History Is Made!
By SusanUnPC on January 9, 2008 at 1:06 PM in Clinton, Women and Children
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is the first woman in U.S. history to win a presidential primary.
History is indeed made. You can tell your daughters, granddaughters, nieces and grand-nieces that you witnessed a historic win by a woman.
From a wonderful diary at MyDD:
… I also think, as bored as the MSM was with Clinton’s long Q&A sessions, they had an impact. We saw her at one and it was impressive in a completely different way than Obama. It was inspiring because she took an incredibly wide-range of questions on issues ranging from Bolivian stability (no, really) to her first 100 days and her depth of knowledge on almost everything was stunning. After almost eight years of having a president that can’t pronounce nuclear, it was – yes – inspiring. What can I say, I’m a geek at heart. And I don’t care what the MSM said, the crowd liked it. I think it definitely turned some voters. We saw a couple of college-aged women there who came in probably leaning Obama, definitely not Clinton, you could see it in their body language. Then Clinton talked about getting Plan B and they nodded. When she said she’d sign the stem cell research bill and reverse the gag order immediately upon taking office, they clapped and looked at each other like “hey, she’s pretty good!” I don’t know if they voted for her, but they came in pretty closed off and left open to her candidacy. (One of the other things I learned is that young voters have absolutely no idea of what Clinton has accomplished and old voters know nothing about Obama’s pre-campaign experience. It’s kind of weird given all the info that’s out there on both of them.)
Which brings me to the biggest thing I learned in NH. I tend not to romanticize politicians. I don’t think any of them are perfect. And even I, a Clinton supporter, fell for the MSM (and some bloggers like Yglesias’s view) that Clinton doesn’t have a passionate base of support. That could not be further from the truth. I cannot tell you how many older women invited us into their homes to see news clippings of Clinton displayed everywhere. Who told us how much they loved her. And it wasn’t always older women or even just women.
We met a single mother in her 30s, clearly struggling financially and in other ways, she had only voted once in her life and that was for Bill Clinton. She got a Christmas card from Hillary (how they found her, I have no idea because she wasn’t registered to vote in NH, having not bothered after moving there and we just happened to run into her on the street when she saw our shirts). All she could talk about was that Christmas card and how much Hillary had helped children and how Bush had cut Head Start. (BTW, I cannot tell you how many people invited me in to see the Hillary Clinton Christmas card – best investment of money ever.) I often see political talk as spin or sloganeering, but to this woman, Clinton’s talk about seeing people who were invisible rang true. She said that Clinton was the only one who had ever shown any concern about people like her. I told her that she could register the day of voting and pointed out her polling place within walking distance, she said she’d consider it (she seemed intimidated by voting, like she was afraid she’d screw it up). I would give anything to know if she voted or not. …
Read all. He was on the ground in New Hampshire, and it’s a fascinating story.
Taylor Marsh, as ALWAYS, nails it here: “Iron This.”
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