While looking for interesting articles on the Washington post web site. I came across the election ’08 category. There was a link to this page that could tell you the candidate your views were most similar to. I decided to try this out. In my opinion, Obama and Clinton are two of the most publicized candidates out there. Because of that I have heard very little about any of the other democratic candidates. After taking the quiz, they show the results in a bar graph and the larger the bar the more similar you are to that certain candidate. Shockingly I was more compatible with someone who I had never even heard of, Bill Richardson.
Not that I do not agree with many of the arguments of Obama and Clinton. I believe that their different characteristics than all presidents past, like skin color and gender, cause many people to only look at them for our future because Americans are tolerant and we can adapt to new ideas. Not that I do not want America to become diverse in all aspects, I just feel that because some is diverse or different, their odds at wining should be the same as everyone else. I believe that theses candidates are using their characteristics for publicity and not allowing any more room for other candidates to be in the spotlight.
Just because a candidate is more diverse does not mean they should be valued over other candidates.
2 comments:
i agree with you josh that most of the president candidates i know are just the ones publicized and i understant that half of the campaighn trail is advtiersing yourself but what i dont understand is how if a presidential candidate is not exactly rich or can not exactly have enough money to have a campain commitee or how actally the governemtn does really have a say in who the candidates are or not, so at the end are we really picking are next president or is it picked for us through brain-washing ads and the governements bias;s
Josh,
Good work here! You're certainly right that most people vote on the basis of many criteria apart from policy positions. I like the way you personalized this entry by stating your hypothesis and then offering the surprise results.
There's a lot of talk of Richardson as a VP candidate to balance the ticket if a Northerner like Clinton or Obama wins.
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