Op-Ed: Do You Really Know Which Candidate Best Represents Your Views?
by okieboy.
Don’t vote for the donkey or the elephant; the man or the woman; the black guy or the white guy; the liberal or the conservative; the governor or the mayor; the left or the right; instead vote the person that can do the job and make the tough decisions.
Before you exercise your precious right to vote, take some time to learn where the candidates really stand. Don’t rely on a few seconds of prime-time, talking head sound bites that have been spun, slanted, and taken out of context. The news too often presents events in such a way as to influence the audience rather than simply inform.
Please don’t vote for a candidate simply because they belong to a certain party or because you are familiar with the name. Please, please don’t cast your vote based upon your feelings for or against George Bush…he is not running for President!
Take a few minutes to go to the websites linked at the end of this piece and answer the questions on a variety of issues. Find out how the candidates line up with your views. You may very well be surprised with the results...I was. Take more than one survey to see if you get the same top tier matches between surveys.
Candidate calculator
Candidate Match Game
Select Smart
These are consequential times and casting an uninformed vote is worse than not voting at all.
Op-Ed: Do You Really Know Which Candidate Best Represents Your Views?
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