as if there weren't enough election opinions...
before you develop your opinions, obama wasn't my first choice for democratic candidate, i was severely disappointed in mccain for republican candidate as well, but what i want to say has less to do with who you or I originally had in mind for presidential candidates... it has more to do with the mindset of the voters I saw and heard about personally from each camp, and how that reflected on the person they were campaigning for... that being said, ultimatly, for right or wrong in the end, i chose obama, like alot of my generation...
i made a point earlier, mccain was giving his concession speech, and every time he said obamas name his supporters booed and he told them to stop that, we need to unite, and i said you know, this is why they lost, and didn't capture our generation... the negativity...
his supporters focused on the negatives of obama, and spreading fliers in black neighborhoods telling them if they had parking tickets and warrants they would be arrested at the polls and stuff... while obama and his supporters focused on what we needed to do to make things better, not all this negativity and single issue nonsense...
things are changing, you can't win an election by just saying you are against or for one issue, or being mean and spreading negativity, you need to actually encompass everything not focus on one or two things, and talk BS on the competition, our generation doesn't wanna hear that...
we want to hear less about why you think they are a bad person, and more about what you are going to do to fix things and how you plan to make a difference... gone are the times of elections decided over one or two issues, taking a stand on one subject and following that wave to the end, times are different and more complicated, the issues are tightly wrapped around each other and confusing, but one opinion does not define you as a person...
another thing that influenced my opinion was a piece i saw about wired.com having a debate between the mccain and obama campaign, not with both of them there personally, being a week or two ago it was too close to the election, so they were going to have representatives from each campaign do the debate... at the several hours before the event (which sold out ticket wise) mccain camp canceled the debate, apparently after having trouble securing someone to do the debate within the camp, they had more important things to do at the last minute then show up for it... the representative was supposed to be Douglas Holtz-Eakin, an economic advisor, At 1pm he was on MSNBC attacking Obama, trying to tie him to George Bush's economic policies...
That is the core of the problem in a nutshell, i know to alot of the older generations technology isn't important, but it's not like they were asked to come down personally, just send a representative down to talk about some of your standpoints and opinions, to cancel at the last minute to go and trash talk in my opions defines the problems wi the political machine in general, don't debate the issues, just sling mud...
add to that the fact that our general embraces technology as well, data moves at the speed of light, and so do our lives, news travels the world over in a heart beat, text messaging, twitter, email and myspace, like it or not, they are a big part of the world as it is now, you have to have some views on it, simply not talking about it and ignoring technology and change, does not make it go away...
as wired.com reported "Spinning is easy; debating is hard. And defending John McCain’s record on broadband deployment, spectrum issues, and net neutrality is particularly hard. “If I was voting on technology issues only, even I wouldn’t support McCain,” said one Republican who I interviewed while researching the scorecard."
i made a point earlier, mccain was giving his concession speech, and every time he said obamas name his supporters booed and he told them to stop that, we need to unite, and i said you know, this is why they lost, and didn't capture our generation... the negativity...
his supporters focused on the negatives of obama, and spreading fliers in black neighborhoods telling them if they had parking tickets and warrants they would be arrested at the polls and stuff... while obama and his supporters focused on what we needed to do to make things better, not all this negativity and single issue nonsense...
things are changing, you can't win an election by just saying you are against or for one issue, or being mean and spreading negativity, you need to actually encompass everything not focus on one or two things, and talk BS on the competition, our generation doesn't wanna hear that...
we want to hear less about why you think they are a bad person, and more about what you are going to do to fix things and how you plan to make a difference... gone are the times of elections decided over one or two issues, taking a stand on one subject and following that wave to the end, times are different and more complicated, the issues are tightly wrapped around each other and confusing, but one opinion does not define you as a person...
another thing that influenced my opinion was a piece i saw about wired.com having a debate between the mccain and obama campaign, not with both of them there personally, being a week or two ago it was too close to the election, so they were going to have representatives from each campaign do the debate... at the several hours before the event (which sold out ticket wise) mccain camp canceled the debate, apparently after having trouble securing someone to do the debate within the camp, they had more important things to do at the last minute then show up for it... the representative was supposed to be Douglas Holtz-Eakin, an economic advisor, At 1pm he was on MSNBC attacking Obama, trying to tie him to George Bush's economic policies...
That is the core of the problem in a nutshell, i know to alot of the older generations technology isn't important, but it's not like they were asked to come down personally, just send a representative down to talk about some of your standpoints and opinions, to cancel at the last minute to go and trash talk in my opions defines the problems wi the political machine in general, don't debate the issues, just sling mud...
add to that the fact that our general embraces technology as well, data moves at the speed of light, and so do our lives, news travels the world over in a heart beat, text messaging, twitter, email and myspace, like it or not, they are a big part of the world as it is now, you have to have some views on it, simply not talking about it and ignoring technology and change, does not make it go away...
as wired.com reported "Spinning is easy; debating is hard. And defending John McCain’s record on broadband deployment, spectrum issues, and net neutrality is particularly hard. “If I was voting on technology issues only, even I wouldn’t support McCain,” said one Republican who I interviewed while researching the scorecard."