Why Do People Vote in US Elections?

I wonder why some people vote? Some people don't even know who is on the ballot whether it be for state or a national election. Do people really care or are they just voting just to say that they voted. That is only one's opinion. People probably don't feel like that there vote does not make a difference. Especially after the 2000 US Presidential Election between George W. Bush and Al Gore. Al Gore won the popular vote, but George W. Bush won the election thanks to the Electoral College. The Electoral College however usually gets the finally say in any US Presidental Election. I think that election put a lot of doubt in people's minds in the political system. Lots of people probably did not even vote again after the year 2000.
On www.psychologytoday.com in a November 8, 2009 post online tries to answer this question. ''Why Do People Vote? by Satoshi Kanazawa'' One of the reasons that people vote its because its an irrational act. The probability of your vote making a difference in a national election for President of the United States would make a small or no difference. The closest election in US Presidental history was back in the 1960. When John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon were on the ballot for US President. The probability for one voter to make a difference was 1 out of 118,574. That is not even 200,000 people. ''One person's vote is never going to make any difference in a large national election. Why do people vote? There is no definitive answer that everybody agrees on.''
I have to agree with this article because people just vote without any reason. One vote will never determined who will win the US Presidental Election. You personally cannot be the one person who will decided who is the next President of the United States of America. The United States actually has political system, but its really unique and hard to understand. That why its called politics.

Passions

There are many things I love to do, to watch, and to listen too. First, I was a born and raised Lutheran Christian woman. Church and family have always been a big part of my life despite what my older sister thinks. I love listening to music because it is my life. I listen to hard rock, soft rock, soundtracks, heavy metal, punk rock, and rock n roll. I always have the radio on in my car. There is not a day that goes by where I am not listening to music.
As much as I hate to admit this, but I also love working. I have been working at Kohl's for almost 4 years now, but I cannot stand working retail so I am earning my degree in Communications to hopefully get a great job someday. I also love watching sports and attending them if I can. I am a loyal follower of World Wrestling Entertainment(WWE), Total Nonstop Action Wrestling(TNA), Football, Hockey, Baseball, and some Volleyball. Every now and then I can be a movie buff and rent all kinds of movies if I have any money.
On the rare occasion I do like to read. I have always had a learning disability in reading, I had a hard time comprehending reading and understanding vocabulary. I hated reading as a child, but now I enjoy some reading besides school work. I have read and seen all of the movies to the Harry Potter books, the Twilight series, and the Lord of the Rings books. I have also read some musicians and bands autobiographies. I would recommend reading Motley Crue's autobiography, The Dirt, some parts are gross but a really good read.
I would describe myself as a unique person because I don't know what I am going to do everyday. Some days I feel like a teenage kid or a genius, etc. That is why like to say ''Take things One Day at a Time'' because who knows what is going to happen each day of life.

Helping my Future in Writing

In Chapter 5 of the Modern News Editing book by Ludwig and Gilmore. This chapter talks about working on your own mistakes in writing. There is even a section on page 73 of the book for ''Standard copy editing and proofreading marks.'' This page will help any writer out for common spelling errors. This page shows you how to delete and insert words. Everyone makes mistakes in writing, but we help ourselves if we can learn from the everyday common mistakes in writing. Punctuation and grammar is a key part to writing. You don't want to embarrass your future employer on a missing dot or misspelled word. This is what Chapter 5 teaches the student on how to fix common mistakes in writing.

Our friend ''The AP Stylebook''

The Associated Press book helps students understand the world of editing. ''Without The Associated Press, the planet would be a very different place.'' (AP Style book) The same can be said about using internet. The world be very different if the internet had not been invented, so there would be no such thing as blogging. Blogs help start group discussions and people can talk other people around the word, and they have never even meet before. The world wide web has changed people's way of thinking and same can be said about the AP Style book.

''Every Newspaper Journalist Should Start a Blog''

Scott Karp wrote on article in 2007 called ''Every Newspaper Journalist Should Start a Blog''. Karp talks about how college students/people in the media can benefit from having there own blog. If a person has there own blog that person can have a good resume for a job, the writer can be more accurate about keeping things posted and up to date, the writer can stay more connected with reader through the internet because almost everybody uses the internet.

When a writer starts a blog, the writer can show a future employer how he/she can keep up with the times. The writer shows his/her online skills and even there writing skills when they post things on a blog. The writers writings are right there in front of a computer screen for the whole world wide web can read. People can make comments or people can start another blog off your blog. This can start a discussion online among many other people.