Voters

I feel that voters do not vote on the issues and how they feel about them . I feel like today more than ever the general public has very little education on the true issues, and the way their candidate of favored party stands on the issue. So I do not feel that either of the arguments either by Fiorina or by Frank are really correct in that people do not know the issues, nor the root of the issues. In politics today everything is influenced by the media, and the surrounding environment in which one person is. The media won Barak Obama the election in 2008, the portrayed him in a certain way that was appealing to the general public. I am not saying that everyone who voted for Obama was not educated about his stance on certain issues, I am sure many people were, but at the same time he became larger than the presidency. He was the man the media was looking for, a well spoken mild mannered man who is good looking and could appeal to the media centered world we live in. Barak Obama won the votes of students, and their high turn out helped win him the election, but the face time he had on many student oriented television stations and Internet sights was overwhelming. So many people ate up his image and never considered what he stood for, or listened to his stance on the issues. Although their was in general good numbers for presidential debates on tv I feel people already put on the blinders and did not actually listen to the man they were going to vote for. I think it is essential for people to be informed unbiasedly in order to provide a vote that is truly how they feel, and this does not seem to be happening anytime soon.