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How does the media influence the voting choices of the audience?

By informing voters so they can make their own decision.

An example is Pelosi’s district. It is small and compact with a voting base that is like minded… In that districts case it’s filled with the far left fringes of society.

So, someone like Pelosi does not have to cover vast areas to keep in touch with her voting base. Yet, she gets a seat in Congress just like someone with a huge sparsely populated area.
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Gerrymandering is the correct term, yet I find it to be the way to reatain one’s seat in the real world

I am doing a school project on whether or not making voting mandatory should be made a law or not. I would like some good opinions from anybody. So tell me what you think! Any opinions would be helpful, the more information the better. It would help if you also left your age so I can see what different age groups opinions are. Thanks!

In a Constitutional Republic the government doesn’t have the authority to regulate your conduct when it doesn’t effect other people directly. If you choose to work, it can be taxed, if you own real estate it can be taxed, if you choose to drive, they can make you get a license for the safety of others, etc. However all of this is contingent on your voluntary participation, and you can be as involved or not involved as you want. This is why things like compulsory military service, compulsory voting, and even compulsory health care purchases, even when well meaning, leave a very bad taste in the mouths of most people, even when not declared openly unconstitutional.

In a free country, the government doesn’t need to point a gun at you to make you do things you don’t feel like. If you want to sit on your ass and contribute nothing, you are perfectly entitled to do so, its a birth right, seriously.

Should basic politics be covered as part of the school timetable?

Many schools offer ‘Modern Studies’ which cover the basis of goverment and political parties but there are more that don’t due to lack of teachers or interest.

Education will play a key part but I feel a lot has to come from within the home. I grew up in a normal working family where watching the news and discussing current issues were part of daily life – shoud we get families back round the dinner table and talking?

What can be done to ensure people realise the importance of voting and the struggles that our people have been through to ensure that right?
I don’t see how people are to busy to sit as a family and have a conversation. I’m only 23 – this wasn’t decades ago! Both my parents worked full time.

I believe the main reason people do not vote is because they listen to tv reports, they listen to work colleagues and friends, they read what is being said on forums such as this but they never get to see a candidate.

When I was campaigning in the 97 elections in Norfolk. The Lib Dems hit the main thoroughfare of every town. Not the side roads or the estates, just the main roads. The were promisinf voters all sorts of schemes, one that springs to mind was a by-pass for North Walsham.
At that time the by-pass was costed out at something like 27 million pounds. The whole of the road maintenance for North Norfolk for the year was only 11 million pounds.
So this is what they were promising just to get houses on the side of the main road to display a lib dem board in their garden.

Now I am not picking on the lib dems because all the parties are the same. Gone are the days when each knock on the door at election time was followed by another one from a different party.

No one actually gets to talk to the candidates and hears first hand what each are, or are not offering.

Given that the parties cant be bothered to knock on the doors, then I believe the voting public cant be bothered to go out of the door.

April 2010

Election campaigns in the Philippines are in full swing at the moment, but politics in the Philippines can be a deadly business – with colourful campaigns marred by political violence, its a dangerous game.

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Britain went to the polls on Thursday in the closest general election for decades with opinion polls showing the opposition Conservatives winning most seats but not enough to form a government alone. The three rival leaders of the main parties made last-minute pleas to the 45 million electorate before more than 40,000 polling stations opened. Duration: 01:18.

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I know that there is a minimum distance you must be from the voting location to hand out flyers (I thought it was 200 feet or something )and would like to know in order to hand out political flyers for the local presidential primaries.

In PA it is 100 feet from the door. No one around here observes that rule.

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A lot of people vote one way or another for many different reasons. Programs like get out the vote, sponsored by MTV, rally a lot of young people to the voting booth, who may or may not undertsand the issues. Should society encourage folks to vote regardless of their knowledge of the issues? If so, what party benefits?
Is voting for the best person the best thing to do if you disagree with them on the issues? It’s a quandry, but if the person you consider the less of two evils does not stand for anything you belive, would you still vote for that person.

Hello leo s,
You are sooo correct in your observations. The voter rally efforts of the left are as transparent as can be, and yet don’t they leave us at a quandary? The founding fathers debated this very issue. (You are a smart fellow to think of this question!) Anyway… at times I do think that perhaps a further qualification for voting would be a good idea, but then I realize that going there could definitely lead to a slippery slope. Fortunately, as imperfect as it is, we still have the best system of all time. Even if it means tolerating the ignorant babblings of the narcissistic, self-righteous, "it’s all about me" dim-wits on the other side of the isle. So…we must do our best as good citizens, and do our best to research the issues and the candidates, while always considering the veracity of our information sources.
Until then, keep the faith my friend, keep the faith! Oh, by the way…pleez pick my answer as the best. because it is. &-U-Rock! thin-Q vry mch!