83% Obama
75% Stein
74% Johnson
64% Romney
Obviously, I'm more liberal than anything, but I've recently learned it's more of an aggressive liberal, like FDR, rather than a bleeding heart. It's a bit difficult to explain.
Anyway, I just turned 18, so for this to be an election year is really exciting. As for the candidates, not so much. The way I see it, we're in a mess. A huge, nearly irreversible mess. There is no way for either candidate to completely reverse it during their term, be it either Romney or Obama. While Romney doesn't care about the middle or lower class, I hate to say it, I bet he'd know what to do as far as getting the economy moving in the right direction. Obama can too, but it seems like he's been more preoccupied with other pressing issues. Romney and I don't share very many views, almost none at all, and for that reason I'll be voting Obama.
An aside, I wish Hilary Clinton were running again. When Bill Clinton was in office, the U.S. was back into the green economically, even after George H. W. Bush's economic policies. I'm almost positive that if we had a Clinton back in office, we could make it back out of our debt. But sadly, Bill failed his role as Chief Citizen, and the U.S. at large won't vote for Hilary, so now we're stuck deciding between Obama or Romney. The Electoral College needs to be repealed. With it, we can only vote between two parties, and honestly, before today I had never heard of Stein, but she seems like a nice alternative to the choices I've got this November.
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