Super-Duper-Tsunami-Tuesday is (thankfully) behind us now. Did anybody learn something uplifting or exciting from all this? ‘Cuz I didn’t.
I have a couple of thoughts, though:
Somehow, 4% of the voters in California and Tennessee, and 10% of Oklahomans (!?!) voted for John Edwards. Is that just from the early-voting? Or did all these people not get the memo that he dropped out?
And what’s with the Huckabee support? I mean… he’s all over the map with his ideas, but he won 4 states outright yesterday, and narrowly lost in several others. Yet this is a guy who thinks we should align the Constitution to the Bible, but simultaneously thinks federal judges legislate from the bench; A guy who says he’ll eliminate all income taxes, but will expand the defense budget and pay for it with the “increase in federal tax revenue that is generated annually as Americans’ incomes rise”.
Hello? Who are you people? Can you explain this to me? What are you seeing in him? Is this all about religion?
Obama and Clinton are going to go right down to the wire, it seems, and the longer the battle goes on, the more depressing the demographic results are to me. The majority of men, both white and black, are voting for Obama, while white women are overwhelmingly in the Hillary camp. And the hispanic voters are displaying a serious ethnic slant.
It feels (to me) as if American society is not nearly as free from racial-, ethnic-, or gender-bias as we’d hoped. Or at least, as I had hoped — and I’m pretty disappointed with “us” this morning, all the way around.
So what do y’all think about the primary results thus far? Any cheerful thoughts? Now would be a good time to share them…