I can't stand how Clinton and Obama have run and continue to run on being "the first _______ president". I guess that is what the young voters are going after. The right needs to run on a campaign of, "the first president to expose bullsh!t". Why have we not exposed the POS so-called budget for what is really in it.
The rational way to vote is to have convictions and opinions about public policy, and then seek the candidate who will do those things. The vast majority of voters do not have any opinions or convictions, because that would require READING and THINKING. They just wait for “The Man on the White Horse,” “the Messiah,” or the candidate who “cares about people like me.”
My favorite quotation from Bertrand Russell, who was brilliant though evil:
“Most people would rather die than think, and millions have.”