Primaries

Many believe that the Primaries are a time for the whole country to tune into Politics and the election race. This is a time when the candidates separate themselves from running party mates. This past primary seemed to be very interesting the Democratic Party’s candidates because there wasn’t any one candidate that stood out the most. After the primaries many voters tend to lose focus of the election and not follow it as much. During the primaries the candidates are forced to give false promises on key political issues at that time. It seems to me that every candidates promises to do different and make the country better than the current president.

The media seems to put much hype into the primaries that it draws all different types of voters into it. I think the primaries do a great job of drawing the attention to different voters however, I feel that the inexperienced voters tend to forget about how important the future debates and conventions are to the election. Inexperienced voters tend to suffer the most from primaries because they stop following the election after these candidates give false promises that their parties force them to make.

I’m not sure if this affects party discipline. The candidates are promising everything that the parties believe in and in return the parties sell the candidates. Elections force candidates to say things that they really don’t plan to follow through in once elected into office. This seems to be a common problem in every presidential election.