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Obama vs. Clinton

edited March 2008 in General
Interesting observation on Facebook...

Barack Obama page has 665,000 supporters

Hillary Clinton page has 125,000 supporters

Consider the primary demographic that uses facebook when applying these numbers to the election campaign...

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  • IVTIVT
    edited March 2008
    Obama FTW. That is all.
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    its sad hes probably going to win the nomination on a bunch of over hyped promises

    hes just promising things he wont deliver its why hilary isnt winning too, she isnt making all these promises like him, its easy to polarize support like he does when you say the stuff he does that he wont deliver on...

    also facebook all young people as you pointed out, and even further a lot of the people in the obama groups are not even us citizens in addition to not being legal age
  • edited March 2008
    Who are these people?
  • edited March 2008
    the other party will win!
  • edited March 2008
    can u gamble on this at vegas? lol
  • edited March 2008
    JayDub;23927 said:
    Who are these people?
    LOL Yeah Why are we talking about Americans =P
  • edited March 2008
    Well, I don't think this indicates who is going to win...because facebook users (the ones that pay attention to politics at least) are younger, university students. I doubt this population of 1 million (thats if they all vote) will make a measurable difference in the outcome of the election. And going off the fact that what young people want is usually the complete opposite of what old people want...I would bet on Hillary.
  • edited March 2008
    vonnie;23931 said:
    LOL Yeah Why are we talking about Americans =P
    Because American policy has a influence not only in Canada, but on a global scale as well....and politics are interesting :D
  • edited March 2008
    Kevin M.;23933 said:
    Because American policy has a influence not only in Canada, but on a global scale as well.

    I guess... What's in it for us?
  • edited March 2008
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=gdlu_YLL5GU

    :omg: :omg: :omg: :omg: :omg: @ 1:23
  • edited March 2008
    ohhh myyy
  • edited March 2008
    vonnie;23935 said:
    I guess... What's in it for us?
    Hillary's a damn neocon. Her husband pushed the NAFTA and thousands of jobs ended up getting canned as a result. Now Hillary is denying support, even though the evidence is there. There's probably nothing in it for us.

    Also, I don't understand the appeal of Hilary. She's a liar, manipulative and is resorting to lowly tactics to smear Obama. Think about it first; most of her campaign donations came from military industrial complex and large pharmaceutical companies. She also served as a Board of Director for Wal-Mart. Additionally, she's pushing for mandatory national health insurances, not health care. There is a huge difference. Good for the rich, bad for the poor.

    20 years of the Bush and Clintons in the White House is enough. They both have the same agenda.
  • edited March 2008
    Policies aside, Obama appears to be a calm, confident, and inspiring. Clinton, on the other hand, appears to be crazy, emotional, and cold. It's no wonder people flock to Obama

    Frankly, I don't really care too much about the US elections. It's always a choice between bad and worse.
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    Policies aside, Obama appears to be a calm, confident, and inspiring. Clinton, on the other hand, appears to be crazy, emotional, and cold.
    Very much, indeed so.
  • edited March 2008
    politics..to me atleast.. always comes down to picking the lesser of the two evils.. because for those who can climb as high as the political ladder is concerned.. you bound to be dealing with manipulative people anyway... so to say hilary is a liar and manipulative is fair game.. but obama is just doing the same thing.. we'll just see how many of obama's cheques get cashed out.. =)

    rooting for hilary..
  • edited March 2008
    Like others have stated, all politicians lie, and we just need to pick the one who lies less.

    I'm leaning more towards hilary, but I have a feeling obama will win.
  • edited March 2008
    Hilary Clinton will win the Democratic Nominantion and will win the 2008 Presidential Election. I am willing to stake $1,000,000 on it because what better than a First Gentlemen than a former U.S. President.

    Geopolitics aside, it's been a long time coming that the U.S. follow what Germany, Britain, Canada have done which is place a female in a leadership position of a nation.
  • edited March 2008
    obama has the support of most of the univeristy voters, this is an well established fact and demonstrated as well yesterday in the primaries
  • edited March 2008
    and i think it is still too early to call either one as the democratic candidate though obama does have the lead despite clinton winning texas/ohio yesterday

    when it is all said and done, obama will prob have the popular vote, more delagates, and less super delagates

    just a guess

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