Mitt Romney This Week

According to 2012.presidential-candidates.org, Mitt Romney is the favored Republican candidate. Followed by him is Newt Gingrich with 32.4%, Rick Santorum with 13.5%, and Ron Paul with 7.1%. What do all these statistics mean? Whoever wins the Republican vote within the United States becomes the Republican candidate against Obama in the official 2012 election this fall for the new president.  This past week was the Florida primary. Each state votes for their favored Republican candidate. The primaries started in January with Iowa and continue until June with New Mexico, South Dakota, and Montana.

Why is this election so important? Our country is in need of change. We are currently suffering from a bad economy, immense public debt, and a lack of confidence that we can reconstruct what is causing this crisis. 

Many people in our society seem to think Mitt Romney could be the solution to our problems, but why? He lost his race in 2008 when Barack Obama won the presidency and he has been working on his campaign ever since. Mitt Romney has pledged to make an improvement in the economy by saying, “My number one job will be to see that America is number one in job creation.” Out of all the problems our country is facing, maybe people do not see how this could be his priority nor is it a promise for successful improvement in other areas.

One article states that the reason Mitt did so well in Florida was because of the negative advertisements toward Newt Gingrich. Statistics in the area showed that more negative advertisements recently were directed toward Newt and not nearly as many were directed at Mitt. The article mentions that these tactics are also planned by Obama for his campaign against the winning Republican candidate. mitt also rides on the health care reform he started in Massachusetts called RomneyCare. This seems good but not good enough to cover the whole country. He seems like a good candidate but many people seem to believe he won’t cut it, so who will? We will have to just wait and see. 

Worse Than Not Voting Is An Uneducated Vote

            Never have I ever written a blog. Although this is my first blog entry, I hope that throughout this assignment I learn a lot especially about our government and the upcoming presidential election. No that I, and many of my peers, are now eighteen, we have a wonderful right in our United States of America to vote and share our opinion. From the several history classes I have taken over my public school education, I have learned that taking advantage of this democratic system is a novelty I should not let slip by. In many other countries I would not have the opportunity and it would be a shame to not participate.

            Another wise piece of information I learned from a mediocre history teacher junior year is that the only thing worse than not voting is an uneducated vote. So as part of my new years resolution, I am determined make an educated vote for our next president.

            So how does one go from having no education of our government system and politics to being able to choose a party and vote for a future successful president? I am not sure.  I assume reading the newspaper is a good place to start, maybe. And I can talk to people who think they know what they are talking about. But at some point people’s knowledge turns into opinion. I am not looking to be influenced by other people’s opinion. There are so many helpful factual websites and throughout my blogs this semester I am confident I will develop a more educated opinion all by myself.

            When will I be ready to vote for myself? Hopefully by the fall. Will I want to keep Obama? Who knows. Will someone new be a better choice? Maybe. All I know is at this point I can’t possibly be less educated about our political system and there is only room for improvement.