The Importance Of Presidential Elections

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This presidential election was the the first one that I could vote in and I am sure it was many of your first as well. With that being said, I haven’t fallowed the other elections as close to know how ugly they were in the past. Based on my experience of this election I think it was an extremely hard and ugly election. It was not only ugly between candidates and parties but also between friends and families.

I think elections are going to bring out the worst and candidates are going to bring up everything they can to turn voters against them. These candidates did just that. For future elections I think it is important to get the facts and try to push media outlets to only produce facts. I don’t know if there is much we can do to make it more

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