The Importance Of Voting In Nevada

The most interesting detail I learned from the books is that a candidate being able to connect with voters is one of the most important things a candidate must do to win the presidency. It can be seen in the 1992 election as Clinton was able to connect with people and make them believe that change was possible. Bush in this election was unable to connect and so even though he was president when the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union fell, he was unable to win the presidency. I believe this connects quite perfectly with the current election. Donald Trump was able to maybe not necessarily connect with voters, but he able to connect more than Hillary Clinton was able to. His supporters viewed him as someone who wasn’t part of the political establishment …show more content…
However, most of the time I don’t think about the fact that the only reasons candidates come to Nevada multiple times and commercials about the elections are everywhere is because Nevada is a swing state. The book made it clear that candidates truly only spend times in states that they need to win that they believe they can win, meaning swing states. Other states like for example, California are rarely campaigned in nowadays because California will vote democratic. It is interest to think about that because before I really thought about it while reading the book I didn’t not realize how weird it is that Nevada is campaigned in more than California just because our state is important because of the Electoral College. I believe this because while California’s population and diversity of voters is greater than that of Nevada, nobody campaigns in such a big state because in the terms of the Electoral College it doesn’t matter. Now that I realize this it really makes me believe that the Electoral College truly is an issue because it deprives voters from seeing candidates, and enjoying many of the other things a national election would