It's Super-Duper Tuesday, as they say.
I haven't been this twisted up about an election in... ever. Which, okay, is saying effectively nothing, but you see what I am trying to say.
California is pissing me the hell off. WTF HOME STATE. If anything this teaches me not to believe polls. I think a Zogby poll had Obama actually ahead of Clinton, which is not how it's shaping up to be. Still if he can remain competitive I will be a happy camper, which seems to be the case thus far.
WAH. I just feel like it's gonna be a whole big build-up to nothing, and I will be left an incurable cynic resigned to voting for Hillary Clinton in November.
All this talk about Latinos not supporting Obama has me kind of upset. The way I see it, NOBODY among the candidates has really spoken to Latino issues, so Clinton kind of wins among them by default (6 out of 10, so I hear) because she has name recognition.
And besides her politics, that is one thing that bothers me about her. She's where she is because of her husband. She's riding Bill Clinton's popularity. And while I certainly don't blame her for that, and think anyone with her kind of intelligence, experience, and overall competence would do the same, I can't help feeling that it's just not right. American politics is not supposed to be based on dynasties, I mean that's supposedly what our country was built on, right? Not having a monarchy and all that business. Yet here we have Bush senior and Bush junior, and now possibly Clinton part I and Clinton part II.
Well anyway. I was happy to get my voter reg card in the mail today, after being freaked out that they wouldn't let me transfer my registration from University Park to Garland in time.
On a final note, much has been about the whole sex/race issue in this election. People keep trying to make a big deal about how this shouldn't be about sex or race, and they're right, it should be about policy. But you can't really write demographics off like that. States like Georgia and South Carolina did go to Barack Obama easily because black voters there supported him. People seem to think there's something wrong with that, or even with suggesting that that is the reason he won. I don't think anyone would vote for him just because he is black and they are too, he has to have palatable policies. But there is something to be said for electing someone like yourself to head your government when you are an underrepresented and socially underprivileged minority. For all people ramble on about the importance of being color-blind, I really think appearances do matter. Whether we like to admit it or not, we judge people a lot by their race or gender. And the thing is, if you don't take that into account, you can't recognise that Barack Obama has really accomplished something here, getting the white votes that Jesse Jackson couldn't manage. Color is only one component, but I think it's an important one. (Seriously, if Bill Richardson had actually marketed himself as a Mexican-American, couldn't he have pulled in more votes than he managed? I didn't even remember that he was Latino until a few weeks ago!) But a black guy winning Iowa, Minnesota, Alaska? Some of the whitest freaking states in the country? That's really something.
And on that note, I'm pretty sure my mom's voting for Hillary Clinton, in no small part because she is a powerful woman. I'm not certain, but she doesn't seem to join in with my dad, my brother, and me in our Obama praises.
Well, I think it's about time to wrap up the political uberpost. Ya'll get out and vote March 4th, ya hear?
California is pissing me the hell off. WTF HOME STATE. If anything this teaches me not to believe polls. I think a Zogby poll had Obama actually ahead of Clinton, which is not how it's shaping up to be. Still if he can remain competitive I will be a happy camper, which seems to be the case thus far.
WAH. I just feel like it's gonna be a whole big build-up to nothing, and I will be left an incurable cynic resigned to voting for Hillary Clinton in November.
All this talk about Latinos not supporting Obama has me kind of upset. The way I see it, NOBODY among the candidates has really spoken to Latino issues, so Clinton kind of wins among them by default (6 out of 10, so I hear) because she has name recognition.
And besides her politics, that is one thing that bothers me about her. She's where she is because of her husband. She's riding Bill Clinton's popularity. And while I certainly don't blame her for that, and think anyone with her kind of intelligence, experience, and overall competence would do the same, I can't help feeling that it's just not right. American politics is not supposed to be based on dynasties, I mean that's supposedly what our country was built on, right? Not having a monarchy and all that business. Yet here we have Bush senior and Bush junior, and now possibly Clinton part I and Clinton part II.
Well anyway. I was happy to get my voter reg card in the mail today, after being freaked out that they wouldn't let me transfer my registration from University Park to Garland in time.
On a final note, much has been about the whole sex/race issue in this election. People keep trying to make a big deal about how this shouldn't be about sex or race, and they're right, it should be about policy. But you can't really write demographics off like that. States like Georgia and South Carolina did go to Barack Obama easily because black voters there supported him. People seem to think there's something wrong with that, or even with suggesting that that is the reason he won. I don't think anyone would vote for him just because he is black and they are too, he has to have palatable policies. But there is something to be said for electing someone like yourself to head your government when you are an underrepresented and socially underprivileged minority. For all people ramble on about the importance of being color-blind, I really think appearances do matter. Whether we like to admit it or not, we judge people a lot by their race or gender. And the thing is, if you don't take that into account, you can't recognise that Barack Obama has really accomplished something here, getting the white votes that Jesse Jackson couldn't manage. Color is only one component, but I think it's an important one. (Seriously, if Bill Richardson had actually marketed himself as a Mexican-American, couldn't he have pulled in more votes than he managed? I didn't even remember that he was Latino until a few weeks ago!) But a black guy winning Iowa, Minnesota, Alaska? Some of the whitest freaking states in the country? That's really something.
And on that note, I'm pretty sure my mom's voting for Hillary Clinton, in no small part because she is a powerful woman. I'm not certain, but she doesn't seem to join in with my dad, my brother, and me in our Obama praises.
Well, I think it's about time to wrap up the political uberpost. Ya'll get out and vote March 4th, ya hear?