A little social experiment...

[whytheheckme]

Originally Posted by Pavan

At our school, there was a kid named Pedro who half of our graduating class knows nothing about....Anyways he beat this overachiever who everybody knows about by a landslide which is unfortunate....I guess the slogan vote for Pedro was soo original that he won some creativity points for that? (This was in '05 during the elections for sophomore president.)

Sometimes I fear for the fate of this country...I think all you need to win president of the US of A is to rename yourself Pedro, and you've already won without trying due to the amount of idiots outnumbering people with some care in the world. Fortunately and unfortunately I think voting for Pedro is the only way to get young Americans to vote.

Time to end my rant on society...
Pavan.

Originally Posted by Budda648

On the contrary, I think this is pretty cool. The little guy winning in a popularity contest is awesome. The guy probably didn't need anymore college credentials if he was an overachiever. So what his name was Pedro, he just used some common phrase. If my name were Ike and I ran for SGA then I would definitely use the "I like Ike" phrase.

Originally Posted by John Gutmann

Well what happens if both canidates are name pedro?

-John

I think that Pavan's point is that perhaps Pedro wasn't the most qualified person running. Or not even. He just won by his slogan (according to what Pavan said). I massively agree with this, from personal experience. In my case however, it was through 'racial profiling', not used in a negative sense.

My school is 70% minority, 30% white. I am white. I ran for president with a much stronger platform (in my opinion ) than either of the other candidates. I lost, by about 65%. I think that this is natural, and probably unavoidable. This kind of goes into a current event; The current presidential elections. Is the reason there has never been an African American president because no good candidates have ever run? This is a question that I often ponder.

I'm not meaning to start a debate about racial profiling here, it was just an example.

Just some thoughts,
Jacob