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Let's Stop Focusing on Morality, Let's Focus on Policy

Elect a President based on their policy plans, not on something they said in the past.

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Let's Stop Focusing on Morality, Let's Focus on Policy
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The presidential debates between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are some of the most anticiptated and infamous debates since the first televised debates between Nixon and Kennedy.

This is completley understandable as the increase in social media use in culture since the last election has drasticaly increased the political conversation. This is a great thing. The world, and young people included should be discussing the important issues and who is the best person to help solve the issues. However, that is not exactly the conversation that is occurring on these social media sites. So far, the majority of the conversation surrounding this election has been blame, and character deformation. People of both parties are not discussing terrorism, taxes, social issues etc. Rather they are discussing the character of the two candidates. Yes, the President of the United States should be a person of high value and posess moral character, however liable articles, and deformation of character should not be the main topic of conversation in this election.

Everyone makes mistakes, and when you run for public office, those mistakes are exploited. Both of the candidates for president this election are guitly of saying things that they wish they hadnt, or committing crimes or mistakes in their personal lives that are not particularly relevant to the election. Frankly, I am concerned that the election has become a question of morality. People will not vote on election day for the person that they believe has the best policies to fix the problems that face our nation. Rather they will be voting for the person that they think has a higher moral standard. It does not matter who has the best foreign policy to handle the ISIS situaiton in the middle east. It only matters to voters that one candidate said obscene "locker room conversation" thirty years ago. It only matters to voters that another candidate lied and would say or do anything to become president.

There is no conversation about policy, especially in these presidental debates. I am sick of discussing character. I want to vote for the candidate that has the best ideas to help our country and to lead our country. Yes, morality should be a part of the decision, but lets focus less on character, and more on the person that has the best plans to fix our nation's problems.

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