I disagree strongly with your vague criticisms of Clinton's health care plans, and frankly I question your decision to describe "friends involved in medicine" as "sources you trust". Universal health care is currently my single biggest voting issue, and as far as I can tell is Obama's worst position. His "if we make it affordable people will get it" has never rung true for me
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Ultimately I decided that McCain was the least bad republican I've seen in a long time, so "Not the other guy" was not my most significant voting issue (as it usually is), so I voted for Clinton.
That said, I feel like Clinton's dirt is all very public and everyone knows about it.
One interesting thing I've noticed about many Clinton supporters is how they assume that every candidate must have some kind of horrible negatives and that compromising your principles is a necessary part of the political game.
I think the most attackable thing about Barak is also something that is a big strength, which is the significant amount of time he's spent outside of the US, especially when he was very young. It's possible (probably even likely) that Republicans will use this to imply that he's not 'one of us', which is their biggest way of getting people on their side.
"This will make the race in November difficult, even in a year where you'd expect the Democratic party should win in a landslide on . . . the economy . . ."
I tend to be the 'living under a rock' sort when it comes to being politically in the know, so could you tell me in what ways the economy is a clear Democratic strong point currently? Is there a general economic downturn I haven't been aware of?
So I went to mine, up in Wedgewood: Home of the Little Old Ladies, hoping to caucus for Obama and cancel out some of the women-over-60 vote for Clinton. But it wasn't there. I mean, the women-over-60 were there, but the Clinton support was dismal. Initial and final numbers were 71% for Obama, winning our precinct delegates 5-2.
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*points enthusiastically* what he said folks!
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Ultimately I decided that McCain was the least bad republican I've seen in a long time, so "Not the other guy" was not my most significant voting issue (as it usually is), so I voted for Clinton.
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That said, I feel like Clinton's dirt is all very public and everyone knows about it.
One interesting thing I've noticed about many Clinton supporters is how they assume that every candidate must have some kind of horrible negatives and that compromising your principles is a necessary part of the political game.
I think the most attackable thing about Barak is also something that is a big strength, which is the significant amount of time he's spent outside of the US, especially when he was very young. It's possible (probably even likely) that Republicans will use this to imply that he's not 'one of us', which is their biggest way of getting people on their side.
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I tend to be the 'living under a rock' sort when it comes to being politically in the know, so could you tell me in what ways the economy is a clear Democratic strong point currently? Is there a general economic downturn I haven't been aware of?
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/09/us/politics/09web-redburn.html
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How did yours go?
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