The day After
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This is the day after super Tuesday. I was surprised and perhaps disapointed at how wrong many members of the press were regarding thier predictions. I was pleased to see how well Hillary did. The media has been against her from the beginning. The campaign now moves on to several other states including Texas. We didn't expert to play much of a role but that has all changed now.
I studied our demographics this morning and compared these demographics to California and Florida. BOTH candidates better plan to have ads that are in Spanish here in Texas. In Texas we likely have a higher percentage of Hispanics who speak English in their home than even California as California’ s stats must account for their 12% Asian population. Both candidates better push up their appeals to the poor in Texas as we have higher than the national average living at the edge of poverty as does California.
Here are a few facts about our demographics. Our population is young. Only 9% of us are over 65 compared to a national average of 12.4%. We are even younger than California whose percentage is 10.8% of those over 65. We have a larger percentage of blacks than California. We have a slightly lower percentage of females than either the national average or California.
Also, I am a 50 year old white woman voting for Hillary because she is in my opinion the most qualified. I am not a racist as I have voted for many black candidates in my lifetime but in this election you are deemed politically incorrect if you say anything negative in any way about Obama or anything positive about Clinton as you will be deemed racist.
Why is it okay for blacks to vote over 90% in some states for Obama and they are not racist? When not long ago they were for Clinton - surely they did not change all their minds in such a short time because of the issues.
Democrats have to be able to really tell it like it is and stop trying to always being afraid to say anything that may be deemed "racist".
Hillary is just the most qualified - period. Obama should be V.P. and that way he will gain experience then run for President again.
We will take the White House without division of our party if the ticket is Clinton/Obama.