·Voting for Gore (11.7.2000) ·Down the Stretch: Vote Gore, but Not For Sure (10.31.2000) ·After The Final Debate: Leaning Gore. Four More Years Vs. Taking A Chance (10.18.2000) ·After the Second Debate (10.13.00) ·After the First Debate: What Neither Candidate Cared to Mention (10.5.2000) ·Introduction (10.2.00) Joseph is 30 years old and is a vice president of marketing at an architecture and design firm. He is single. Though eligible to vote since 1988, this will be the first election in which he plans to vote. community, diversity, taxes He played football at Cornell University and tried out for the New York Giants.

I can't say that the debate did much for me. They basically discussed the same issues. They simply dressed them up for the cameras. Bush may have gained some points in the polls but Gore was much more impressive and effective. Dare I suggest that he came across more like a President than Bush?

They both failed miserably by not discussing many of the issues that my community and I are concerned about. Yes, revamping the education system is important. A new strategy for social security is imperative. I didn't miss those. But, what about the state of race relations in this country? What about the death penalty? What about inequality in sentencing minorities vs. majority members for the same offenses? Racial profiling? The rise in hate crimes?

Gore said this morning on a radio interview that he didn't bring up issues like these because the moderator did not pose the questions. Whatever. I've been in PR and multi-marketing for years. Bush and Gore both gave a list of questions to the moderator in preparation for the show. Were these issues even addressed then? I guarantee you that had the moderator known that both or one of these candidates wanted to definitely discuss issues X and Y, the questions would have been brought up.

Both candidates knew who their audience was going to be last night. They both knew who they needed to swing. Minorities or any oppressed group were not the target audience. If our country doesn't purposefully address issues of oppression, not just those related to taxation, then we're doomed to continue to destroy one another - socially, educationally, and fiscally.

Regardless of who wins this election, the gap between the haves and the have nots continues to expand. The candidates showed me one of the major reasons for this divide last night. The true issues of the oppressed are not on the national radar, not enough at least to merit a voice.

·Voting for Gore (11.7.2000) ·Down the Stretch: Vote Gore, but Not For Sure (10.31.2000) ·After The Final Debate: Leaning Gore. Four More Years Vs. Taking A Chance (10.18.2000) ·After the Second Debate (10.13.00) ·After the First Debate: What Neither Candidate Cared to Mention (10.5.2000) ·Introduction (10.2.2000)