Comment: Anna Quindlen makes an excellent point. "One of the reasons so many young people easily embraced Obama and easily wrote off Clinton is because of the diverse society they take for granted. His race was no bar and her gender was no gift." Amen. God Bless the young people who are ready to create a society beyond race and gender. And God Bless Barack Obama who will lead us there.
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The big winners so far have been the voters, who can now see their states counted, not counted out. The big losers have been the members of the Fourth Estate. Too many of us forgot something central to our work: it's called news because we don't know how it's going to turn out. By suppertime on the evening of the New Hampshire primary some talking heads had written Senator Clinton's political obituary; by bedtime they were frantically backpedaling. Crow sandwich, side of chagrin: because of the polls I wrote a draft column presupposing a Clinton defeat. It will remain on my hard drive as a cautionary tale, right next to the draft column presupposing John Kerry's presidential victory. So far voters have chosen, as Gandhi said, to be the change they want to see. The candidates and those who cover them might want to take a lesson from the people they work for.
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