>> What's wrong with "One Man <person>, One Vote"?
Nothing, in theory. The problem comes when you have sizable numbers of people who are voting without the slightest idea what the candidates stand for -- either because one candidate is a good liar or because they just don't care.
There is also a fundamental problem in that college-aged kids are new to the process and generally haven't been through enough elections to realize their nature. That is, a Kerry can get on TV and say, "Bush will reinstate the draft", when there isn't a shred of evidence to suggest it (and, in fact, that it is Kerry's OWN party pushing legislation to do so). These kinds of inflammatory remarks, while not permissable, for example, in a court of law, are the very basis for some politicians' candidacies. Kerry is a perfect example:
- Bush will reinstate the draft
- Bush cut taxes on the wealthiest among us
- Bush lied about the war
- Bush will privatize social security
- Bush's tax cut on the wealthiest 1% would have been enough to save Social Security
- Bush allowed 380 Tons of weapons to get away from us (when in fact, it was 220 Tons and amounts to less than 1/2 of 1% of the weapons that were actually destroyed)
- Kerry would have created a "coalition". He's in touch with "world leaders".
Many of these kids don't understand that a politician can just lie through his teeth without regard for any factual basis, whatsoever.
It puts a guy like Bush, who runs a campaign of truth and integrity, at a huge disadvantage. If one just looks at the list of Kerry lies about Bush and compares it with the [nonexistent] list of Bush lies about Kerry, you really get the picture pretty quickly. But people don't take time to do it. And the media chose sides very early on, which makes it almost impossible for a conservative with scruples to get elected. I hope Bush makes it, but it will be a squeaker. |
