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To: rtsimon

My younger sister has said all along that she will vote for Hillary, solely based on the fact that Hillary will be the first woman running for president. I do not underestimate the power of the sentimental vote when it comes to Hillary.

Not to mention, there are people that think the long-suffering Senator deserves to be repaid in kind and sent to the WH.

Then there are those who get a kick out of the Clintons triumphant return to the WH, where the two of them will tag-team the nation.

ALL of these reasons to vote for Hillary seem pitiful to me. How people can blythely just toss away the gravity of an election and vote based on sentimentality makes my blood boil.


52 posted on 11/10/2006 3:53:54 AM PST by Pan_Yans Wife
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To: Pan_Yans Wife
ALL of these reasons to vote for Hillary seem pitiful to me. How people can blythely just toss away the gravity of an election and vote based on sentimentality makes my blood boil.

A very large number of Americans don't believe that who sits in the Oval Office has any direct impact on their daily lives - it's just another MTV Music Awards ceremony to them. But if Hillary wins, they will learn better.

75 posted on 11/10/2006 5:25:10 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ("When the government is invasive, the people are wanting." -- Tao Te Ching)
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To: Pan_Yans Wife
My younger sister has said all along that she will vote for Hillary, solely based on the fact that Hillary will be the first woman running for president. I do not underestimate the power of the sentimental vote when it comes to Hillary.

And you shouldn't. Also anecdotely, a woman I work with also has said she'll vote for Billary. This woman has a masters degree in Electical Engineering and is from Mass. I was talking a little politics with her and she wasn't sure if she was on the right, or the left--because she didn't know what it meant ot be on either side!!

84 posted on 11/10/2006 6:21:44 AM PST by subterfuge (Tolerance has become the greatest virtue, and hypocrisy the worst character defect.)
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To: Pan_Yans Wife
Hi, Pan_Yans Wife! I haven't talked to you in a while...

So sorry about your sister:

My younger sister has said all along that she will vote for Hillary, solely based on the fact that Hillary will be the first woman running for president. I do not underestimate the power of the sentimental vote when it comes to Hillary.

She'll learn. I hope this isn't something she learned from Her Heinous herself. Or maybe I do....

Anyone remember Shirley Chisholm in 1972?

The 1972 Democratic National Convention in Miami was the first major convention in which any woman was considered for the presidential nomination. Although she did not win the nomination, she received 151 of the delegates' votes.

138 posted on 11/11/2006 3:57:14 PM PST by Watery Tart (“…everybody is entitled to their own opinions, but not to their own facts.” --Tony Snow)
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