How do Americans vote out their president?
In a big country with many different races and ethnic groups like the U.S, electing a president is regularly complicated, and the result is not always predictable. Before the election, each candidate, supported by his party, always makes his best effort to convince voters that he is better than other competitors and so more deserved their votes. To catch the public attention, his party usually carries out a mass electoral campaign which calls people: “vote for him because he is the most capable”. Of course such an effort will affect millions of voters and have certain positive effects because it tries to hide away the weak points of the candidate and show his strong points as much as possible. However, it will not necessarily guarantee that he will win the election then, for many voters don’t just simply vote for the most convincing candidate. In fact, they often make their decision to vote for whom based on many different factors. What are they?
The first group of voters consists of citizens who have nothing to do with or don’t care about politics; for those people, which candidate becomes the president will not make any difference. Some of them may think politics is nothing more than just a dirty game and a president election is nothing more than just a competition of skillful liars trying to take power, for power is naturally associated with benefit, and the winner is just a better liar, so they refuse to vote or just simply put down any name in the list of candidates to their votes without thinking.
The second group consists of voters who at least know well whom they will vote for and why. Yet the reason why they make their choices may not relate to politics at all, for they are heavily influenced by a certain prejudice. Popular factors those they often base on to make their decision are race, skin color, sex, age, health condition, hometown, social class, and political affiliation of the candidates. For exa...
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