I'm surprisingly irritated by the campaigns for class offices this year. Usually it's just the signs and some free food, and then the candidates leave me alone. This year, the campaigns of two people have been a little too in-my-face. Every day this week I've been bothered by a fight for attention between two of the presidential candidates. The supporting reasons that I should vote for them have no actual substance to them. Vote for me, I'm a guy vs vote for me just because I like being in studco. Honestly, I could care less about who wins, so when people put up stupid arguments like that all they do is lose my vote.
Besides, it's not like you can run the election like the actual presidential election, where I don't personally know the candidates. For the student council elections, I know everybody well enough that no matter what campaigning you do, I'm just going to vote for who I think would do the best job. Don't waste your time putting up posters everywhere and buying candy. If I know you're responsible and whatnot, you get my vote, because everyone else is just dicking around with posters and free food.
Also, when you have petty little fights via posters I really just find it irritating. Show us the birth certificate, vote for whoever or we'll kill this little animal, etc. At first it was amusing, but then it kept dragging on and kovacs got mad. You're just making trouble over something that I don't think the general population at Uni cares about. Even good campaigns don't change my vote, albeit I do respect you more. I enjoyed the posters with random women a lot. I can appreciate the humor and I like you more as a person, but sorry, my vote is still going to whoever would actually do the best. So when you do stupid campaigns, you don't get my vote, and you lose my respect.
The other thing about these campaigns is that they really don't seem the positions really don't seem very important at all. You can say, "I'm class president," but at least until you become president of the senior class there doesn't seem to be many responsibilities. It just something to add to your resume. People get too caught up in a silly cause.
ReplyDeleteI think you make a valid point in this post. Uni is such a small community that everyone knows everyone else, and like you said, I have a pretty good idea, from the minute I see who all is running for office, of who is going to be getting my vote. The elections definitely got a little crazy this year, and it just seems silly to be getting so worked up about a class election.
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Good post! I never really thought of the redundancy of campaigns at Uni because you actually know the candidates. The campaigning does get annoying; no one wants to see the hundreds of signs littering the hallways.
ReplyDeleteThey also would ask you way to many times if you would vote for them. Honestly, that's just a turnoff. I don't think our class has been this into election time since subbie year. It's a little too obvious it's all for college apps.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I could live with the signs all over the halls, but what annoyed me was how candidates kept coming up to me and asking who I was voting for. Also, I think this was even worse than Subbie year! At least we got more candy then... Good Post.
ReplyDeleteI think you would agree with me, their need to be issues.
ReplyDeleteWhy does an election matter if the decisions are practically made for any officer? I think that the offices aren't necessary. They add another layer of bureaucracy to the process, when it isn't even necessary.
This election got wayyy out of hand. You are right, I usually just expect to get some free candy and then vote for whoever is most responsible. I doubt anyone actually cares about the imaginary unicorn that will die if you don't vote for candidate X... Great post
ReplyDeleteI don't get too worked up about it. It's student government. So long as they aren't seriously attacking each other, let the candidates do what they want. There was some good-natured back and forth, and as always the campaigns ranged from the "I'm really serious" gambit to the "Please laugh at my joke" strategy, someone referenced Kanye West, yadda yadda. Not much has changed, really. There will always be those who take the elections way too seriously, and those who don't take them seriously at all. I'm fine with that, but then again, I'm one of the latter.
ReplyDeleteWhat differentiates a good class president from a bad one? Everyone does the same stuff every year.
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