If anyone votes on a candidate based purely on race or gender, please give them a bitchslap. I think policies and ideologies are alot more important.
Frizzle, you're echoing a comment I made earlier. :smile: I honestly don't think any of us here (or the vast majority of Americans) are voting for Barack or Hillary because of their race or gender. Anyone with a brain would recognize that's a pretty dumb reason to vote for somebody. Though obviously not enough Americans vote with their brains, as evidenced by the past 7 years.
Domisoldo is right in that there are few dogmatic differences between Barack and Hillary. They believe in most of the same ends, just have some different ideas on the means to those ends. So for a lot of people it comes down to a literal popularity contest, and for some that means factoring in race or gender. Or not. I support Barack for a lot of reasons, none of which are because he's black or a man.
The excitement they're generating is undeniably based on historic precedent. But it's also based on 7/10 Americans not being able to get rid of the Bush administration fast enough, and hopefully before they create yet another catastrophe.
Just go for the most reliable and probably most efficient candidate then.
McCain.