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What is the most important thing to you when you vote for President of the United States?

You can be specific or broad. If you want to mention side issues, go ahead, but I really doubt people vote for a President based on how much their wife makes, how many pantsuits they own or what their bowling score was. Is it a personality trait? Is it their record of getting things done? Is it their ability to Communicate? Is it their education, IQ? Is it their party? I could go on, but you get the point, let me know what is important to you.

I ask that you not answer if you do not vote.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Someone who follows the Constitution and Bill of Rights religiously, and would never do anything to alter them in any way. No stupid interpretations or useless laws that make no sense. It's written in black and white plain and simple. I also want my country to have the strongest military as well, you start messing with the security then were all screwed.

  • 5 years ago

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    For myself, each election and each candidate is considered independent from the partisan party. I would tend to discount the viability of any extreme to the far far left or the far far right.

    Generally I feel by the time it gets to the arena of the partison convention the field has been narrowed and in the end, whoever does win will not actually send the country down in flames. But this year we are approaching the DNC with a person in the front-running who has proven his unsuitability for the office of the President of the United States. He has proven this by his own judgment in a mentor; his loyalty to a racist minister who appears to be a lunatic with his crazy ideas about the HIV virus, the African Jesus (he was a Jew), the God Damn American and all the other things we've heard.

    This contender has a wife who is unsuitable, in my not so humble opinion. She is a loud mouth, a bully, a hateful racist and would be an unending embarrassment as First Lady using the front steps and living room of the White House as her platform for spewing evil.

    I think that Hillary Clinton would work hard and most likely be a very good President, probably serving two terms. I think Bill would be an asset behind the scenes. I don't think either are perfect people, but I think their loyalties are 100% for America.

    I believe John McCain to be an honorable man, and very capable with this good Congress of being our President. His age is a concern, but no sitting or retired President has died until well into their 80s or 90s since Lyndon Johnson, and he was retired....having suffered health problems since the 1950s; and dying about 1972, I think without looking that up. McCain's mother is out on the campaign trail in her 90s, his father was a patriot who did die young, but the indications are that John McCain is healthy. A Vice-Presidential choice is always important, as they say...."the Presidency is a heartbeat away". And JFK was young, if you remember, and I do.

    I think I judge the one I will vote for the Presidency on their worth as a person, their loyalty to the country, their past experience and my confidence that they would act appropriately in an emergency.

    Vote for Hillary now, or McCain in November Nobama

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    After watching America vote George W. Bush in office twice, who knows what they consider important in choosing a president? Now that one can see the facts and results of George W. and his failed policies...what do voters consider..it must be the political party they are affiliated with, they vote that way no matter who the party has as a nominee! Will America continue to vote for and elect more of the Bush-Clinton family dictatorship? When two families dominate the political arena and accupy the "White House", year after year, term after term......Americans are being controlled, manipulated through various means of deception, distortion and trickery! Every year, the Democrats and Republicans start out with a large-field of candidates with great idea's, but in the end, it is always a Bush or Clinton that gets elected and America ends up with 8 years of more of the same! Where the bigger problem lies is government under these two families has America in a pickle. Each term we are not better off....the National debt is larger...America keeps bleeding blood and treasure...we have one-sided trade agreements that are anti-American worker...our borders have allowed an invasion of illegal people entering in and out of this nation at will...the U. S. Congress cannot pass legislation to address this issue or Social Security which is going broke in the near future...health care is still not within reach of many Americans, but socialized medicine may not be a good answer to address it without actually ruining what good is in place at this time...our military is and has been misused once again...not in war, but in occupations, where there is no-clear cut chance of achieving victory and our troops are just sitting ducks in a live shooting gallery! Iraq was nothing short of a big, distorted lie and mistake and like Vietnam it shall be remembered as that by those that judge history of our nation in future years and generations! I vote, but I get sick and tired of not having a real choice to pick from instaed of having just what Big-Business want on the ballot! This voting for the lesser of two-evils is getting old! America needs some kind of real change for the better, not more of the same as it has got us nowhere, just deeper in debt! George W. Bush has added over 4 trillion more dollars to the national debt...so much for his conserving money, careful spending of tax-payer dollars? He has threw away more dollars in an unnecessary war in Iraq, than what all the others did, put together in their terms in office! Conservative...what is conservative about President Bush...his willingness to admit the truth about anything on any subject? When George W. Bush wins two terms, I am not sure what they voted him in on concerning his abilities to lead this nation. The truth is elections in America today, must have some kind of method to the madness as we keep electing inept government, that has everybody's best interests at heart, except the American citizens who they supposedly serve! Anymore I wish I knew what was most important as there are so many important issues being ignored within this nation, America's demise cannot be far off on the horizon unless real change comes and real change for the better comes soon!

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  • 1 decade ago

    A. Courage

    B. Tenaciousness

    C. Stay on message and articulate it well

    D. Put the small town folks on the same level of all voters as IMPortant

    E. Not demenaing

    F. not a Whiner

    G. Great Fighter

    H. Commitment

    I. Dedication

    J. Not afraid of controversy or issues

    K. Tough and not ego driven

    L. Not rock star persona

    M. FAithful to their family inspite of the odds

    N. Not afraid to face controversy inthe face like Newsmax and make them a beleiver.

    Go Hillary No.1 Sportsmavericks Mavericks that will not quit...

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    If he is Pro-Life.

    Newspaper headlines declared a tragic milestone: the overall death toll from the five-year war in Iraq has reached more than 4,000. Also, for every 15 troops wounded in Iraq, there has been one fatality.

    The war in Iraq will undoubtedly remain a key issue in the Presidential race. Newsmen and newswomen in particular are likely to focus much attention on that 4,000 fatality figure.

    Yet, I doubt whether a single questioner in a Presidential debate will point out a troubling truth: nearly that many American babies die in a single day from abortion.

    One day--nearly 4,000 deaths. A five-year war compressed into a single 24-hour period.

    Who will dare ask about an exit strategy for the war going on on our domestic front? Who will interview the grieving post-abortive mothers and fathers? Who will ask the grandparents where their grandchildren have gone? Who will grill candidates at the federal, state, and local level about their support for the war on unborn children and their mothers?

    The casualties in this war will not be buried with honors. In fact, they won't receive a funeral at all.

    In all likelihood, they won't even have a name, unless their mothers, drawing on their inner courage, attend a post-abortion healing retreat.

    Newscasts chronicle the struggles soldiers returning from battle sometimes face in dealing with the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder. Women undergoing abortion often have their own post-traumatic disorder to deal with, a disorder they may try to numb through drugs and alcohol.

    Where are the discussions about public health policy to deal with the emotional trauma of abortion? How are women to re-adjust to school and work after losing a child in the abortion war?

    The next time candidates come knocking on your door asking for your vote, ask them what they intend to do to end the abortion war. The unborn children of America deserve an answer.

  • Fix our damn economy! People are going broke just trying to buy groceries and gas to get to work. I do OK and I still cringe at the pump and grocery store, I can't fathom how someone that makes minimum wage or a little more feels. It's getting outta control.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Well the only thing i want is to make sure that the white house land scraper removes all the bushes from the white House

  • 1 decade ago

    Who has my best interests at heart, and who can best lead The USA.

    The interests are the same.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    In everyday life, how they genuinely relate to their fellowman

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