Why I Don't Vote

Your vote counts? Not really. Only if you vote for Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, or John McCain.

If I look at the issues, the people who fit my views are candidates who have no chance in hell of winning. Apparently, Mike Gravel fits my views almost perfectly. My only question is who in the hell is Mike Gravel? I haven't heard of him at all during these 2008 Primaries. Ron Paul is perfect for me on a few issues, but way off on the others.

Basically I would be wasting my vote by voting for either Paul or Gravel. Sure people say every vote counts, but when my candidate loses by 15 million votes my one vote didn't matter at all. Sure I could put together a voter drive for my candidate, then my vote MAY be worth a little something.

Where does that leave me? Making a vote that may just matter a little. A vote for one of the major candidates that I don't agree with on many levels. It leaves me just voting for the lesser of two evils. McCain is too old for me to relate too. Hillary had her chance to make some sort of universal health care but was bought off just like everyone else. Obama would seem to be a good fit, saying he is closer to my age group than the others, you would certainly think he would be the one to bring change, yet we totally disagree on issues I find key.

So here I am, left with really no reason to vote. And if I don't vote I can't complain right? Wrong, I'm an American, that's what we do best.

This two party system is retarded. Why must we choose between Republican and Democrat in the end? The primaries shouldn't be two party. It should be where every single candidate has a chance. We should have debates where every candidate has a forum to state their views. Whoever has the most money shouldn't win. Each state should vote on who they want out of all the candidates, no Rep or Dem primary, just one big one. In the end the top two vote getters should do battle for the Presidency, could be Hillary vs. Obama. It would make much more sense.

But this is America, we don't make sense, unless it makes dollars.

I also don't vote because of the lines. But a local politician once told me to just get an absentee ballot. Least he was honest.