How to Get Elected...

In order for someone in today’s political environment to get elected they must have many natural or “lucky” events for them to win. For example, if you are born into a family that has a history of being involved with politics, you are automatically considered the favorite; Regardless of your abilities. More often the media has a biased for those running in a campaign with a family history already involved with politics. This causes voters to watch certain media channels or buy magazines because that media network supports that particular voter’s candidate. The more voters the networks or companies can get, the more money they make, the more they support the candidate, the more biased that network becomes. The more networks support certain candidates the more money they are given. So it is fair to say as a candidate’s popularity increases thanks to media bias, the more money they receive in return, which allows them to advertise more and just repeat the cycle. As far as the money candidates receive they there used to be 2 types, hard money and soft money. Now days there is only hard money, this is money directly given to certain candidates as opposed to the illegal type of money, money not directly given to the candidate, but given to things like topics or advertising, etc. Soft money yes has become outlawed, however it has been replaced with 527’s, money given to a certain issue and if a candidate supports that issue they will be given a 527. The more hard money a candidate raises, the more his name circulates in the public, the higher his chances for winning. Studies show that more often than not the candidate who has his names more places and his name circulating wins. Many voters vote on who they can remember, not the candidates beliefs or opinions on issues. This is why Americans should not be required to vote. If they do, you will see more American’s simply voting because of their name, or how much they are seen in the public and less voters coming out to vote on who will actually serve their district or country or world the best.
In addition to all of these things happening for a candidate to get voted into office he or she must also get a good turnout at the polls. It varies majorly on which office they are running for. See not that many come to the poles for the primary elections nor the presidential midterm elections. More often than not the most people will go to the polls to vote for the president in the general elections. Anytime a major election such as re-voting the president into office or voting for a new president, that is when the most voters come to the polls, this makes it crucial for candidates to support the topics that may appease both republicans and democratic because both sides can vote in the general election for any candidate.
As far as whether or not it is better to have a low turnout of voters at the polls or a high number, I’d say it depended on what type of voters they were. If you had a low turnout but they truly voted for the candidate that would best serve them as a citizen and voted because they supported the candidates’ views, then that would be fine. See what you don’t want is an extremely high turnout or even just a high turnout, but a majority of those who came to vote voted on a candidate because of their name, or family history, or how many times they saw their name in the community that would be a horrible thing. Those people would outnumber those who truly knew the candidate they were supporting, thus elected a candidate that would not serve the public best. This is part of the reason crooked or flat out horrible people get elected into offices. Because of their family name, or popularity, or looks or whatever it may be none of those are the true reasons for voting someone into office.
Political Action Committee is private groups that raises and distributes funds for use in election campaigns. There has been millions raised over the years through these committees however it is being overshadowed by soft money. This unlike soft money is still legal because there is a limit as to how much you may receive from PAC’s, whereas soft money has no limit. This is what contributed to PAC’s is over shadowed by soft money yet still legal today.
Political Parties play a role because people usually choose a side and support the candidate that supports that side. For example, in the primary election you walk into the voting house and the first thing you’re asked is “would you like a democratic or republican ballet?” This forces you to only be able to vote for the candidate that has your same political party stance; which leads to political parties playing a major role in which candidates advance. Once you enter the general election political parties play a smaller role, because anybody can vote for any candidate, this is where it becomes important to vote for candidates’ views not simply because of his “political party stance”.