Personal Narrative Essay: My Non-Vote Presidential Election

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My non-vote Presidential Election Being the first year that I can actually vote I was quite disappointed in the candidates that were chosen to be elected for the presidential role. During their speeches I heard many errors in the debates they were conversing about, found nothing interesting in the topics either contender chose to talk about and I slowly became impassive. I personally felt like Trump was only running for the presidential election because his dislike towards Barack Obama. Now many will disagree with me on this but think about it, the first thing he wanted to do when he won the presidential election was to remove Obamacare. Why? Well, being the fact that Barack Obama has made name for all African Americans worldwide and to

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