Comments on: Don’t Worry, It’s Not a Big College Town

By: VWgal

VWgal — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:35:34 +0000

Joel said it perfectly.

By: zumzum

zumzum — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:05:14 +0000

Tedski, that’s exactly what they’re thinking over in Hillaryland. There are essentially 2 types of active Democrats: Party insiders and activists. The former group is comprised of big donors, professional consultants, non-profit types, and miscellaneous cocktail party chatterers. Nothing wrong with these folks, but they operate in a rarified little bubble where they pretty much only encounter people like themselves. This creates an echo chamber wherein they are able to believe fairy tales like “Hillary Clinton isn’t a polarizing figure anymore. Everyone’s gotten past it now. Once people get to know her better they’ll like her. They will!”

The latter group are the people who knock on doors, make the phone calls, and do all the grunt work that gets candidates elected. We also talk to regular people. All the time. We see how much she is still loathed by a not insignificant group of people. They haven’t gotten over it and they will come out to vote against her, with a vengeance. For god’s sake, they’re still fighting the Civil War in parts of this country, and yet these people think that wingnuts will forget they hate “Hitlery”.

They thought they were going to thrust Queen Hillary upon us and the dumb yokels in the flyovers would just get in line because the name is Clinton. They miscalculated. And if she gets the nod I will at least console myself with the prospect of those Clintonistas having to put lots unaccustomed miles on their expensive shoes.

By: Joel Foster

Joel Foster — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:56:18 +0000

I’ve known Dana for years and she is as committed as anyone at getting everyone to vote, whether they’re supporting her chosen candidate or not.

I have no doubt about Dana’s commitment to the youth vote.

By: Dana

Dana — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:22:28 +0000

Now give me a break- I want the young people to vote and I love that they turned out in Iowa and New Hampshire and I hope they do in every state. The point I was trying to make is who is registered is registered, you can’t register the day of the election. The point I was trying to make is that senior women actually younger than senior women in Arizona is a very large block of voters and the youth block is not as large to pull out a win for Obama. This is just a prediction. If you read my posts from being in Iowa I was excited about the huge surge in voter turn out and I would guess this will continue. I am proudly supporting Hillary, I am a volunteer that’s it. At the end of the day I am a loyal democrat that has volunteered thousands of hours to get people to vote. That is and always will be my number one priority for democrats to vote. Including the young people. I was only making a prediction…to think I am not wanting young people to turn out and vote is far from realitiy.

By: Stan

Stan — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:21:13 +0000

You are completely right Tedski. Senators’ Obama and Clinton both won with the youth vote. Its disheartening to see people dismiss reasons why they won.