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I live in New York, and will be headed out to vote for Obama this afternoon. I spent a long time feeling unsure about which candidate was the best choice. But a lot of what I’ve read on your site helped me make up my mind. (Though the final piece of the puzzle, what cemented it for me for good, was this video.)

This mixture of feeling optimistic because there is a candidate in the field who might ACTUALLY be an amazing leader, and the anxiety of the possibility that Democrats will, once again, snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, is sheer torture. Seriously.

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[…] Today Mighty God King tackles Super Tuesday, and I’m buying what he’s selling. As a candidate, however, Hillary Clinton is, bluntly, terrible. It doesn’t matter how intelligent and capable and even charming she is; she comes into the presidential election with slightly less than half of the electorate utterly unwilling to vote for her. [source] […]

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malakim2099 said on February 5th, 2008 at 11:39 am

Voted last week in the primary (we do early voting as an option here), and yeah, had to go for Obama. Of course, if I’m still living in Utah come November, it won’t matter…

I love my presidential vote being absolutely worthless thanks to the electoral college! IT IS TEH AWESOMEST THING EVAR!

Ironically, I get a decent say in the primary, but what can you do? Aside from petition to change.

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Thanks.

I don’t get to vote today but I’ll be caucusing on Saturday. I’m excited to vote for the first time in a long time.

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I voted for Obama this morning, from sunny California.

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Just got in from voting. I live, or rather, exist, in the Deep South, so if you hear about Obama actually getting a single vote down here, well, that would be me.

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I normally vote along conservative lines, but I’m voting for Obama today. There was a repeat of a talking head show this weekend in which Dennis Miller, in a interview from June of last year, said the reason liberal talk radio’s audience is only a fraction of conservative talk radio’s audience is because liberal talk radio in the U.S. sounds pessimistic. I think that explains a big part of Obama’s popularity and enthusiasm among voters; they see him as the first viable liberal candidate in a long time because he conveys an attitude of real optimism. He’s also the first genuine 21st century candidate, and a lot of people are hoping his generation will mark an end to the toxic boomer politics of both left and right.

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I don’t agree much with his political positions — Bush wiretapping public phone lines to stop the eeeeevil terrorists is uberscary doomness, but house-to-house searches to stop the eeeeevil guns and mandatory mental health screenings to stop the eeeeevil veterans matches constitutional protections perfectly? — but at least he doesn’t give the same “actor” feeling that a lot of other politicos do.

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“Give one man enough power and he can change the world for the better or the worse – we know this. So I assume those who level this accusation believe Obama incapable of living up to such expectations.

True, maybe he can’t do it. But – and I say this wholly convinced of the truth of it – unlike any presidential candidate in at least the last twenty years, he’s got a shot.”

What if he gets that power, but ends up sending us in a bad direction? Then it’ll be unfortunate that he’s charismatic. Like Reagan. I’m just sayin’.

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