Presidential Race Down the Toilet

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pnaw10
 on 8/29/2008
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Are both major presidential candidates smoking crack?  First, we start off with two major candidates I don’t really like in the first place.  But then Barack Obama avoids the obvious VP choice — Hillary Clinton — and picks Joe Biden.  Then today, John McCain does the exact same thing: skipping his obvious choice — Mitt Romney — to go with some woman from Alaska that nobody (except some Alaskans) has ever heard of.  What the hell is going on here?  How awesome would it be if we could vote “None of the Above” on November 4th, and force the entire process to start over with new people?

3 Responses to “Presidential Race Down the Toilet”

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  1. 1 Mike Gurecki
    8/29/2008 at 3:26 pm

    I am fed up too! I’m voting for bob barr since I couldn’t get ron paul. but bob barr is like ron paul lite… http://www.bobbarr2008.com/

  2. 2 pnaw10
    8/30/2008 at 12:55 am

    That’s all fine and dandy, but I’d never even consider a 3rd party candidate because they never win. Personally, I think it would be great if we just threw out the entire primary process. Weeeeell, that might result in a ballot with 100 names on it. OK, so each party lets their top 3 people on the ballot instead of just one. I don’t know… I just hate how the presidential election always comes down to just two people.

    Our entire voting process is just outdated. The electoral college was OK back in the 1700s and 1800s when the election results had to be counted by hand, there were only 20 or 30 states, and the numbers had to be delivered by Pony Express and so on.

    Today, we have the technology where votes can be counted immediately. Assuming there’s no glitches (and I know that’s a lofty assumption) the entire general election results could be transmitted to Washington within seconds of the last poll closing, and then the results are revealed. There’s no need for the electoral college. There’s no need for parties to have just ONE final candidate. We could easily have an election with 5 or 6 major-party candidates, and have the winner announced by the end of Election Night.

    Screw party unity. You can’t expect one person to perfectly represent the ideals of half the country. Similarly, you can’t expect everyone in the country to follow the beliefs of either party word for word.

  3. 3 Kel
    9/2/2008 at 5:24 pm

    Yeah, “none of the above” would be sweet but then we’d never get a new President! You can never please all of the people all the time. I don’t know if there would ever be two candidates that America would be happy with enough to choose from.

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