Presidential Foul Play: Tricks Some Candidates Use to Get More Votes

Running a successful presidential campaign depends on many things. It depends on charisma, character and wisdom. It depends on expressing your ideas and goals to the people in ways they can understand and relate to. It depends on the media as a channel to deliver these ideas to the people. But are you 100-percent sure that who you're voting for isn't using foul play to make him or herself stand out?

Slander:
Too often a presidential candidate may not make his (or her) opinions known because he is too hung up on explaining an incorrect rumor or something that happened in his past.

Rumor: Barack Obama would not represent America well because he is Muslim.
Truth: Barack Obama is not Muslim, and religion has nothing to do with how well a President would lead a nation. A late 2007 CBS News Survey reported that eight in 10 people did not know what religion Obama was. In total, only 1% actually knew he is a Christian.

Overall: If the President will be representing you and your country for the next 4 years, he/she deserves to have a voter who doesn't base his/her vote solely on a chain email they received the morning of the election.

Redistricting: President Bush as well as other Presidents, have exploited loopholes that allow them to redistrict areas. Redistricting allows the President to remark political borders, solely for the concern of nullifying the opponent's votes. By doing so, the President could win a region which he would have otherwise lost.

Popular Terms: Many Presidential Candidates will take sound bytes from other candidates and run them on the television in quick advertisements. These ads are designed to distort the view of the target candidate. By doing "oppositional research" and picking out certain facts that would make a candidate "seem" unfit, the trickster candidates are able to easily turn away undecided voters. Don't be fooled by these sound bytes, don't take any kind of advertisement as truthful.