Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Hillary And the Write-In-Ballots Of Florida

Hillary came on top with a 20% lead over Obama in Florida. It is not like the big landslide that she had in Michigan. You see, Hillary's name was the only Democratic candidate listed on the ballot of Michigan. So all the Ballots that were cast, only had her name. Everyone else who did not want to vote for Hillary just stayed home. I guess the people of Michigan did not know that they could write the name of the candidate they wanted to vote for if the name was not on the ballot. Maybe no one told them that, or maybe they just forgot. So of course in Michigan Hillary got a hundred percent of the votes, but the actual number of votes cast was less than the list of the Democratic registered voters in Michigan.

Maybe she was hoping for the same outcome. It would have given her that false high again to have a mocked election of 100%. It is obvious that the Floridians were not going to let her get away with it again, so a big number of people voted against her. Remember that this time she only got the 50 percent vote from the Floridian. But then there were 30 percent who wrote Obama's name on theirs tickets. And there were 20 percent with John Edwards name written on their tickets as well. That means that 50 percent of the votes cast DID NOT vote for Hillary. And I'll bet that there were many who just stay home in Florida, because they did not know that they could write-in the name of the person they wanted. Well, let this be a lesson to everyone. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO SETTLE. You have the right as a citizen to write-in the name of your choosing. Remember this, next time you go to cast your vote and your candidate is not on the list.