A decision making process where people choose people to hold official offices, Yes ELECTION , the usual mechanism by which modern democracy fills offices in the legislature, sometimes in the executive and judiciary, and for regional and local government .
According to Fr.Fank Pavone, M.E.V.National Director,"it's a declarations of"done deal" before they're done. It's war of polls and "front-runners," of probabilities and predictions".
There are two important questions relating to elections; The first is that who may vote , which is a central issue in elections and the second is which stage are we in regard to election .
Before clarifying about these two important questions we must have some pre-knowledge about history of elections and two stages which are distinguished in them .
The first most important thing to know is that the electorate does not generally include the entire population; For example,many countries prohibit those judged mentally incompetent from voting, and all jurisdictions require a minimum age for voting .
Historicaly, many other groups of people have also been excluded from voting . For instance,the democracy of ancient Athens did not allow women,foreigners,or slaves to vote, and the original United States Constitution left the topic of suffrage to the states; Usually only white male property owners were able to vote ! Much of the history of elections involves the effort to promote suffrage for excluded groups. The women's suffrage movement gave women in many countries the right to vote, and securing the right to vote freely was a major goal of the american civil rights to vote , and securing the right to vote to other groups which remain excluded in some places ( such as convicted felons, members of certain minorities, and the economically disadvantaged) continues to be a significant goal of voting rights advocates .
The second most important thing to be mentioned is that there are two important stages to an election .
Stage one, in which we are now , is the period of time when we get to decide who will be on the ballot. Stage two, which comes after the primates are all finished , is when we figure out who on the ballot should get our vote .
These are two very different stages .
Key to winning the psychological battle for the election is to keep remiding ourselves that we are in stage One, not stage Two .
The fact is that right now, nobody knows which candidate will be on the ballot for the presidential election in November of 2008 . It could be any one of the candidates who have already declared their intention to run, or it could be someone we haven't heard of yet. As past elections have shown,"front-runners" at this stage of the process do not necessarily become the winner on election day. And in the age of blogs, circumstances in politics change faster than ever, and the dynamics of change are more numerous and unpredictable than ever. Many things still have to happen.
Straw polls, debates into a much stronger position that they now enjoy .
The 2008 Election battle is well underway, but the battlefield, at this stage of the election is not in the voting booth, and not even in the bank .
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