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INTEREST: Hillary Clinton Campaign Targets Potential Voters at Pokémon Go Locations

towards Bernie's side of the Democratic Party.

Leave us alone! If we want to vote for you we will, you trying to get on our side by quoting Pokemon, and doing other things to try to appeal to millenial's just makes you look desperate and pathetic.

I can't wait till after November when we have the horrible president we deserve, be it the crazy reality tv personality or the lying out of touch career politician.

Why ANN.

Why in the world would you post this unless you wanted to invoke politics in the forum. I come to ANN for anime, not politics. Keep politics out.

Fixed. Seriously tho, try all she might, she's too much of a proven liar to get votes for simply trying to be connect via Pokemon

It's sad to see that neither candidate feels they can win without pandering to the stupid vote.

Newsflash: in November, most of these people will think of every excuse under the sun to avoid voting. The reason why young people are underrepresented in politics is because a lot of them don't vote. For the life of me, I could not convince my friends to vote in the last election, because they supposedly didn't support any candidate. The problem I have with that is, when pressed, it turns out that they haven't researched any candidates or their positions. Therefore, it's just an excuse to cover up their own lack of interest in politics and democracy. Sad.

Needless to say, a lot of the young people I encounter express socialist views, partly because they've been carried through life and don't know the value of working for something. That is the major appeal of a candidate like Bernie Sanders. Unfortunately, not everything in life can be paid for by the government and given to you for free. With that said, Bernie Sanders is a great person and if the Democratic Party goes on to win the election, it will be because he swayed enough people to vote Democrat.

Honestly, I like Hillary Clinton, but I can't see her in the shoes of any past president, which makes me uneasy about her becoming president. Sure, one might argue that she's a more qualified alternative to Donald Trump, but, on its own, that fact does not mean I would automatically vote for her. If anything, I won't be voting against someone in this election, because that's how politics becomes toxic and real issues get ignored. And if real issues don't get discussed, then how is anybody supposed to gauge a candidate?

Donald Trump is extremely hard to read. There's a side of him that appears unpredictable in front of the cameras, but as far as being "unscripted" goes, he at times seems to know exactly what he's doing. His campaign, with the exception of a few notable mishaps, has been methodical and well coordinated, decimating a Republican field of would-be nominees. I'm not one to let fear-mongering or attack ads influence my opinion of someone, which neither helps nor works against Trump. The problem with Trump is that there isn't a lot of substance in his campaign. Supposedly, he will build a giant wall, ban Muslims, and burn free-trade agreements... but Trump is supposed to be a business man and a "master negotiator," which means that I expect a lot more than catchy slogans and displays of demagoguery to sell me on any of these proposals.

Kebble wrote:

Needless to say, a lot of the young people I encounter express socialist views, partly because they've been carried through life and don't know the value of working for something. That is the major appeal of a candidate like Bernie Sanders. Unfortunately, not everything in life can be paid for by the government and given to you for free. With that said, Bernie Sanders is a great person and if the Democratic Party goes on to win the election, it will be because he swayed enough people to vote Democrat

Ah, the good ol' baseless "free stuff" argument.
A great way to demonize supporters of Sanders.

bones2039 wrote:

I can't wait till after November when we have the horrible president we deserve, be it the crazy reality tv personality or the lying out of touch career politician.

We've done nothing to deserve Trump as President. So what's this "we" jazz?

Considering the failure to provide real leadership from either major party in US politics we are getting just what we the american people deserve.

We have allowed the fringe elements of both parties to grab control and steer politics in a way that divides the american people more than ever.

Way too many people are not engaged and knowledgeable about what is going on with elections or our government.

Make no mistake, the reason both Trump and Clinton are the candidates we have is because in general, not enough of us care about the election since we are more concerned with who Taylor Swift is dating or the PSI in a football.

At the rate things are going, someone is going to kill someone at the RNC, no exaggeration. And this isn't helped by the fact that people can carry HANDGUNS there and are banned from bringing TENNIS BALLS.