Running for president, is becoming a celebrity over night. The talk shows, the magazines, the radio shows, and but of course the paparazzi. Part of being in the spotlight, is the feedback and there has been a whole lot of bad talk about Hillary. Recently it was reported that she never lived in New York and did not do so until after deciding to run for senator. After moving to Chappaqua, New York, Hillary has promised jobs and economic growth to upstate N.Y. and poorer urban areas “citing unity and a collective good”. However Chappaqua is ranked 43rd among the 100 highest-income places in the U.S. This new information about her recently moving to New York, and promising an area stability when its ranked one of the most well “established” places in the country isn’t making her look good. This makes her look real bad because she is using her residency in New York in favor of New York votes, but we see her just moving in. But moving in an area that’s ranked among the best in the country, not exactly common grounds. Things get better. Some of her comments like writer Mary Maynihan states are “egregious”. On Martin Luther King Jr. Day (Jan. 16, 2006) at Canaan Baptist Church of Christ, Sen. Clinton “likened the GOP-controlled House to a southern plantation, saying ‘When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation, and you know what I’m talking about. It has been run in a way so that nobody with a contrary point of view has had a chance to present legislation, to make an argument, to be heard.’” In other words she said that the House of Reps has been manipulating everything like a slave master. Wouldn’t you want someone as her to be your president?
After not taking this insult back, her support has fallen to 34 percent. Who would have figured? Her chief rival for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, Obama, his support, however has climbed to 23% from 15%. Obama’s candidacy has hurt Clinton’s campaign among her black voters, who were among her husband’s most loyal Democratic supports during his two terms in office. She has led among black voters in January by 60% to 70%, but now Obama leads among blacks by 44% to 33%. Obama had gone from 18% support to 25%. Hillary from 35% to 28%. Go Hillary!!One thing is certain many think that it is weird how the Clintons and the Bushes seem to trade the office every eight years. Clinton’s rep. remains deeply rooted in her polarizing eight years as first lady. Some think she might still be too liberal for many voters and many still recall her husband’s scandal and her own audacious effort to reform the nation’s health care system. No one knows how her status as the first serious female candidate would play out. Everyone knows Hillary Clinton can raise the money and that she has a good team, but it’s all mitigated by all the mumbling that she’s not electable, said Joe Trippi, who managed Howard Dean’s upstart 2004 presidential campaign.
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