Change, change, change.... that's all I'm hearing from the presidential candidates (and even then, primarily the democrats).
How about we do something odd and vote issues! What good is change if the issues they support are bad? One of the things that stunned me in the 06 elections is that people voted for change, but many of those same people didn't realize that one of the issues that the democrats ran on was raising taxes. They ran on the ticket to eliminate GWB's tax cut. That tax cut 'for the rich' has literally meant $2000 for me each year.
So in 2008, as I did in 2006, as I did in 2004, I will be voting issues.
1. Abortion - Yes this is a primary issue for me. Does the candidate support life?
2. War on Terror - Does the candidate understand that we are in a battle with radical Islamic's? That we can't ignore them as we did in the 90's?
3. Immigration - Does the candidate support enforcing our laws?
4. Protection of Marriage - OOOOHHHH a touchy issue, but does the candidate support traditional marriage? I could go into why I think this is important... but I won't.
Or will we be voting on emotion and 'change'... awesome video... no substance and this candidate in particular is in complete opposite sides of the issues above from my point of few.