How 3 voters made up their minds
Millie Seifert finally made a choice. She voted for the ghost.
In the last week, The Associated Press talked to some respondents to a continuing series of AP-Yahoo News polls to see how they planned to vote in the primaries Tuesday in Indiana and North Carolina.
Several were undecided until practically the last minute. One was particularly troubled by how tough it was to come to a decision.
Here's what they did:
Millie Seifert, 69, of East Bend, N.C. A retired pharmacy technician who supplements her Social Security income by working as a nanny.
The choices: Seifert liked Republican Mike Huckabee until he dropped out. Then she was drawn to Democrat Barack Obama until his former preacher made waves. She was ambivalent about Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton, disliking her personally but admiring her grit. She was going back and forth — and back and forth — between Clinton in the Democratic race and John McCain in the noncompetitive GOP primary. "Every time I leave the house I change my mind," she said earlier. "I'm just so confused."
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Posted By: Pia1981 @ 05/07/2008 8:21:17 AM
Comment: Let's be fair. No one is innocent. You also need to look at the level of venom the Hillary supporters have thrown at Obama and his supporters.
Posted By: Etta Mae @ 05/07/2008 12:08:00 AM
Comment: Thank you for this. I agree. It is a very poor reflection on Obama how his supporters have comported themselves in these blogs. Shocking the level of venom and personal attacks even on Chelsea. You want a measure of Hilary Clinton the woman or the wife? Look at Chelsea.
Posted By: rational @ 05/06/2008 10:51:58 PM
Comment: Why don't you the time you spent on this to learn something. Hillary's proposal would be paid for by windfall profits and not effect anything. Why can't you read and learn something instead of parroting the present obamabot propaganda? The level of ignorance (as in uneducated on the facts and the issues) of Obama supporters in these blogs is appalling. Worse, you continue to use them and personal attacks to support a candidate who has no plans and no experience. Great way to convince Clinton supporters to follow your messiah. It's just plain sad, because we who have internet access are not the ones who are going to be mortally wounded financially when Obama takes over. He has no grasp on the economy, doesn't want to help with foreclosures, has made no definitive stand on jobs or how he will concretely create them and has absolutely no foreign policy experience and will sit down with our sworn enemies--including terrorists--without preconditions. He spent 33 days out of the country; 1 overnight in Europe (sum total of European travel - has never visited our other European allies on their soil); spent 15 in Africa, where, when asked his opinion, said he didn't know enough to comment; spent only 2 days in Iraq and never went to Afghanistan or Pakistan as the rest of the CODEL did. Instead of visiting the country he was so concerned about as the reason to speak out on Iraq, he went to the West Bank, Jordan and Qatar. Instead of talking to our only troops and military leaders in Afghanistan - he chose to go and speak to Palestinian businessmen, students and leaders two weeks before HAMAS was voted into power. Our would-be president chose to meet with the owner of Al Jazeera and with Palestinians instead of American troops. And all of you think this is ok. And all of you still think he has good judgment. But his mantra of JUDGMENT! HOPE! CHANGE! HONESTY! have been bought as gospel. Sure, hate Hillary Clinton, but who can tell me, even with the delusion that Chicago politics born, Obama is a *new type* of politician, that Hillary Clinton would not be ready to lead on day one? Look at how they have campaigned since February. Who speaks of issues and solutions? Who complains about tactics and whatever else? Whose he going to complain to when he's president? What type of judgment is he going to show? In order for judgment not be assessed, one has to act on that judgment - he never did. So be happy your messiah has come to rescue the American people. I hope he brings with him some miracles. Thanks for allowing me to speak. Go ahead and tell me what a pig Bill is or what a liar Hillary is if it will make you feel better.