Election 2000

As generations pass, and times change, the people of the United States change as well. What may have been a major issue in the 1980 election might not have even concerned voters in 2000. Economic issues are continually changing with the times. Each election develops its own “personality.” Despite agreeing on some issues, the four major [later reduced to just two] candidates in the 2000 presidential election held different opinions on three major economic issues: tax reform, health …

…such as Pat Buchanan who himself has struggled to define his own positions and appeal to the American electorate. In reality, many have come to view our political system as a one party system, perhaps one with “two heads,” each of which espouses similar if not identical positions on virtually all major issues and has great difficulty in defining itself to the voting public therefore generating little excitement in the greatest democracy in the world.