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Tomorrow night at 9 p.m., the vice presidential debate will take place. This will be the first vice presidential debate I will watch.
Like several Appalachian students, this is the first election I will get to vote in and I am thrilled. I have followed politics for years and since I finally get a say so in the process, I am eating it up.
I watched the presidential debates and turned it off rather unimpressed. Not much was said that truly blew my mind for one candidate or the other.
Additionally, I felt I had heard all of what they were saying too many times before.
With five weeks before the election and an economical crisis, there are so many differences in this election than previous ones.
I feel that I need to be aware of all aspects of the election.
Which is why I am going to watch the vice presidential election.
Vice
presidents have never really impressed me that much. Perhaps it is
because I had always been too young and naive to think anything
terrible would happen to a president.
A friend
of mine brought up an excellent point that I had not truly thought of
before. This is the first time, in my lifetime, that a president could
actually die while in office. Sen. John McCain is 72 years old.
According
to a June 11 article on CNN.com, the average life expectancy of a white
male is 78 years old. This means that Sarah Palin could be our next
president.
I feel
that Sen. Joe Biden is equally important in this issue, as I don’t know
of anyone who saw it coming that he would be asked. Sen. Barack Obama
is full of surprises and Biden was a major one.
I also
never realized how important vice presidents were until now. I used to
think their debates were to back up the presidential nominee’s point of
view. That is true, but I feel that this election, Biden and Palin
have a lot more to say.
In 2000,
the election that decided between Al Gore and George W. Bush was based
on a few Floridian votes. This year, I hope there is not a repeat of
that long process, but I feel that voters might swing towards one party
or another based on a vice presidential hopeful.
Tomorrow
night, I will be plopped on a couch watching the vice presidential
debates with some popcorn. I hope that I will learn more about each
candidate, so that my vote will mean something on Nov. 4.
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As for the presidential debate, of course you've heard what McCain and Obama have said before. They've been campaigning for a year and a half. When they're asked the same questions over and over, you're going to hear the same things...that's politics. Also, how could you not realize that John McCain is old? I think a lot has been made about his age throughout this election. Yes he is old, and yes that should certainly be taken into consideration when casting your vote. However, to say that this "is the first time in [your] lifetime that a president could actually die while in office" is not at all correct. Being president is risky and unfortunately any president has the possibility of dying in office. Most presidents have multitudes of health problems and have threats against their life.
Lastly, I'm not sure how your vote could make a difference if you don't even know the date of the election. Election Day is Nov. 4, not Nov. 2.