Get Out the Vote Essay

First off I thought about how I do not know much about politics or the issues dealt with. I wanted to vote last week at the primaries, but did not end up going because of the storm. Now that I think about it me not going was probably best. If I had gone I would have been researching the candidates the day of the vote and therefore not well prepared. Although I feel it is good to vote, since the person in office makes many decisions that affect me, I do not think you should vote if you have no idea who to vote for. My thoughts on the speaker were that it is someone who is in charge of something to do with politics and all they care about is getting more votes. People want more people to vote because they think it will help their candidate. I think more people voting, those who usually do not know anything about the elections, would just mess it all up. You would have those people who are fully for one person or another voting for their candidates then everyone else who was made to vote voting for just anyone. The audience for this phrase is everyone. The speaker does not care who they are talking to, they just want people to go vote. I guess they think it will give their party a better chance of winning. I am not aware of any other phrases that have to do with this, but I am sure there are. People are set on getting people to vote so I am sure they say many things just to appeal to everyone.

In the end this source is arguing for those who choose not to vote. He is also showing a good point that America is a land of the free. If you say everyone has to vote then that is taking away our freedom. I believe everyone has the right to choose if they will vote or not and either decision does not make one less or more an American. Again, I do think it is good to vote so people who will defend your beliefs are in office, but if you do not know anything about the candidates or the issues at hand then your vote will not be much good anyways. I know for me I am just not real into politics and so then I do not try to find out anything. It just bores me because most what they talk about I do not understand. I do not want to vote for someone just because someone else said I should or because their name is most familiar to me. When I vote I want to know the facts on the candidates and the issues they are discussing so I vote for someone that will make a change for the better, at least from my point of view.

I also never would have thought this article was written in 1955. I only think about the recent elections being times when people are pushing the election down your throat. I guess it is just because you see everyone on every street corner and every television station telling you to vote, even celebrities. When I think of past times, I think of people wanting to vote because the right was not always there for them. I am not sure the exact date, I know it is sad, but women, African Americans, and illiterate people were not able to vote for the longest time in America. I really do see the people fifty years ago being happy and proud to vote. I guess they had the same troubles though. Really people do not change that much and many will be too lazy to go out and vote or stay informed on the elections. I think now a day people take voting for granted as well and do not really think much of who is in office because things in America will continue to run smoothly. I think since most of America live pretty nice lifestyles they figure everything else is okay too. People must think of the other people in America that are suffering and need help. We might not feel we need the government’s help but there are people that do. The government also is in charge of military and other things that keep our whole country safe and secure. Those in office also help make sure things are run the way the people feel it needs to be run. They oversee many aspects of people’s lives that we would never imagine. Even though they do help Americans, our government also deals with other countries and without someone in charge to take care of these things America would be nothing.

I am defiantly on the side of the writer. He helped make the situation on voting very clear. I knew what he was talking about when he used the different people for different examples and I think it would be clear to anyone else. He hit every point on how voting and not voting would affect the way elections are run. Really it might not hurt to have people voting that do not know anything about it, but like he said, not voting is just as much a right as voting.