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**icerrelmCam** · 01-14-2007, 09:09 PM

Wait a minute, shouldn't you be voting for the "candidate himself" anyway? That's what's wrong with America, people are into labels and don't really look at the candidate they're voting for.

Yes, it should be that way, but there are a lot of people who just go into the voting booth and vote a straight party ticket without even knowing what the candidates stand for. In Pennsylvania we have an option of just pressing one button to vote the entire party ticket and a ton of people do it where I vote at. They assume because they are a member of the party they support that they share the same ideas.

I think it's fascinating that a whole block of evangelicals were surprised to see that Bush hasn't done anything about the environment because they just figured he stood for that because they stood for that. Where did you get the idea that Evangelicals voted for Bush because they thought he was an environmental steward? I have never heard this claim made before.

They were toeing a party line that was imaginary and weren't really looking at the candidates themselves. It happens all too often. If we got rid of political parties and had people just run as individuals then voters would be forced to learn about what they stand for before voting for someone.

01-14-2007, 09:09 PM	#6
icerrelmCam Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 467 Senior Member	Wait a minute, shouldn't you be voting for the "candidate himself" anyway? That's what's wrong with America, people are into labels and don't really look at the candidate they're voting for. Yes, it should be that way, but there are a lot of people who just go into the voting booth and vote a straight party ticket without even knowing what the candidates stand for. In Pennsylvania we have an option of just pressing one button to vote the entire party ticket and a ton of people do it where I vote at. They assume because they are a member of the party they support that they share the same ideas. I think it's fascinating that a whole block of evangelicals were surprised to see that Bush hasn't done anything about the environment because they just figured he stood for that because they stood for that. Where did you get the idea that Evangelicals voted for Bush because they thought he was an environmental steward? I have never heard this claim made before. They were toeing a party line that was imaginary and weren't really looking at the candidates themselves. It happens all too often. If we got rid of political parties and had people just run as individuals then voters would be forced to learn about what they stand for before voting for someone.
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