Are candidates owed our votes, or do they have to earn them? [View All]

[Solon]

I saw this post yesterday, and the responses make me fear for our democracy. Now, it seems like most responders just read the subject line, and were too lazy to read the rest of the post, and I really hope this is the case, if not, then its just sad. Cboy's only point was that the Democratic candidate will actually have to win him over to get his vote. Isn't that the whole point of participating in a Democracy? You know, I remember my Political Science class in college, and basically one of the assumptions was that the most basic things for candidates to do is to EARN the citizen's vote, citizens themselves are under NO obligation to vote for a candidate unless they feel the candidate deserves their vote.

The fact is that to mindlessly vote for a single party, without regard to positions, issues, current and past situations is foolhardy. A trained monkey can do that.

I just don't understand why so many people flamed him for basically saying he's going to act as a citizen of this nation instead of an acolyte for a political party.