ITA on the Mrs. Clinton stuff. WHAT has she been thinking?!? Or Smoking?!?
And yet, as I said to jdulac above, I appreciate her specificity in her answers to healthcare for example. Obama may be more electable because his experience has not been the typical black experience -- growing up in Hawaii changes things, for instance. I just wish I felt comfortable with him. It doesn't help that the people I talk to about him talk about the inspirational nature of his speaking, but rarely seem to be able to answer a question on his specific policies. It may lose him some of the older vote that a person needs to go to his website to find out more about his policy ideas. My mother, for one, won't vote for him for that reason.
I disagree vehemently that your opinions and actions don't count. They do. Vote. Get your friends to vote. Go to your local Boys and Girls Club and get the members who will be 18 by election day to register and vote.
Especially at the representative level, your vote COUNTS. My dad came up with a list of representatives who won their seats by fewer than 1000 votes in the 2006 by-elections. One of -- I want to say in Vermont, but don't quote me -- won by fewer than 10 votes. If just 11 of his opponent's supporters had gotten up and voted on their way to work that morning the district he represents would be writing to someone else to complain about their taxes.
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I disagree vehemently that your opinions and actions don't count. They do. Vote. Get your friends to vote. Go to your local Boys and Girls Club and get the members who will be 18 by election day to register and vote.
Especially at the representative level, your vote COUNTS. My dad came up with a list of representatives who won their seats by fewer than 1000 votes in the 2006 by-elections. One of -- I want to say in Vermont, but don't quote me -- won by fewer than 10 votes. If just 11 of his opponent's supporters had gotten up and voted on their way to work that morning the district he represents would be writing to someone else to complain about their taxes.