people are trying to discount the youth vote as fickle. as one person put it: "They are all excited about him, and they don't have any staying power. If Obama doesn't get the nomination, do they get angry again and crawl back into their apathetic hole?"
see, it's not like that.
i think young people and others who support obama aren't necessarily party affiliated. we may be on paper because we have to be to vote. but we're not entrenched in that partisan mindset. we are looking forward to the new politics that obama offers.
if clinton is the nominee, why vote for her? just because she's the democratic nominee? i don't think so. i've based my decision on the person, not the party. it's not that i'm apathetic, but why would i vote for someone who i thought would be a bad leader? just to go along with the party? that doesn't mean anything to me.
i'm not voting for obama because he's a democrat, or the best of two democrats. i'm voting for his leadership.
