Hello Classmates!
I found this article on NPR called: The Big Reason Voters Like Trump, Clinton? They're Not The Other. The article talks about a compilation of data on surveys conducted by the Pew Research Center where they asked Trump and Clinton supporters a series of questions about their choice of presidential candidate. The results were really interesting.
Apparently, most people made their choice primarily based on the fact that their chosen candidate is not the other one. Not only that, but while they supported a certain candidate, about half of those surveyed still had concerns about their pick.
This is important because it relates to the fact that most uneducated voters do not have clear or consistent political ideas. They seem to go more with any emotion that brings conflict or a clear goal to fight for. I encourage everyone to take a look at it since I don't think we should ever settle for the "lesser of two evils".
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The article that I would like to comment on is Jose's Freedom Article about the article: The Big Reason Voters Like Trump, Clinton? They're Not The Other. What my classmate highlighted was the summary of the article that stated that people only voted for their preferred candidate because they hated the other and afterwards Jose put his opinion into the article and talked about how people are ignorant because they based their voting choice on the other opponent not on the policies and background information of these people which I absolutely agree and applaud Jose for stating in his blog although I would have wished that Jose would have talked about those people that are voting for Donald Trump regardless of those exact same people knowing of his faults it does not make sense to me at all why those people having full knowledge of his disparities still will or have already cast a vote for him and I wish you would have highlighted that. But otherwise I loved your editorial.
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