The less significant issues

There were many occasions when voters I spoke to would passionately voice their opinions about the candidates. I always found what they said to be pretty interesting but I noticed that many people were being overly concerned about the wrong things more than the major issues. For example, people would be too worried about Obama wearing a flag pin or how many words McCain would slip up on. These things may be worth taking into consideration but ultimately, the important thing is what these candidates plan to do for the American people. Some voters are actually questioning these candidates patriotism. It does not make sense to ever question a possible president’s patriotism. One does not run for the President of the United States without having a great sense of patriotism. Both candidates are outstanding individuals who have had to overcome many hardships to get to where they are now. Personality and charisma is somewhat important but personality and charisma are not going to affect the people’s everyday lives. These things should not be what a voter solely makes his or her decisions on. There were people I encountered that had no idea what their candidate’s positions on the major issues are. Many told me that the reason they were voting for one was because the other looked a certain way or the other one was just boring. These are issues that are not going to directly affect a person’s life and frankly, those reasons are ridiculous. I can understand that candidates do questionable things at times, but in the end it is better to put the serious issues first and just keep the other less significant things in mind.

P.S. happy birthday to me ;)

The "other" elections

While working with the Colorado Democratic Party, I did not just campaign for the presidential elections. I also had the opportunity to campaign for the Senatorial and Congressional races as well. I was quite surprised to discover the lack of interest and knowledge in the Senate races by many of the voters. Considering the hype for the presidential candidates, it is possible that voters are so caught up in the events pertaining to the presidential elections that they are not paying much attention to the candidates in the other races. In many of our campaign events, I spent a lot of time reminding voters why the Senate elections are so important. Both candidates intend to make a large amount of changes, but they need the majority of support in the Senate to really bring about these changes. It is important that voters do not overlook the Senate races because if they want their candidate to be as effective as they may hope for him or her to be, they must help their candidate get the majority of support in the Senate.