So I'm a high school junior and unfortunatly the voting for president is just days before my eighteenth birthday. My school hasnt really told me anything about the presidental cadidiates and what they want to do. I know that it isnt neccessarliy my school job to tell me about politics but shouldnt it have some up some where in some class expectially in history. And I have missed basically everything that was on tv. Who are these people. What does Barack Obama want to acheive? What does Hilary Clinton want to achive? What does Joh Huckabee want to achiece? What does John Mccain want to achieve? What are there goals. What do they want to do about the war? Do any of them want to end it? What about gas prices and our increasing economy? What about global warming? And health insurance. What about other issues. I really am jus uneducated on it all. I guess it's a good thing I cant vote this year lol. How am I suppose to learn about this stuff. Shouldnt somebody be teaching me. Isnt it our future( meaning the youths future) arent we the ones who are suppose to be the ones to change the world. Then shouldnt we be educated on political issues. Somebody please tell me about the presidentil candidate. Even if it is extremely opinonated it is still something I dont know.
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This is often very hard to do with out any preconceived notions of what to expect. Look up the candidates, visit their websites look at their political histories to see how they have handled situations in the past, and what kind of experience they have. Each candidates website is FirstnameLastname.com take a look at the front page, candidate know that many people will never get past this page so it is important to notice what the candidate decides to create as a first and possibly only impression. The next thing you should probably read is their bio who they were/are personally creates who they have been, and will be in their political lives. and lastly but most importantly, read their issues page, cross reference to decide with their political histories to decide weather they are showing consitency, an honest change of belief, or flip-flopping.
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Go on Cnn.com and they have categories of the specifics on the canidates points of views. It helps.
Watching news shows will give you some information on the candidates. I like Chris Matthews' Hardball and Keith Olbermann's Countdown in the evenings on MSNBC. They are both pretty liberal, so if you want some equal time, Joe Scarborough in the morning on MSNBC or Lou Dobbs in the evening on CNN are both right-of-center broadcasters who are generally worth listening to. Fox News is garbage, stay away from it!
Your point of the election not being talked about in schools is a really big problem, and I'm glad you realize the importance of having political discourse within the classroom. I do believe classrooms should be talking about it-- it is absolutely your teachers' jobs to initiate the discussion.
Since that isn't happening, I think you should ask your teachers, particularly your history teacher, to bring the topic up.
But if you want a crash course in who stands for what, visit the individual candidates' websites. I would address all of the issue areas you appear to be concerned about, but it's just too much information to cover in a comment.