Last saturday, I had a couple of friends over for dinner and as it happens in every election year, the conversation gradually veered off to the topics of current politics. I had 4 guests who had voted for Hipolito as they where very upset with the PLD. It so happens that these 4 guys are now voting for Leonel.
Why? According to them, they just want the Hipster out of the National Palace. Its a vote rejecting the status quo not in favor of a particular candidate. One of them was a political science major at Rochester University and he said to me that the polls where in fact so high in favor of one candidate because thats how tendencies behave when people are voting in rejection to someone, in our case Hipolito and his politics. And the safest ticket we see at the moment is in the body of Leonel.
Lets face it, Leonel is not going to bring down the Peso at 17.5 nor the gas prices below $70.00 a gallon nor are they going to solve the energy crisis. In the end its all about kicking out these bunch of criminals that currently govern the DR. Out of the 60%+ Leonel has in the polls, I bet 40%+ just want these A-Holes out of office.
One of the guys at my house said that he'd never voted for a candidate that won but now, for the first time he was voting on someone who was sure to win. I said, my candidate always won and in his last elections lost to Hipolito, now, I want to vote for a winning candidate regardless of who it is.
So, I thought a bit about that and I wonder, How many of you are voting for Leonel or Against Hipolito?
Why? According to them, they just want the Hipster out of the National Palace. Its a vote rejecting the status quo not in favor of a particular candidate. One of them was a political science major at Rochester University and he said to me that the polls where in fact so high in favor of one candidate because thats how tendencies behave when people are voting in rejection to someone, in our case Hipolito and his politics. And the safest ticket we see at the moment is in the body of Leonel.
Lets face it, Leonel is not going to bring down the Peso at 17.5 nor the gas prices below $70.00 a gallon nor are they going to solve the energy crisis. In the end its all about kicking out these bunch of criminals that currently govern the DR. Out of the 60%+ Leonel has in the polls, I bet 40%+ just want these A-Holes out of office.
One of the guys at my house said that he'd never voted for a candidate that won but now, for the first time he was voting on someone who was sure to win. I said, my candidate always won and in his last elections lost to Hipolito, now, I want to vote for a winning candidate regardless of who it is.
So, I thought a bit about that and I wonder, How many of you are voting for Leonel or Against Hipolito?
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