Subject: RE: Who would be the best President of USA?Where to start? I’m a somewhat strong supporter of one of the candidates, but I don't want to convince you to vote for someone just because I said so. You need to come to your own conclusion. So I will try to keep my comments as brief and non-partisan as possible and still try to give you some thoughts that will hopefully help you make your decision.
First of all, the debates are not very useful in my opinion. Are you really going to vote for someone just because they were more eloquent in expressing their views during a debate? What if his views do not correspond to yours? And if I have to wait until three weeks before an election to find out what a candidate’s position is on an issue, he doesn’t deserve my vote.
You always have to remember that most (if not all ) candidates for national office try to play toward the middle ground, meaning that Kerry is trying to appear more “conservative” than he is, and Bush is trying to appear more “liberal” than he is. This is especially true in a televised debate just before the election. But when you cut through all of the political crap on both sides and look the candidate’s records, I think you will find that they have opposing views on many of the issues. There are several websites that list their positions on the issues. One of them is http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5993610/. If you look at their positions, you will see on most issues that one of them says this, the other says that. Your job is to decide what YOU believe and select the candidate whose positions are closest to your own.
Hope this helps.
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