i also think many of the younger voters will not vote for hillary. we've all been paying attention and we know the real hillary. why would i vote for the lesser candidate? why would i vote for someone who stole the election? that's what george bush did. what purpose does that serve? only obama offers fundamental change. if not that, then government doesn't matter much.
so what, we get another four miserable years with either hillary or mccain. hillary would be marked by scandals the moment she took office because of her long political history. she'd have to pay back so many favors. she'd never, ever pass universal healthcare. never. she'd have to renege on most of her promises. she has made so many just to get people to vote for her.
mccain might not have the option of keeping us at war for 100 years. the homefront needs more resources and the only way to get access to more money is to end the war.
maybe after four awful years we'd really be hurting and ready to put aside our prejudices and vote for obama. i can batten down the hatches for four years.
i'd rather be among the thousands, maybe millions, who would sit on the sidelines, or maybe take to the streets. i guess ralph nader is always an option.
Michelle Moore, an Indianapolis housewife, is less gentle: "Hillary Clinton would not even still be in the race if Obama was a white man," she said.
Her tough tone was common this week in this city's black community. Why, people asked, is the Illinois senator's relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright being judged so harshly? Why won't Democratic Party officials acknowledge that Obama's in the lead and unite around him?
African-Americans have been the Democratic Party's most reliable bloc, giving about 90 percent of their votes to former Vice President Al Gore and Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., in the last two presidential elections.
In a close election this year, an African-American exodus from the voting booth could be costly to Democrats, particularly in the South, where blacks are a large proportion of the electorate.
If Obama isn't the nominee, "there would be a significant number of African-Americans who would stay home. They're not voting for (presumptive Republican nominee) John McCain," predicted David Bositis, a senior analyst at for Political and Economic Studies, which researches black voting trends.
