Presidential Race

[SVXMAN2001]

As for voting for a third party candidate, I DO understand your logic. However I respectfully disagree. The bottom line is many people think that the person they are voting for will make a change. It's not the President that runs the country, it's congress (lobbyists to a great extent as well). Obama ran on his promise of change and forward thinking and look where we are. We've changed for the worse. I am a federal employee and as some may know Obama has placed the majority on a pay freeze, all the while practically everything has increased in price.

Now we have Romney promising a different type of change and direction. What makes his claims any more meaningful than Obama's? I don't agree with his entire policy. However I do agree with his fiscal conservatism by trimming the fat off the enormous government bureaucracy and wasted departments. Obama created jobs simply by using our tax dollars to employ people for useless government agencies.

I take a much more cynical view of this election than some. I don't like politics and believe politicians are nothing but hypocritical and self interested. Voting for a third party does elicit more hope I suppose, but in the end they will encounter the same bureaucratic gridlock that all everyone else has. And ultimately their campaign will have been funded by some influential lobbyist who they'll have to repay in some form or another.