Game Change Miles Lynn

Miles Lynn

3/16/17

Ap Gov’t/Politics

Game Change

Why is political vetting so important?

• It is important to do because knowing who you are getting one you hire a candidate is crucial to your election. It is the same reasoning behind doing background checks for job, because people want to know what your history is. When you're running for office your life becomes an open book, and everyone is going to be looking into your past. No one would want someone with a checkered history, so they deny or expect based on the life you’ve lived. Without vetting, all types of people would become candidates for positions, who maybe, have a terrible past and no one would know, until it got uncovered by the media. It would look very bad for everyone in that campaign. That is way vetting is important.

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I agree that governors of some states are more “knowledgeable” or “qualified”, because, specifically with Alaska, someone from there is going to be very different for someone in the main 48 states. Different meaning, thinking wise, they are very far away from the mainstream of everything. So someone who lives here, and deals with the problems every day, to someone who lives far away from the area, and doesn’t deal with it much is going to seem less “qualified” or “knowledgeable”. Now I don’t think that means they shouldn’t be taken seriously, all I am saying is someone that lives in Alaska or Hawaii wouldn't necessarily be as qualified or knowledgeable.