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Doesn’t it seem like every presidential election heats up earlier than the last one? The 2012 election is still over a year away but candidates are doing whatever it takes it get ahead of the competition.

Yes, it’s always better to be prepared, but is it possible to enter too early?

If somebody announces his candidacy too early, is he hurting himself by giving voters more time to get to know him, see his flaws, and dislike him? By throwing your name into the hat early, are you not just providing more time the voters and media to dig up dirt?

Isn’t it best to fly under the radar while doing all the prep work before throwing your hat in the ring? That way, when a candidate announces his candidacy for the White House, he’ll be like a breath of fresh air. All the voters will be tired of all hearing of all the other candidates and it’ll be nice for them to have another option.

A political party loves it when one of its members is in the White House for a first term, seeking a second. That’s the current situation for the Democrats who hope to re-elect President Obama. Even though people know who he is and they have seen him in the White House since 2009, party members will stick with him since he was their ticket in the first place and they’re riding the momentum.

As of right now, we know former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and Representative Michele Bachmann and others have already thrown their names in the hat to run. Texas Governor Rick Perry is set to make his official announcement Saturday and former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty has yet to decide whether or not he’ll take a shot at it.

A question to ask is whether or not Bachmann, Romney and Perry announced their candidacy too early. Will Republicans be tired of them when the time comes to pick a candidate to run against Obama? If Pawlenty does run, when should he announce his decision?

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At last it is victory for the “Pirates” in Massachusetts after their hard work. The Massachusetts Election Division finally said “YES” to the Massachusetts Pirate Party as a political designation. A voter in the state is now allowed to register as a “Pirate”. The United States Pirate Party that was organized in 2006 passed through a long recognition process. It took some time for this party to be recognized.

With the party being given its legal status, they can start working toward their vision and mission. The party is known as having its own set of ideals and trying to live up to them. They aspire to “increase government transparency, promote personal privacy, reinforce the spread of knowledge through copyright reform, and abolish patents.”

Personal privacy is one of the foremost areas of reform that the party strives to enhance. It is against the government’s intensification in surveillance and power over its citizens just by citing the 9/11 incident. The government is curtailing the privacy of people through the PATRIOT ACT, wiretapping, surveillance cameras and more. In addition, corporations intensified their spying in order to get more effort out of their personnel.

A different area of worry is government transparency. The party strives to advocate citizens having control of their democratic future. This can be accomplished if people know what the government is doing and which special interests are influencing public elected officials. There seems to be a decreasing openness by government in abiding by open meetings. There are closed door deals that back mostly corporations. Public information is also sold to private interests; all of these are harmful to democracy and privacy.

The Massachusetts Pirate Party has issued a statement, stressing that the government no longer gives people the chance to live up to the old principles. There is no focus on the ideals of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. They also commented about how corporations have overcome the people, with the government intensifying their power. The party hopes that these ideals should be lived once more and be real for all.

As announced by the party’s organizer, the party is in the process of training activists. Once completed, they will work for coordinating and building local chapters. The first move is killing the Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act (COICA). The government should not be empowered to “take down any web domain found to host copyrighted material without permission”. Next, it will be taking a look at legislation’s that it should support or oppose. There is so much hope that the party will find its bright future in Massachusetts.

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