Decision Making In Presidential Elections

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Summary In the upcoming debates, a former first lady and secretary of state will face off against a billionaire real estate mogul who has never held any sort of office before but instead has recently been a reality show host. Contrary to belief, the election is not as one-sided as once perceived, in fact, the race is closer than ever at this moment. Shortly after the democratic national convention, markets gave Donald Trump as little as a 20% chance of becoming the next president. Furthermore, he may have gone too far after attacking the parents of an American Muslim soldier who was killed in Iraq. Additionally, national polls have increasingly gotten closer and closer, especially in individual states with Mrs. Clinton having a slight edge. …show more content…
To commence, the first part of the guide to economic reasoning will be that people will have an extremely important decision to make come November when polls open up and they choose which candidate they will want to be the next president. Unfortunately, the choices they make will have costs or consequences whether they be positive or negative by choosing either candidate because of their prospective viewpoints about political, religious, or economic ideas. Likewise, since people do respond predictably to incentives then a major component of any election is what a candidate can promise to voters to ensure a vote. , people will derive economic systems based on the choices they make and the incentives they will receive from those choices. People will gain from trading, but only if it is voluntarily, in this case, people actively trade a vote in exchange for a campaign promise that interest them more. Finally, consequences of a person’s choice will assuredly affect what occurs in the future by not only on who is elected and what types of changes they decide to make, but also by the judgement that is received by

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