I'm voting for Sen. Barack Obama because I believe that he is the best candidate to help bring our country together and begin to solve the laundry list of problems created or enhanced by the current administration.
As a white woman, I'm sure some reporter will write that I'm voting for Obama because I don't want another woman to be successful or because I'm afraid of what a woman president might do, neither of which is true.
Stories that take a small margin of victory (e.g., 55 percent vs. 45 percent) among a particular demographic to imply that a candidate who gets 45 percent of the vote in the primary wouldn't be able to win the general election, fail to acknowledge that the Democratic Party currently has two strong candidates.
Once we have selected our nominee, many who voted for the other nominee will vote for the Democratic candidate. By continuing to divide our country into a demographic pie (53 percent of left-handed, beer-drinking accountants in North Carolina are voting for...), the media only make it more difficult for our next president to begin to reunite our sharply divided country.
- Michelle J., Sacramento
http://www.sacbee.com/110/story/888905.html
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