“in which case you should vote for the candidate that supports as many of your positions that you deem important.”

Very well said.

If I might venture an answer to your question. If outsourcing is the most important issue on the table to you, then by all means vote for the pro-outsourcing candidate. However, having read many of your comments I would venture to say that you don’t necessarily vote on a single issue, in which case you should vote for the candidate that supports as many of your positions that you deem important.

I reject your loaded premise and then I refer you to comment #43 by Ritam.

You still haven’t helped with my/our dillema, which I pose below, once again.
In 2008,

Most people don’t start considering such questions until a few weeks before an election; you’re trying to help your wife figure out whom to vote for in ’08? Impressive.

You still haven’t helped with my/our dillema, which I pose below, once again.

In 2008, If the Democratic Presidential candidate (like Kerry in 04) rants against outsourcing to India, but the Republican candidate (like Bush in 04) is A OK with outsourcing to India…who should we vote for?

Isn’t that what the Indian guy in the attack ad above was doing?

No, I can’t vote, yet. But I can listen, think, speak, write, influence my peers. No?

Anyhow, I was asking for the benefit of my wife, who like you is a genuine American and can vote. She is too busy, however, (lazy, if you ask me) to do the research. Thus my query.

Kritic, It depends, in some Republican controlled districts, as an immigrant, you wouldn’t be allowed to vote anyway. That’s assuming you are even a U.S. citizen which isn’t obvious to me given that you seem to view everything through the lens of Indian Nationalism.

An irrelevant question. Outsourcing/offshoring to India/China will continue regardless of the outcome of the election. That is, if major American corporations wish to remain competitive in the business arena. And of course they do.

American companies will simply not be able to compete if they were not allowed to outsource. Foreign companies who could outsource freely would walk all over them.