Pantsuit Up! Caucusing for Hillary in Kansas

[MrWendel]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-ann-goudie/caucusing-for-hillary-in-kansas_b_9426854.html

By Jeffrey Ann Goudie



Last weekend hundreds of us lined up to enter the gym in central Topeka, Kansas, where my now 33-year-old daughter attended middle school. My long line of already registered voters was not nearly as long as the parallel line of young people registering to vote, and erstwhile Republicans switching to the Democratic Party to caucus for Bernie Sanders.

The young man ahead of me sported a beard and a slouchy hat. I asked him if he was caucusing for Bernie. "Was it the hat or the beard or my age that gave it away?" he laughed.

I told him I was there to caucus for Hillary, but if Bernie were the nominee, I would support him, of course. He made me no such promise for Hillary.

In the Landon Middle School gym Hillary supporters crowded the bleachers on one side. Bernie supporters filled the opposite-side bleachers and spilled onto the gymnasium floor. The Bernie supporters yelled, "Feel the Bern!" We Hillary supporters chanted "Madame President," and, as we clapped, shouted, "It's About Time!"

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[Thinkingabout]

1. Yes, the republicans are working hard to get some one other than Hillary on

The ballot. Tells me they don't want to run against a very strong well qualified candidate and beside that who have they got to measure up to Hillary.

[yallerdawg]

2. Remember McGovern in '72! (US History in school, Milllenials!)

I'm supporting the candidate with less fiery rhetoric, who can implement incremental change, the only way social change occurs, invocations to "revolution" notwithstanding. The potent symbolism of having the first female president seems lost on most Millennials, while it is not on Boomers, who have lived to see a black man in the presidency, but would like to see a woman in the highest office. "It's about time!" as we chanted.

Although they may not see it now, a woman in the White House would be truly revolutionary.

[BlueMTexpat]

3. Nice report, MrW!

Thanks for posting.

i liked this part especially.

I do not consider the Vermont Senator more electable than the former Secretary of State. This time I am supporting the candidate I believe will get the most done once in office. I'm supporting the candidate with less fiery rhetoric, who can implement incremental change, the only way social change occurs, invocations to "revolution" notwithstanding. The potent symbolism of having the first female president seems lost on most Millennials, while it is not on Boomers, who have lived to see a black man in the presidency, but would like to see a woman in the highest office. "It's about time!" as we chanted.

If I had doubts about whether to support Hillary or Bernie, they vanished the night I watched a CNN Town Hall when a University of South Carolina law student leaning toward Bernie but whose mother supports Hillary, asked the former First Lady what she thinks causes the generational gap between her supporters and those of Sen. Sanders.

Hillary said frankly she didn't know the cause, but said, "Whether you end up supporting me or not, I will support you."

I've not heard similar statements from Bernie. From some of his supporters, I have in fact heard exactly the opposite.

[UtahLib]

4. Interesting insight.