Your research and effort to learn about each candidate, their intentions and their proclivities is worthy of 
praise. I’ve watched all the networks and nearly all of the debates. But even with all this information and examination and investigation, I still don’t know who will win my vote.But even if I haven’t found a candidate who embodies everything I’m looking for, I can promise you I will still vote for somebody come November.
I truly believe every vote counts and if I had to pick between Hannibal Lechter, The Joker, the Wicked Witch of the East and the Wizard, I’d still vote. I’d make a choice. But right now I couldn’t tell you what name would earn my inky stain.
To begin with, I don’t believe half of anything said by any candidate during election season.
I look forward to the day when the rancorous rhetoric calms down, when the primaries are over and the final candidates have to be more serious. Maybe when the delegates duties are done, the state-by-state campaigns are over and the conventions are a memory, I will be able to make a decision.
Although, I worry it won’t be made until I walk into the voting booth. None of the current candidates inspire me with the passion I see in so many others’ social media posts and in the endorsements on the Sunday talk shows. It’s truly the strangest political campaign I’ve ever experienced.
The folks who have found their candidate seem so certain. But sometimes it gets ugly.
In recent weeks I’ve seen more than few posts about folks either “unfriending” or being “unfriended” because of a political disagreement.
I worry that all of this will have a terrible impact on future presidential elections.
Washington and the major political parties seem so surprised by the people’s votes in the primaries. If nothing points to how out of touch Washington has been, surely this election proves it.
The winnowing down of the candidates to Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders are indicators of just how angry the electorate is at the way government has been running (or more accurately, hasn’t been running).
We the people are mad.
We the people are ticked off and we aren’t going to take it anymore. So what does this mean for the future?
If we elect to the presidency someone with very little experience in government, someone that most of their own party hates or someone untrustworthy or unlikely to be able to create a coalition to get anything to pass, does anyone truly believe that government will start working again?
And if we remain stalled, log-jammed, unmoving, can you even imagine what that would mean for 2020?
Yikes.
very true but oh so sad.
I’m in the same boat you’re in. I have no idea who I would vote for right now either. It’s pretty sad.
Picture a tombstone: Here lies USA, 1776-2016, “United we stand, divided we fall.” We fell.
Well, I know one thing for sure–for me it definitely won’t be either of the current two Republican front runners! What a sad state of affairs politics have devolved into. 🙁
It is sad, isn’t it? And that bothers me, I want to be excited, but I’m not.
The only part of the current process that has me miffed is the inability of the parties at hand to compromise and come to resolutions. Outside influences that convinced certain elected officials to sign “promises” to not do this … and to not do that are a big part of the stalemate. Otherwise, I think this is a great nation full of opportunity for those who earnestly seek it and with realistic expectations.
Agreed – this is a great nation full of opportunity!
What worries me is we are getting to the point where the candidates stop attacking those on their own side and start attacking across the aisle. Then we might see real hatred for each other.
My worry is how would any of them respond to recent attacks in Brussels and Pakistan because the time is getting near to move on this situation. We cannot sit back too much longer and say “Oh my God! That is awful!” The sitting members of Congress and the Senate scare me just as much. All these people and the candidates are accountable to US! Let’s hold them to it!
If you really want the research, the history that has led us to this 2016 election, read This is Your Government on Drugs by Michael Page (available from Amazon and e-books or go to http://www.govondrugs.com). It describes the dysfunction and gridlock that grip out government and examines issues affected by the political games. We need a president that isn’t owned by the moneyed interests, but more importantly, we need a third party in Congress to act on behalf of all Americans, not just those with money.
We need to start over. The current elected officials have not been doing their jobs. They’ve done nothing! I am totally disheartened by the whole process this year. Enough is enough!
My vote likely won’t be FOR a candidate, rather AGAINST one.