How are you going to vote in this 2022 midterm primary?

 

FLORIDA  

Opinion by:  
E. Eugene Webb PhD

You have a lot of options to guide your decision making. Here are a few:

Political party lines all Republicans or all Democrats regardless

Are you going to vote your conscience

Are you going to vote your convictions

Are you going to vote your faith

Are you going to vote your anger

Are you going to vote your fear

Are you going to vote Trump Republicans

Are you going to vote Pence Republicans

Are you going to vote for liberals

Are you going to vote for conservatives

Are you going to vote for evangelicals

Are you going to vote your race

Are you going to vote your ethnicity

Are you going to try to vote for the best possible candidate

You will also be getting a lot of help from political candidate’s commercials, from various news media based on their political bias, and in some cases from your friends and neighbors.

The important thing is that you vote.

Voting can be a little bit difficult when you get down to the local-level offices like school board, county judges, state senators and members of the house, City councils, Mayors, and other local officials.

You may be tempted to pass on the down ballot candidates, especially if you don't know any of them. I would certainly recommend that you take a moment and check out, the local candidates' websites and their commercials if they're running any. You can use some of the criteria above to make your decision about voting for these locally elected candidates. In many cases, these elections are called “nonpartisan."

In most cases they are not nonpartisan at all. Just a bit of checking will reveal that almost all of these candidates have some sort of political affiliation and are supported by a political party at the local county level.

Be sure to look carefully at what these candidates say especially those for school boards and city and county commissions, these are the people that will be making the political decisions that affect your life most directly on a daily basis, be sure you consider and vote carefully.

 

When you're down the ballot voting for governors, members of the state legislature city and county elected officials this is not a referendum on Biden, Trump, or either political party.

This is about picking the people who will be making decisions for your local community, and they should reflect your views.

All elections are important.

Be sure to vote.

If that mail in ballot is still laying, there on the kitchen counter or wherever you drop your mail get it out and vote. If you're going to the polls to vote, or you're going to vote early be sure to get it done.

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