I'm an almost 55 year old housewife, living in Minnesota, raised in Chicago. I've been aware of politics since the 1960 Election, and came of political age pretty young, when I worked for the campaign of RFK in the spring of 1968. I was at the Chicago Democratic National Convention that fateful year, outside in Grant Park as a demonstrator.
Since that time, and especially after Watergate, I haven't been active in politics. Cynicism got the better of me.
After 8 years of Bush, my feelings were, as Rachael Maddow puts is, "anybody with a D after their name". At first, I was leaning in favor of John Edwards, but as I got to hear more from Barak Obama, my opinion became weighted more and more in his favor. Until February, though, I would have been content with either Obama or Clinton. Not anymore. Though I will work for whoever the Democratic nominee is - because "anybody with a D after their name" is STILL better than McCain, I don't support HRC.
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