campaign issues

[bonsaye]

Previously, I would debate with people that the national leader doesn't matter so much; what really counts is putting the right men and women in Congress. This time around, I am beginning to disagree with myself. Even if he's just a figurehead, the national leader still matters! I am processing this now...

chippa linked me to the following quiz, which

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[everbrighter]

I found when I was doing candidate surveys in my own run that the answer choices provided even to the candidates were very limited and set out to polarize the issues along a bias relevant to the agenda of the organization putting out the survey. There were some surveys that I opted not to respond to because they would have given a very wrong impression of my views and didn't allow room for comments.

One of the difficulties in this particular quiz is the difference between state level and federal level issues. I may support a particular act on the state level but feel the federal government has no business touching it. Since the presidential election is mainly a question of federal level items (except where the federal government may be seeking to usurp power from or return it to the state governments) I have to answer according to my beliefs on how it should be handled on the federal level which may be very different from how I believe it should be handled on the state level, ya know?
eg: on the federal level I think there should be no law regarding abortion (except perhaps to define it as a state level issue), but on the state level I am adamantly pro-life. On a federal level questionnaire, I may appear pro-choice, but that would be a misrepresentation.

Man, you didn't need that lecture, lol!

Haha! Now people are trying to talk me into running as a delegate. I don't know if the Florida election process works the same, but, here in PA at least, who the delegates want to see win matters more than who the electorate actually votes for. So it's a critical role and we need as many people as possible in delegate positions, but I'm not sure it's something I can do right now :/

[bonsaye]

Oooooooh, good points. Doing the quiz again and considering federal vs. state powers, the rankings are ... darn! Same front-runners, they're just shuffled in their rankings. Why can't we all get along. Hahaha! :-P

[bonsaye]

Your system is better. Florida delegates vote with the electorate, which makes me ask, what's the point?! :-(

[everbrighter]

LOL! To me your system makes much more sense! What's the point in me voting if the delegate is just going to pick whoever he likes anyway?!

[bonsaye]

Because the delegates serve as a check-and-balance for the idiotic we-the-people! Hah, you can tell I don't have a lot of confidence in the American public.

[everbrighter]

Hehe, and you can tell I don't have a lot of trust in they-the-government ;p