Politics can be both very public and personal. When you are voting in November the candidate that you select for president shoud be your personal choice. A black voter has the freedom to elect the Democratic candidate as well as the Republican, regardless of which party is the more desired party amongst black voters. A female voter has the freedom to vote for a male candidate as well as a female one even if her mother is pressuring her to help elect the first female president of the United States. Just remember though, when you receive that $900 medical bill, because you don't have health insurance, ask yourself where the candidate that you voted for stood on the issue of healthcare in America and whether the candidate's healthcare plans were taken into consideration when you voted.
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A Dispute Over The Dream
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"The race thing is so delicate," Nevada Assemblyman Harvey Munford told me. Yet virtually no one I spoke to in the state thought race (or gender, for that matter) would be the determining factor in the presidential contest. Instead, voters said, they were trying to look at the candidates and size up their proposals on their own merits.
When I asked Edwards to give me the strongest argument for his candidacy in light of the two campaigns striving so hard to make their candidates "the first," he spoke of "a huge moral test for the country," one bound up in the nation's ability to see beyond the symbolism to the essence of the candidates themselves. Talk about a dream. Yet it is one of the few dreams that, in the end, may truly have the power to take us to a better place.
© 2008
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