I have family members who voted for Hillary "because of Iraq." Not because they supported Iraq, but because they had no idea that Hillary voted for it. (This was after attending a Hillary stump speech. I'm not kidding. They managed to watch an entire stump speech without learning that she had voted for the war.)
When I informed them that she had in fact done voted for the war they so detested, and showed them Barack's vehement opposition to it, they didn't change their minds. They argued a while: but, well, so did everyone else. I said "no, in fact, half the democratic senators didn't," They looked embarrassed; but save for my dad, who doesn't care much, they didn't change their minds.
I had known full well that Hillary voted for the war, and I honestly laughed the first time I heard "35 years of experience," yet initially supported her anyway because I had fond memories of Bill and I didn't know two things about Obama, and bought into the claim that he was an inexperienced newbie with rockstar status thanks solely to Oprah. I believed he had gotten lucky opposing the war. Quite frankly, I thought Hillary was inevitable.
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