Musings of One Loading a Turnip Truck So Someone Else Can Fall Off It

With my usual keen and perceptive insight I have observed over the years that in most elections votes are cast on the basis of emotion or political affiliation rather than on the basis of objective analysis and reasoning. This is not too suprising because the candidates and the media rarely produce any hard data on which an objective analysis can be made.

Usually, the candidate with the most charisma and the greatest number of promises wins. If nobody has any charisma then the one with the greatest number of promises wins and thereafter spends a goodly amount of time explaining why promises which were valid before the election became invalid after the election, usually blaming predecessors and/or the opposition.(These are empirical conclusions, but I think they're justified).

Moral: Demand hard data and then vote for the one making the least number of promises and advocating smaller government.