Who is Medford Voting for?
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at a campaign event in Penacook, New Hampshire on January 5. Clinton, along with Arizona Senator John McCain, emerged from Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary victorious. Photo by Alexander Svirsky.
With Iowa and New Hampshire behind them, the next big challenge is the new “Super Tuesday,” which this year is happening on February 5, one month earlier than in 2004.
Massachusetts voters, along with voters from multiple states, will head to the polls that day to vote in the presidential primary. InsideMedford.com wants to know who Medford voters favor and why.
Do you feel strongly about a particular candidate and want to share your opinion with fellow Medfordites? InsideMedford.com is looking for opinion pieces written by Medford residents about their favorite candidates from any political party. We will publish those pieces in the days leading up to the primary election on February 5.
Contact news@insidemedford.com for more information or if you’d like to submit an opinion piece on behalf of your favorite candidate.
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Ok, I know it’s rare around here, but I am a Republican; born and raised in Medford. Voters have a plethora of options in this Presidential election; from the far-left and far-right, all views seem to be covered. However, not all of our personal views rest with one candidate. This is a common issue; it is rare to have a candidate that you agree with completely. We need to look at the issues that mean the most to us personally, as well as the country’s biggest issues, and then choose.
It looks like history will be made in this election as well. All polls point to there either being the first black candidate or the first woman candidate to ever be nominated by a major political party in our history. That’s great; America has come so far in a relatively short period of time in regards to equal rights for all. We have always had them in writing, in the Constitution and amendments, but as the saying goes, actions speak lauder than words.
To my choice, Mike Huckabee; hear me out before you roll your eyes. My major issues are economic policy, health care, and foreign policy. The working people of this country are being treated unfairly under the current tax code and it needs to be fixed. Mike Huckabee’s tax reform plan consists of kicking the IRS to the curb and replacing it with a Fair Tax, Consumption Tax, is a great way to give working people a fair chance. Today, drug dealer, bookies, the guy who mows the lawn and all other “under the table” workers reap all the benefits of social programs but put nothing into it. With the Fair Tax, everyone pays the same – sounds fair to me. Get real; if you had to write a check to the IRS every year instead of having it taken out of your paycheck upfront, you would be outraged. Can you tell me how much you make before taxes each pay period? Probably not, but I bet you know how much you take home.
Health car is a major issue and needs to be address by my generation in particular; I’m 29 by the way. We are paying into a social security system that will not be there when we need it. Why? Because we are paying for the Baby Boomers’ Viagra! Health care has become a joke. If you smoke, and get an illness because you smoke, why should I pay higher premiums for you? If you weigh 350lbs, why should I pay higher premiums for your bad eating habit – no exercising correlated illness? If you do harmful things to your body, you should pay higher premiums and visa versa; just like auto and life insurance. Mike Huckabee addresses these issues.
This is Massachusetts, so I won’t even try to change most of the local views on the war on terror. I will say this, how many attacks have we had since 9/11? None. A strong national defense is important, don’t be naïve.
Above all, GET OUT AND VOTE; and don’t forget, in the end we are all on the same team, we just have different views.