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      is dead on. Democrats support Clinton, but there is very little passion coming from the campaign. There is no call to arms, nothing to motivate the troops. Some already are, Clinton has many partisans just like Obama who don't need any motivation.

      But the sincere difference b/w Obama and Clinton is that Obama has managed to do what NO OTHER politician has been able to do recently and that's mobilize a voting block that has a poor voting history and DOMINATE among them. His campaign has engineered record turnouts of 18-29 year old voters and winning those overwhelmingly. That's not stealing votes from Clinton, that's adding to the field b/c those votes were not in play, b/c they weren't going to occur.

      That's passion. That's inspiration. When a country is suffering the way this one is and has been, motivation, sincerity and passion go a long way towards giving people the belief that it can and will get better.

      Clinton is simply not offering that option. Her campaign is the Democratic version of the statement, "trust me, I'll do better." Hardly a motivating statement.

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