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Originally Posted by LindseyChick

What would that mean, to elect a Muslim as president? Would that mean the Jihad was off? The troops could come home? It would be interesting. Let's, instead, vote a woman in.. Come on, guys... you know the women in your life have ruled. Did mom not wake you up every morning, put breakfast on the table, pack your lunch and send you off to school? So why not let a woman run the country? What do you have to lose? I can't believe that Hillary's White House would be much different than Bill's.. and during Bill's White House rule, he erased the national deficit to zero, we had not been involved in a war in 8 years and gas was under one dollar a gallon. I voted for Hillary today. I hope you do, too.

Are you being facetious about Obama? You do know he's not Muslim, right? Don't believe everything you read/hear. Someone told me "I won't vote for him cuz he's unpatriotic. I hear he refuses to say the Pledge of Allegiance!" I looked into it - he was photographed during the National Anthem, standing quietly & respectfully like you're supposed to do. It wasn't the Pledge of Allegiance, so he didn't have his hand over his heart & wasn't reciting it. Someone spread the rumour that he refused to put his hand over his heart & recite the pledge. And people believed it. It's just sad.

And I don't think we should base our decision on past presidents' performances. I agree that things were much better under Bill Clinton (for me, anyway) but that doesn't mean things will automatically be great under Hillary.

Originally Posted by LindseyChick

So you get my passion regarding this. She is my choice. David Crosby once said "what's more personal than your political beliefs?" I hope she wins.

I'm glad you're passionate, but I'm a bit alarmed that you seem to be basing your vote ONLY on 1) your misinformation about Obama and 2) the fact that Hillary is a woman. I don't dislike her, I think she's done a pretty good job as our Senator, but I looked into her ideas/plans & like Obamas better. I wish people wouldn't base their vote soley on race, or sex, or religion, or some rumour they heard. That's why I think the dems might be in trouble no matter who gets the nod - lots of people will vote for the older white male, just because he's the OLDER WHITE MALE.

What if Hillary gets the nomination & picks Obama as her vice president? What will you do then?

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

So, she has won Florida, Michigan, New York, New Jersey, and California - - and many more significant states --- she will win - like it or not because how can you get elected without those states - esp. if Obama is her running mate, which I think he will be

The delegate count is very close right now, even with her winning the larger states.

And do you think they will run together? I hope that's a possibility. Do you think they will no matter what scenario - Clinton/Obama OR Obama/Clinton?

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

I agree that it will be a fight to the end. And, I voted for Obama here in Georgia, where he got something like 40% of the white vote.

One of the news stations put up some statistics & they found that Hillary was still getting the majority of democratic white female votes (around 60/40) BUT he was getting the majority of democratic white MALE votes, also about 60/40. That pleasantly surprised me.