Are People Voting for Obama or Against Hillary?
Which Emotions Will Fill the Ballot Box?
Barack Obama recently won the South Carolina primary with 55% of the vote while Hillary Clinton got 27%. Obama has also picked up the endorsements of the American royalty of the Kennedy's and Oprah. Hillary has Bill Clinton whom she seems to only use when she needs it. Hillary Clinton brings the fiery emotion as she has since coming into public view back when Bill first ran. It seems to me that people either really love her or hate her and there is not much middle ground.
As a young voter in Texas during the Clinton administration, Hillary was almost a curse word. I have spent time in other parts of the country where people feel passionately that she is the only hope. Hillary has always seemed inflexible, cold, calculating and willing to do whatever it takes to accomplish her agenda. Obama comes off as being more willing to work with people and open to input.
I am an independent and voted for Perot in 1992 and though I tend to vote Republican I haven't seen a clear leader yet. I do like Obama over Clinton but I wonder if I got that interested just for my dislike of Hillary. I also wonder as she campaigns how many people are voting against her rather than for her opponent whomever that will be.
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Post a CommentBut that darn Patriot Act vote bothered me. I do however feel that he is willing to serve and do the people's will. If elected I feel he will be an inspiring and motivating leader, such as we have not seen since I was a child. So yes I voted for him. Not perfect, but close enough. I also noticed Perot has given him an endorsement tonight as well as one of my favorite authors, Toni Morrison. Ted Kennedy's speech was awesome. He impressed me by his smack down of the Clinton mean machine. Obama has a good reputation in Congress and even he and Hillary worked well together. She has turned it all into ugliness and division. Kennedy more than any knows what the country needs and who can deliver it.
You have nicely summed up the two candidates core personalities. I registered Democrat. If Hillary were not running I might have remained my apathetic self. Can not fight the system and the rich and powerful, you see. She has told us that she knows what is going on in DC, wants what is best for the country and chides Obama for giving the people "false hope". So, I guess I can kill myself now rather than later, eh. So yeah I am voting against her. I did some hard thinking on all the candidates~well, not all most of them were easy to eliminate like most all Republicans and Hillary was not at all acceptable to me. (Code Pink-Iraq; do not want impeached ex-Pres back in White House, either). If she had not played her "boys are beating me up" sob, sob game to swing votes, I may have voted for Kucinich. I think Obama is great; his unique background seems to make him tailor made for the job.