elections

In today's elections, people use money and popular to get elected over having good political skills that will help the person run whatever office he or she is in. The smaller the elections, the less money and popularity pays in and the more that having good skills to run plays in. But in the smaller elections there is a small voter turnout. This is because only the people who really do care about the election will vote so the party member must work on having good leadership skills over being more popular. In the presidential election, the candidates talk less about the issues and they are never clear on what they are talking about to be more popular to please more people because there is a bigger turnout because people who don't care as much will still vote. They try to make their beliefs as close in the middle of the political scale as possible, but in order to get their ideas out to people, they try to put their name out as much as possible. And in the effort in putting their name out, they start putting more effort on being more popular and the only way to do that is having lots of money. But in order to have lots of money you have to be rich or be strongly supported by one of the political parties, which is the Democratic or Republican. There are different ways candidates can get money to help their election. One way is with hard money, this is money that is given straight to the candidate. Also their is soft money, this is money that is not given straight to the candidate. They also get contributions from PAC which are organizations made by corporations or interest groups that give contribution of their members into political campaigns. But even with be the most popular candidate getting lots of money, having the media give bias to a candidate also greatly affects them. John McCain had a great shot at winning the elections but with much of the media bias pointing against Sarah Palin, John McCain's chances dropped and he ended up losing the election.
People think that low voter turnout is bad for America. And although it would be great to have everyone in America to vote and be knowledgeable in the elections, it will never happen. By having only the people who want to vote, vote, you get a better chance of the best person winning because you wont have people who have no idea on the election voting to anyone.