Madsen: Deciding how to vote isn’t easy

How will you decide who earns your vote? It isn’t any easier to discriminate fairly between candidates now than it was two centuries ago. Everyone claims to hate it, but negative campaigning works. Mudslinging goes back to when there may have been real mud involved; in 1828, there were attacks on Andrew Jackson’s military record, his wife’s untimely divorce and his mother’s ostensible profession as a prostitute. John Quincy Adams was accused of stealing the 1824 election and pimping for Czar Alexander I. Actual mud would have been an improvement. Negative campaigning works on fear, and uncontrolled fear is a poor decision driver/ Sue Lani Madsen , SR. More here.

Question: How do you decide whom to vote for?