Presidential Elections
The presidential elections are still months away, but it seems most everything about them has already been decided. Both major parties have their candidates and there is already talk of possible vice presidential candidates. For the average American, and I count myself one of them, who cares.
The candidates have been chosen before even half the eligible voters had a chance to have their say. With caucases, primaries and the like, a small group of voters, have decided what the majority of us will have to choose from when November rolls around. When will this process actually be changed to work! Why do we need round-the-country caucases and primaries when a September nationwide primary would do. New Hampshire looks forward to its once every four years bonanza, but its time they find another source of income. At this point, the only groups scrutinizing the candidates are the lobbyists trying to decide which horse to back (financially of course) that is most likely to be elected and provide them with the "in" they need to get upcoming legislation passed or squashed.
As for the chosen candidates, neither of them excite me. Gore is a bore (sorry for the pun) and Bush leans a bit too far to the right to make me comfortable. The last 8 times I voted in presidential elections, it was "hold you nose and vote for the least objectionable candidate" and it looks like the record will be unbroken again this time.
When will the parties gets some common sense and stop trying to one upsmanship the other.
I say get rid of the party system. Have all candidate enter a September primary at-large. The top two vote getters are in the big show, the November elections.
11/5/00
( 569 )
© Copyright 2000-03 www.mypov.org - All rights reserved.