Elections Blog

Now days campaigns and elections are quite an affair. They cost millions of dollars and can stretch painstakingly long periods of time. I for one, would make the process go much faster, I feel the process should take no longer than two months, none of this six or seven month, start campaigning primaries in like January and wait until November for the actual election. Secondly, the government is struggling enough, I believe most of the campaign finances should come from primarily public or private donations. Therefore, I would not put a cap. Now I understand that by doing this a chain reaction would occur and perhaps the richest president would make it over the most qualified. But hey, America sometimes votes based on other factors rather than true, quality and experience, more so than they wish to admit, so we may as well save a few dollars in the government. Finally, elections should be completely private. I personally don't really like the idea of a caucus. I believe all votes should be truly in a booth, alone that way all votes are truly heard.

Mitt Romney Campaign

Republican United States Presidential candidate Mitt Romney is the assumed opponent against incumbent President Barack Obama. Obama has had a powerful reign in the past four years and Romney is bold to challenge. Being a conservative myself, I could see myself as a campaign manager for Romney rather than Obama more easily, and after thorough evaluations on previous elections and the current polling data, I would say Romney does have a fair chance at winning the election, however if I was his advisor a couple things I feel would be very important to give him a chance. After reviewing the elections from 1980 to the most recent election, of John McCain vs. Barack Obama of 2008, a couple things stand out. You have to ask yourself  what groups are consistently and diligently republican voters, which are democratic? Which groups seem to fluctuate the most? I would advise Mr. Romney not to worry about African-American or Jewish voters, they have been dominating liberal over the past thirty years and I do not see any signs of change. To campaign for these groups I feel would be a waste of his time. However, religious organizations, caucasian males, and the wealthy are consistently Republican, and Romney being a Mormon, would probably appeal in these areas, therefore I feel their votes would be cast towards him in general anyway. Now we have those in-between, those that have fluctuated the most over the past thirty years. I would say the elderly, the first time voters, the middle class, those that in general seem to be on the fence, those are who he should campaign. Big cities are obviously out, too much time and too much money and they have always gone democrat, likewise rural areas have always gone republican. However suburbs seem to fluctuate, I would recommend hitting those areas hard, likewise poor people will probably vote democratic, where wealthy most like republican, it's the middle class that I would work towards as well. Basically if I was Romney's advisor I would say don't worry about those you can't obtain like Blacks, Jews, and big cities like New York, likewise religious people, caucasian males, and rural areas always seem to vote republican anyway, he should focus on suburbs, the middle class, women, those who are on the fence and if he does he has a shot at the 2012 presidency

Democrats vs. Republicans

It is very clear that elections dominate the local media, and the everlasting race to perfect and improve the United States will continue to force through for all of time I believe. In an election usually two parties with the same goals of improving the United States and create a better quality of life are represented with the occasional third party. However the ways they go about this are what define them. Today a third party called Libertarians share some with both the Democratic and the Republican parties. I believe that Libertarians can side with both in several ways. Libertarians in short strive for little to no government action in social, personal, religious, and economic views. Therefore they would side with Republicans in that they government should cut spending, that people should be accountable and that the government should butt out. They believe in freedom of religion and the ability to express oneself religiously and that is not for the government to decide. However in many social and personal issues they would side more with the Democrats. They believe that issues like gay marriage, abortion, and unmarried sex which are generally very much frowned upon and advocated against in the Republican party are also dismissed by the Libertarians. In general they believe the government should stay out of those issues too, that you should be able to decide and do what you want without the government constantly dictating your life. In short, Democrats generally favor with governmental actions regarding economic issues, however frown on social and moral issues, where the Republicans want the government against social and moral issues however desire the government out of economic actions. Libertarians can easily side with both because they strive for government to cease in all areas, therefore easily the third parties that run today can sway the election results because they take some ideas from one party and some from the other.