Two months ago I agonized on who I would vote for and only decided on Obama in the hours before I voted. Now that Clinton has won PA, I feel the same sinking feeling I felt when Kerry lost in 04. What happened? Trivers talks a lot about the effect of self deception once a decision has been made, is that happening to me now? Am I blocking out all that Clinton has going for her simply because I have made my decision and don't want to expend the mental energy to give her a second look? In her defense, I still cringe when I hear people, more often Democrats now than Republicans, criticize her ambition and life choices.
Another heartening point is how Clinton has survived despite so much talk about Obama's momentum and the vast number of endorsements and editorials in his favor. Every one of PA's newspapers endorsed him over Clinton and every celebrity and political endorsement in the past several days and weeks have been for followed the same path, but the voters still went for Clinton. I'm glad that people do not appear to be the sheep that I sometimes feel they are.
2 comments:
David, you have never been a sheep and I don' think that you are being now. I think that you are seeing a lot of middle-age, middle-class white people struggling with the idea of voting for a black man even though he is clearly the better candidate that is attempting to elevate our political discourse. But instead you have so many people focusing on bullshit instead of the issues. Hell even the press called ABC out on the recent debate that was filled with everything BUT the issues of the tanking economy, the war, the environment, our dwindling resources, our horribly harmed international standing, and the immense damage that has been done to our system of government by this administration.
maybe you have overlooked the actual shephard-the governor or the unions, perhaps. Or maybe wnat we are seeing is the ghost of shepharding past. Don't overestimate the US voting public. They elected Bush-twice-and they will elect McCain this fall.
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