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The problem is this... if you add up all of the important issues for the average voter... abortion, gun control, education, defense, healthcare, taxation, etc... and try to vote according to what a candidate believes, you will notice that the candidates might support every issue that you believe with, except one. And that is the problem, because then you must decide if that one issue is worth not voting for that candidate, and voting for his opponent whose views are even further opposed to your total point of view, but they do agree with you on that one issue.

Most people find this too perplexing, and thus don't vote.

45 posted on 10/17/2003 1:42:11 PM PDT by Pan_Yans Wife (You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.)

I agree that it can be confusing, but as I said in my last post, I am adamant on two issues: abortion and euthanasia. For me it is easy to vote. If they support either, then they will not get my vote. If they do not support them, then I will consider the rest of their policy based on it's merits.