't vote with your emotions or along party lines just for their sakes alone. Think about the next four years and make sure you're going to be as comfortable with your choices at the end of those four years as you are today.
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I agree with you RT. I hate the idea that someone would vote for a candidate solely because of their political party. If you are going to vote it should at least be based on the candidate and not their affiliates.
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hi RT, You're right. Americans have other choices besides just Obama or McCain. Another choice is DON'T VOTE!
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PS. I swear I wrote my latest post before I came here and read your post. I guess it's just proof that great minds think alike.
PPS. Can you and do you cast an absentee ballot in the US election?
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I could vote on an absentee ballot, but I didn't receive one this time. Typical of Philippines mail.
By the way, one of your links in that article is fubar.
If the only point that comes across to people reading this post is the importance of getting your voice heard by VOTING for your candidate of choice, than that is all anyone can ask for.
I participated in early voting last week so my vote has already been cast. We'll see who wins tomorrow night, but I'm pretty sure already who is going to win. Nope, I'm not gonna tell ya who I voted for. Vote!
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Good advice. Party politics is so silly.
As an expat it's hard to keep up with my own country. I was barely aware there was an election. I didn't vote.
Do you keep up with US political news, RT?
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I try not to, but it keeps imposing itself on me.
I think Ralph Nader is the best candidate. I dont need to conform to the two party system.
For me, Obama seems to be the most different of the lot of US presidents you've had over the years.
McCain seems to be a carbon copy of George W. Shrub.
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i do hope that many americans decide to vote in the coming election. whatever happens, it will be a historic vote. they might potentially have their first african american president, or first female vice president.
these past 8 years have not been very good ones for the united states, i feel. and then there's the financial crisis. at least by voting, a person chooses to play a part in moving the country forward from where it is.
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i hope Obama will win.
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I think this election is going to be pretty close but I think Obama will win by a small margin. It will be interesting times ahead as everyone will have high expectations for change.
American politics are of interest here in the UK. I read an interesting article on Obama recently that suggests he has a long, uphill battle ahead if he becomes President – the economy and foreign affairs being at the forefront of the major headaches. Interesting time ahead on both sides of the Atlantic!
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The sad truth is that most people will be voting out of fear and ignorance, not education.
Ron Paul should have been on the ballot! I'm not going to vote this year I don't think. Ralph Nader has great ideas and is smart but I'm not convinced he should be president.
We'll see if I change my mind in the next few hours.
We will always have parties (usually just two) and negative campaigning as long as we have plurality voting. Score voting (http://scorevoting.net) would allow us to rationally choose between more than two candidates the same way that Olympic judges can choose between multiple gymnasts.
I agree with Dan. Learn the facts!!!
I voted for Obama. It'll be interesting to see how the electoral map ends up being.
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I voted for Obama because he's the best man for the job. No, I did not look in to the smaller candidates, but I don't see a point to that unless you are dissatisfied with both main candidates, and I have never been more satisified with a Democratic candidate in my life.
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I hate when someone choses to vote based solely on the candidate's platform. It is more important to look at their credentials and goals.
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I totally agree with you Dan. But, I voted McCain because I know that he is the best for that position. Sad that he never won.
i agree with obama cuz middle class is the one hu needs more help rather than rich ppl but now the election is over we should move forward as Americans
god bless us all
The 2008 election in the United States of America has finally come to an end. I just hope you all have thought long and hard about whom to cast your vote for last Election Day. I'd sure love to think everyone did, but I'm not so sure anymore. Most people think harder about whether or not they have to take out a payday advance.
Case in point is this audio excerpt from the Howard Stern Show reposted by BPM DJ's in Pittsburgh, PA. Roving Reporter Sal went out to gather man-on-the-street interviews to see how many people supported Obama or McCain. The underlying motive was to see if they supported Obama simply because he is black. The comedia magnae is that his polling point was Harlem, NYC. His trick is even more telling – he reverses the candidates' positions, so that it would seem that Obama's policies were actually McCain's, and McCain's Obama's. The people he spoke to preferred the actual platform of John McCain, and the policies that he attributed to McCain (which are actually Obama's) were the ones nobody wanted anything to do with. I hope you all thought long and hard before voting. I sincerely hope, my fellow Americans that you did not just jump on the bandwagon.
Obama has won it all, whether it is sympathy of the people or the seat of president in he united states. In the the words of Obama "The change has come to America", shows that there's going to be something never been happen to the US for a long time, "a change".
Unfortunately the only thing that is "changing" in the government is that they are on a world class power grab and paving the way with the almighty dollar. With all these free handouts the government gets a leg in the door to private industry and that is very dangerous. If the government manages small business the way they piddled away social security the dollar will be literally worthless in about a decade.
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