Keeping Tabs on Candidates
Aaron Miller ·
May 31, 2011 at 3:11am
I don't have the best memory for details. So, this year, I'm doing something to ensure I don't forget anything I've learned about the Presidential candidates.
Whenever I read or hear something interesting about a candidate on the internet, I bookmark the article or video in a folder labeled "2012". There's a long way to go before the elections next November, and it would be only too easy to remember one part of a candidate's history or values and forget another. I hope to be able to compare the candidates point-for-point sometime next year.
Is anyone else doing something similar? Has anyone gone so far as to compile their own spreadsheets? Or do you just rely on others' comparisons a month or two before each election?
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Apr '11
Re: Keeping Tabs on Candidates
Interesting idea, and sounds like a good one. However, I think if I tried it, I'd forget to bookmark a lot of the web sites. You could also subdivide the folder into specific folders about each candidate.
Oct '10
Re: Keeping Tabs on Candidates
Aaron Miller: I don't have the best memory for details. So, this year, I'm doing something to ensure I don't forget anything I've learned about the Presidential candidates.
Whenever I read or hear something interesting about a candidate on the internet, I bookmark the article or video in a folder labeled "2012". There's a long way to go before the elections next November, and it would be only too easy to remember one part of a candidate's history or values and forget another. I hope to be able to compare the candidates point-for-point sometime next year.
Is anyone else doing something similar? Has anyone gone so far as to compile their own spreadsheets? Or do you just rely on others' comparisons a month or two before each election? ·
I don't need to. I've already made up my mind on who to support.
Oct '10
Re: Keeping Tabs on Candidates
Getting to know a candidate is like getting to know a new neighborhood. You move in and gather data as it is before you, and compare notes with others to be sure you really do know what it is like. For myself, I have spent a lot of years getting to know the political neighborhood, and rely on continuously paying attention. Also, a candidates words are, for the most part, unimportant to me. I want to know their acts, votes and overall character.
Organized analysis works for some people, and general impression gathering for others. For myself, it is more the impression I receive, than the data about a candidate.
I'm not talking about impression, as in "first impression". I am talking about the impression you get over a period of years.