On Jun 9, 2008, at 3:55 PM, Kristyne McDaniel wrote:
> This is not a "revolt". The voters never were interested in Obama in
> the
> first place, and they're not voting for president based on whether
> there is
> a "D" by their name.
Funny, it seems to me that they were participating as members of the
Democratic Party and their primary system for selecting a nominee for
President.
Perhaps you see it as cynically as Michael: they feel that they were
owed the nomination, and when they didn't win, they took their ball
and sulked home?
> The movement is vocal but not large. However, many of the voters for
> Clinton
> were independents and Republicans that aren't necessarily going to
> vote for
> Obama, because they see his candidacy as being very different from
> Clinton's
> campaign.
I didn't see a single Republican crossover being interviewed. The
typical line was "I've been a Democrat all my life, but I'm going to
vote for McCain rather than Obama!"
> The group that Obama will have the most trouble with is the
> experienced,
> practical person (female OR male) that wanted to see the first woman
> president, and can't see why yet another supremely qualified woman
> is being
> passed over by a younger and less experienced man.
This was a contest with rules that were agreed upon at the outset;
the only one looking to change them was Clinton. When you enter the
contest, you know that there is a very good chance that you will not
win. Clinton is not the only one who did not get the nomination who
wanted it.
To say that your preference for president is predicated on that
person having a vagina is the height of sexism. And to claim that the
only reason that people like me who started out supporting Clinton and
then switched to Obama is somehow based on sexism is insulting and
demeaning, and makes what you have to say infinitely less interesting.
-- Ed Leafe
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