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Ashen15

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July 6th, 2007 12:53 PM

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An American's Responsibility

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Primary elections are JUST as important as the General elections, but so FEW people pay attention to them (and don’t forget local government!). Only 60% of eligible voters cast votes in the 2004 election. Out of that, it was nearly a 49% to 51% split. People making any declaration that half the country believes this or half the country believes that are only making a statement for about 25-30% of our nation.

Government is a trickle UP process. If you support living in a democracy, you need to be a part of it. From local elections with referendums for schools or other things that affect education, ordinances, and taxes, to your presidential elections.

While it may seem ridiculous that campaigning is taking off for next year’s election so early, this should be taken as an opportunity to learn more about candidates and to help raise awareness of the election.

The media can be quite biased, on both sides of the line. But presidential elections are some of the most straightforward portrayals of candidates.

I’m encouraging all of you not only to be more aware of the electoral process, but to also write your local representatives demanding to see changes in the debate process.

Personally, I would like to see the following:

Candidates not being allowed to discuss the viewpoints of other candidates during a debate. No names. No mudslinging.

Begin the debate with a 5 minute pronouncement of what your base foundation is as a candidate.

When asked to discuss controversial issues, you get 5 minutes to explain what (not WHO) you think is wrong with the issue, and the rest of the time is to be spent discussing what you plan to do to fix it.

Please forward this on as an e-mail, forum post, or bulletin.

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