Primaries: The Importance Of Voting In The United States

Seeing my name on that ballot was weird, really weird. I was overwhelmed with pride as I entered the anonymous booth to cast my vote. Here, in Virginia, we use primaries to elect someone to run for office. This means that come voting day you have to be 18 years or older, be a U.S. citizen, and have no past or present felony charges. Then, you sign up to vote at a local building where you have been designated and enter a small booth. You are the only person who knows how you voted and it’s up to you to keep it that way. However, some states chose to elect through caucus’ which is almost like an open debate where each candidate is represented by a crowd of people. Each citizen must physically get up and move to their candidates corner of the room. If someone says something and you chose to switch corners, you may, by physically moving to the other side of the room. By the end of a given time the people in each corner are counted and the corner with the most people has won the …show more content…
It was important to win over these states, especially the ones with the highest electoral votes. Most states honor the “winner takes all” system where the citizens vote for a candidate and the winner takes all of the electoral votes, no matter how close the race is. We visited the states with the highest number of votes first. I made appearances at hospitals, appeared on talk shows, and made speeches regarding my policy- anything to win over the state. After I left a certain state I had my team contact the media to show commercials reminding them of how I was when I met them. I made sure to follow the positive path instead of bringing my competitor down during my race. I had to show America that I am humble. And just like that- a scandal. My opponent made a negative commercial about my “lack of enthusiasm” towards gay rights. I was not going to be disrespected like