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What is Electability

Published Date Written by Scott R Davis

Electability is being fit or able to be elected, especially to a public office. Electability is a term that is normally introduced during high school each year upon class elections. The term used than usually involved more popularity (popular vote) then the term does when referring to candidates for President of the United States (Electoral College). But the base definition and how a voter determines ones electability stays the same. 

Electability is a common conversation every four years as the media pushes the conversation and highlights what makes candidates electable and not-electable. If you are registered Republican or paying attention to the GOP Debates then you already know. Although the process of determining a candidate to be electable or not should be decided in the minds of the voters not in the presentation of news.

The numerous post-debate polls, panels, and conversations all relate to the candidates seen AS electable to those running said interviews. The questions may be tweaked to favor how one might answer or may ignore a candidate all together. The media once held a responsibility to provide fair and honest news to the people, but is leaning the other way with each passing debate.

If you support one of the numerous one-time, top-tier candidates then close your eyes and rethink what I just said for a minute. Is the decision of your support based on the data you have collected or have been presented to you?

The debate system concept was designed to show the voters the candidates’ positions, strengths, weaknesses and who they were as a person and a candidate. They were designed with honesty and fairness at the base level, allowing the voters to watch and listen to the candidates and determine if that candidate is electable in their mind. Giving the voters the data to make an informed decision is what America is all about; making a decision of electability based on the candidates’ traits is what free and equal elections are in a democracy or a republic.

Instead of discovering the traits of the candidates we are presented with a made-for-TV reality show. Candidates bicker back and forth, switch sides on the matters that matter most, promote ideas without laying out the plans, and promising the things that the position they are looking to be elected in has little to no control over. We get to watch an extended showing of the Jerry Springer Show on national TV each leaving us further from knowing the candidates traits.

The media isn’t the only source of news and information anymore. The internet where you are sitting right now has the pros and cons of every candidate, from the fabricated to the truth. Take a trip on YouTube and watch all the candidates talk about issues that matter to you. Search and read the blogs that talk about the pros and cons of the candidates you like. Visit the media sites and read the comments and take them all in and form your definition of which candidate is electable.

Believing the data that is presented to you alone is where we have lost touch with the election process. It is time we research our candidates, discover each of their traits and flaws and put it together in our mind and determine which candidate is electable to us.

The definition of electability is still being fit or able to be elected, especially to a public office, but it’s how we the people come to the conclusion of the electability that has distorted over time. It’s time to turn off the TV, put down the newspaper, and discover the candidates for their own good and bad online. Advancing the view and how one determines electability will be a true revolution.

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