How Much Do Americans Really Know About The Voting Process?

How much do Americans really know about the voting process? Do Americans take sufficient time to do their homework when it comes to voting? These are some of the questions that have been coming up lately and here are some websites to help Americans in their decision process.

http://www.centerforpolitics.org/reform/nssreport_voting.pdf.

http://helpingamericansvote.org/

http://www.fairvote.org/?page=875

http://www.tiresias.org/guidelines/e_voting.htm

http://academic.udayton.edu/RACE/04NEEDS/98newburg.htm

Barack Talks About His Mother As A Political Tactic For Pity?

According to this article about Barack Obama and the history of his mother written in Time website By Amanda Ripley/Honolulu on Wednesday April 9, 2008 was very interesting, but is this just another tactic to attract more voters out of pity? Is this article going to cause even more controversy and mislead the American voters and American non-would be voters to vote again for all the wrong reasons? This is when you can really see the staged show and the manipulation these candidates strongly believe that they have and therefore can pick and chose these convenient diverse roles for obvious reasons and especially when appropriate for their own hunger or image.

We need to start questioning and re-evaluating exactly why is it that is now that this is so important and lets face it if Americans do not take this candicacy a bit more serious we may be heading for disaster. It is okay for candidates to talk about their upbringing and about family history, but exactly how is this going to help solve the most serious issue of all "War". I even started to feel pity for Obama, but when I got up to this part in the article, "Ironically, the person who mattered most in Obama's life is the one we know the least about—maybe because being partly African in America is still seen as being simply black and color is still a preoccupation above almost all else. There is not enough room in the conversation for the rest of a man's story". I mean it seems as if the article started talking about his mothers history and his upbringing and ended up again with the 'color' issue...

Sincerely, I really do not feel that 'color' is a main issue anymore in this most complicated race, it is based the fact that basically we are experiencing a mix of poor issues and losing our main focuses. You can read the article and you can decide for yourself the importance of your voting process...

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1729524,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics

Americans and the Voting Process

Are Americans taking the time to fully investigate and educate themselves about their favorite candidates before the final voting process? With all the debates and frenzy that the media has created about the 2008 democratic race and because of the candidates: a White American woman: Hilary Clinton and Black Kenyan/White American man: Barack Obama in the democratic party there is much to be considered. It seems to be taking Americans focus away from the correct voting process, the real issues we are facing, and if whoever is elected will be able to deal with really targeting the main problems.

The reason I find the voting process has to be taken serious is, because of facts that the most important issues will be ignored. Americans will have to face the fact that as a country we have to be aware of the importance when it comes to literacy and the kind of individual decision making when one does not have a proper education or politically involved family. Americans will have to individually take responsibility for their candidacy voting, investigate candidate backgrounds thoroughly, and mainly educate themselves through the media to be able to consider why exactly they are voting.

Here is where the media and the polls play a significant role and shaping the ways Americans think. So basically just how do we start to consider educating illiterate voters in our communities? If Americans are just focused on the gender and ethnicity in the race, then what happens to the international, domestic, economical, and social warfare issues that are supposed to be taken into consideration when finally in the voting booth?