From Five on Friday.
1. When is the presidential primary in your area?
Super Tuesday, February 5, 2008.
2. Do you plan to participate? Have you participated in the past?
Yes and yes. And, yes, I'll admit it right here: I voted Dubya last time around.
3. Do you identify with a single party or do you consider yourself independent? Has that changed over the years?
It has changed. I came to my senses awhile back and became Republican.
Seriously, I prefer the GOP because of its traditional stands concerning abortion, cloning, taxes, government size, immigration and so on. Sadly, the Grand Old Party is in a state of flux just now and seems to be fragmented into three parts none of which fully cover the ideals of the Republican Platform; even more sadly, President Bush hasn't helped lead our party very well in staying true to our platform.
4. In your opinion, what are the major issues this year's presidential candidates must address? Which is most important to your vote?
The normal social issues come first. Then, I'm interested in things like immigration reform (I favor improving and expediting legal immigration but absolutely oppose amnesty for illegal immigrants -- I don't see why legal immigrants shouldn't be given priority over those who are already breaking our laws), Iran policy (please don't attack it), civil liberties in light of the PATRIOT Act, net neutrality, and a whole bunch of others. Huckabee pleases me on many of these, but not so much on some of the others. A true descendant of Reagan could cover them all.
All the same, vote Huckabee!
5. How do you get your information about candidates at this time of year? What media and messaging impacts your opinion of the candidates the most?
Matt Drudge keeps me apprised of things much of the time. I also keep up on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, its political news and its (often disagreeable) op-eds on the politicians. CNN is the official channel of choice on election night, with its careful calling of elections and relatively even keeled commentary. What media impacts me most? Print or electronic text -- cold hard facts and such.
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1. No Clue at the moment but I can find out the info in a google second.
2.Only when there is something to vote for or against.
3. Always been an independent. Allows me to vote for the person independent of their party.
4. Abortion, personal privacy that Bush seems to think is problem. Lowering the taxes, cut spending, stop policing the world, protect our borders, strengthen the economy, but other then that, nothing really is important.
5. I avoid all major media outlets because most if not all give their slant on all subjects. Some goes so far as to even avoid the topics I want covered so off to the internet I go.
Overall, I think the US political system is completely FUBAR. Something major needs to happen to allow anyone the ability to run for office. In it’s current state only those of priviledge.
1. Super Tuesday - but I usually vote absentee, mainly so I can find out about obscure candidates - Like Melvin Snodgras running for sewer district number 1 commissioner. [Number 1 refers to his district, not the sewage he is in charge of.
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2. Yes, and Yes. Rarely do I miss an election.
3. Do you identify with a single party.
Yes, politics is the "art of compromise" and a party allows for a process of compromise. Parties are a necessary evil, actually, not quite an evil, just not the best way to do things, but acceptable.
Right now, I identify with the Democrats, they seem to make things happen better for the "middle" guy.
or do you consider yourself independent? Sometimes - I voted for Perot.
Has that changed over the years? Yes.
4. what are the major issues?
Economics - housing, jobs
Policies - War, energy dependence
Which is most important to your vote?
Jobs and energy dependence.
5. Info - mostly internet,
but some good journalism. Most well-written journalism (New York Times, Time, Economist) has a liberal slant, but it's easy to see past the slant and see both sides.
The Radical responds:
1. Don’t care.
2. No and yes. I’ve grown up.
3. No and yes. I was never a Dem, briefly a Repub., then indpendent, now uninvolved.
4. The major issue is removing the entire federal government structure, devolving all power back to the states. Since none of them comes close to that, I don’t support any of them.
5. All year long I rely on a very large and varied collection of indie website, aggregate list pages, and won’t ever trust the mainstream media to honestly report so much as what color the sky is.
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