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Who should I vote for: the party or the face?

Ever since elections were being announced, one question that has been bothering me is who I should vote for: the party or the face? Really, finding an answer to this question was a tough fight. While my mind kept telling me that go with the party my heart insisted go with the face. And ultimately my heart overpowered my brain—I went with the face and decided to vote for someone, whose parties’ ideologies I don’t readily believe in but that person however looked promising. I have had long conversation about the same with my sister, who was against my thoughts of voting for the face. She said, “Don’t you know the man you opt for is not going to govern your locality. By selecting a man whose party’s ideology you don’t believe in you would be giving a chance to the party, you don't really wanna come to power? Do you want that?” No, that is not what I want, but I also can’t vote for someone just because he belongs to a party, he must have certain qualities of his own right? Qualificat...