Presidential Candidates

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Are there any candidates that you like? If so, why have they received your approval?

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No, I don't "like" any of them. In the 30+ years of voting, I can't think of a candidate I've voted for. I usually vote against the worse candidate.To me both major U.S. parties are the parties of "ME ME ME". There doesn't seem to be a party of "US".Amongst my friends, the Republicans have a small advantage but it's with voters holding their noses.You would think that we would be the stalwart base of the Republicans - white, middle age, middle class, middle Americans with college educations, frequently own or work for small businesses.I think the politicians don't realize one thing that occurs to many small business people - NO WAY would I hire the majority of politicians. Too focused on themselves, making promises they know they can't keep, thinking that short term wins on petty issues is leadership.(Cue rant that nobody wants to hear)

Registered Independent, I usually vote Democrat since the Republicans are awful.It seems to me that to the Republicans and Tea Partiers, being conservative means keeping those currently having power & money in power & money.

I've been muttering about this for a while but finally looked up the numbers.To be president you need to be 35 yrs old and native born (US Constitution Article II, Section 1, Clause 5)I'm skipping over exclusions for previous impeachment (US Constitution Article I, Section 3, Clause 7) and rebelled against the US while holding office (US 14th Amendment Section 3) as being a comparatively small number.According to US Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/.../publications/2015/demo/p20-577.pdfSee Table 2 on page 6In 2014, roughly 155 million people in US over age 35 so as to be eligible to be president
Using Nativity Status - Native as 91%, I get 141 million.144,000,000 (ish) choices for our leaderSo out of 141 MILLION choices, the best we can do for our President is Bush/Carson/Christie/Cruz/Kasich/Rubio/Trump or Clinton/Sanders ?I say let's go for a lottery. Look how popular the last Powerball was!Powerball prize of November 8, 2016 is either $x Million or US PresidencyBuy a ticket to the White House. Comes with 4 yrs salary and a life pensionCash only please. You have to wait in line at the local convenience store like everyone else.No ads. No debates that are really repeating lines from your ads.
Increased funding for education.
No whining about Electoral College overweighting Idaho and MontanaEdited by 14174dm, : Correct table number