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Photo credit: CNN Ireports, courtesy Kevin Sheen
After nearly two years of campaign stops and stump speeches Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain are still unfamiliar figures to some voters.
Take for example Kevin Sheen from Lincoln, Nebraska. The 29 year old is a registered democrat who voted for George W. Bush in 2004. He says he's still not sure who he should vote for to be the nation's next President. He has looked at both candidates but says he's still "wrestling with moral values." Sheen is "definitely pro-life," but is still researching who is most in line with his views on abortion.
Then there is Kyle Aeverman of Arizona. He's 21 and will cast his first presidential ballot this election. He's already decided he's not going to vote for McCain, his state's longest serving Senator. Instead he is torn between Democrat Barack Obama and Green Party candidate Cynthia McKinney. He realizes that a vote for McKinney may be "a wasted vote" considering Obama's popularity but adds he just got interested in politics in the last few months. Aeverman admits he can't wait for November 4th. Not because it will be his first time to exercise his right to vote, instead, he's "excited for it [the election] to be over."
These two men fit into two categories both Democrats and Republican camps have been working so hard to reach this election. Every cycle political analysts say something to this effect; this year it will come down to the youth vote, if they turn out.. such and such candidate will win. The twenty-something’s still fit in the "youth vote" category and are admitted undecided voters. The latest poll of polls shows anywhere from 4 to 9 percent of registered voters are still undecided on whom they will choose tomorrow Election Day.
Both candidates are scurrying all across the country today to reach people in these categories. McCain, at 72 years of age, set out on an ambitious plan of stumping one last time in 7 states; starting this morning in Tampa, Florida going to Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Indiana, New Mexico, Nevada and ending in Arizona by midnight. Obama announced a similar attack, he also started in Florida this morning before heading to North Carolina and then Virginia where he anticipates being the first Democrat selected by voters in that state in decades.
Political analysts believe Obama will win by a landslide, predicting he will receive more than 300 electoral votes. Yet, with all the campaign stops, attack ads and half hour infomercials, the candidates have not been able to convince either Sheen or Aeverman who is the best candidate to be President less than 24 hours before the polls close and this election is over. And there may be more people out there like Sheen and Aeverman than we know of.
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