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Last night during the Caucus coverage I heard something very interesting and very disturbing. This has nothing to trying to hate on any candidate or sell any candidate, but this is simply not good. The CNN Hosts were talking about how many people are changing votes because they want to vote for the candidate the has the best chance of winning and more specifically getting Obama out of office. That is totally the wrong reason to vote, the reason to vote is to vote for the candidate that YOU think will best lead the country. A lot of Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, and Rick Santorum supporters ended up voting Romney because of his elect-ability and likely-hood of winning against Obama. There are two things bugging me about this: first, Obama was not THAT awful, he might not have even come in the ballpark of what he promised to do on his campaign, but do they ever? I do not see any formidable reason why voters should not vote for who they actually want to win because of how Obama has performed. Whoever wins the GOP Bid will give Obama a run for his money, even if it is not Romney. The Second thing is, voting for the wrong reasons is why we are in this position. I know for a fact last election a lot of Democrats voted Obama instead of Hilary because they found him more "electable", and for you Republicans switching your votes because of elect-ability, you could find another Obama situation because a candidate might win that is in fact not best suited for the job (not saying that was the case for Obama).
This is a plea, a plea for all of you voters to vote for who you think will be the best President, not who will have the best chance at getting Obama out of office, or you might find yourself in a situation where yet again you are not pleased with your President.
This is a plea, a plea for all of you voters to vote for who you think will be the best President, not who will have the best chance at getting Obama out of office, or you might find yourself in a situation where yet again you are not pleased with your President.