I am rather surpised to find myself watching the New Hampshire primary results trickling in (54% in as I am writing this).
I don’t like to watch a lot of political news reporting because I find it boring and not representative of the issues I really care about. But tonight, as Clinton is holding a solid lead so far, I am excited. I feel like the tighter the race, the better prepared the final nominee will be to go into the big election next fall.
I will confess, after Obama won Iowa, I started to feel a little worried that maybe I should vote for Clinton instead. Honestly, if the plugged Bill’s very experienced team right back into action, I think I would be pretty happy. The Clinton years were a nice time in my life: jobs were plentiful, the economy felt safe, choice was not a huge issue, the environment wasn’t burning up in flames. Of course, this could have been that the Clinton years were a carefree time in my life. I was in high school and college so the world was my oyster. It was also back before we had so much school loan debt.
(I am not turning on Obama, though I would dump him to vote for his wife. As good of a speaker and as likeable as he is, Michelle Obama gives him a run for his money.)
The fact is, I would be happy to vote for any of the top Democratic candidates. The areas where they differ are not that significant to me, when you get right down to it. Once the primaries are over I will gladly campaign, donate and vote for the winner.
It is kind of an exciting time to be a Democrat.
Yeah, I’ve been listening to the NH results on NPR all evening. Love Edwards “concession” speech. This is the way it’s supposed to be-close races and tough choices. ~lmc
I agree. I was glad for Obama last week, and I’m happy for Hilary tonight. It’s all good.
It is a great time to be a Democrat. I would gladly vote for any of them tomorrow if I had to, even Bill Richardson! But I am very happy for Hillary tonight, too many in the media were counting her out and over with and I love the jolt this has given the race again.
I agree. As of now, I plan to vote for Obama, but I will not be sad if Hilary wins. I also think it’s a great time to be a democrat.
I think the Clinton years were great. If she is the nominee I will vote for her, but I hope that she is not the nominee.
I will vote for any of the democratic candidates, (I think they are all good choices) but I hope it’s Obama. I don’t know too much about Richardson, but he’s better than what the GOP has to offer.
as a nonamerican I can just read and cheer but boy would I be glad if you get yourself a democrat again..
I am reasonably happy with the three front-runners, too. I also like Obama best, but whatever. My only concern is electability. Then I think maybe an Edwards/Obama ticket would be best, but that doesn’t look like it will happen.
Yes, we do have some excellent candidates on the Democrat side, and YAY for that! I was once such a huge Hillary fan. HUGE. Then she voted over and over and over and over for the war, and I felt deeply betrayed. I haven’t gotten over it. So I’d prefer one of the other two. But if Hill makes it, I will vote for her. I admit I’m excited about the possibility of a woman president.
Still. The war thing.
I was upset with Clinton in regards to her Iraq war vote, still am. However you do make a good point about bringing back most of the Bill Clinton cabinet. I’m still leaning toward Obama, however, I would throw all my support toward Clinton if she wins the primaries.
I do think that she is getting a really raw deal in regards to media attention to gender stereotypes. So, dispite the fact that her Iraq business pissed me off, I do recognize that she is really under an unfair and inequitable amount of media scrutiny. During the debates, she got “too angry,” then the next day she was “too emotional” and had a “breakdown” when her voice cracked a bit. They would not be this analytical about a man (and they aren’t). People (most) are playing the Obama race thing pretty well. But it is still okay to knock Clinton based on gender stereotypes.
I will say that after the “emotional breakdown,” Obama was asked about it and refused to comment, whereas Edwards said some lame ass thing like, “you have to be tough to hold the office of the president.” (paraphrase). Anyway, I didn’t think that was cool on Edward’s part, but I thought Obama saw it for the shit question it was and was right to not play into that. So, he earned points from me there.
But it does look good to be a democrat, now. Even though I’m usually to the left of the part even. But I’ll take what I can get!
I watched the primary results too! I’m still on the fence, Obama or Hillary. But honestly, I will vote for whoever the winning dem candidate is. : )
Yes, I think it will actually be a good thing that a Democrat is most likely to win in Nov. Since the right-wing fundamentalists seem to have hijacked my formerly small-government, keep-the-public’s-nose-out-of-the-individual’s-business party, I just can’t get excited about anyone in the election. Sigh. Perhaps I shall start my own party.