On The Scene At A Hillary Rally

I attended a boisterous rally of Hillary supporters in White Plains today. Hundreds of folks particularly union members who were nurses, teachers and, my favorite, the IUPAT. When the head of the painters union stood to speak he was flanked by about twenty or thirty of this
members, all men in black and gold jackets with like colored signs for Hillary. They looked a little like the Lollipop Guild from the Wizard of Oz all grown up and rooting for Senator Clinton. All the regular dignitaries were there, state senators, county executives, and Congress people including Eliot Engel, John Hall (very tall and bald for an-rocker!) and a real favorite of the crowd, Nita Lowey. The big draws were Kerry Kennedy and Madeleine Albright. But the drama of the afternoon was during Kennedy's talk about her personal experiences with Hillary, there was a great rustle in the midst of the dignitaries then a request for someone to call 911. It turned out that Nita had
fainted! Turned out it had been a long day for the indefatigable Lowey, who was too long on her feet with too little to eat, and then she went down. But, in her trademark cheerful style, strapped to the gurney on the way out she said, "I was overcome by my enthusiasm for Hillary!"

Comments

[Buddhabman]

03:26 AM on 02/03/2008

Now go to an Obama rally and see the difference in size and energy. Now that is the election.

Obama 08

[radiclib]

08:49 PM on 02/02/2008

An interesting scene you described. I attended a Hillary Clinton rally recently and noticed the crowd seemed devoted but reserved. Her audience skews older: lots of middle-aged women, some alone, others in pairs. Perhaps they were ones who remembered the days of ``women's liberation'' in the 1970s. The Hillary-Obama ticket would be powerful. Let's hope they can both agree on it and run as a pair. We need to take the White House and start repairing the wounds of the last two terms.
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[MPeter]

08:17 PM on 02/02/2008

A new poll shows that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is considered the candidate most likely to "do anything — including something unethical — to win," and most likely to embarrass the United States.
According to a national Fox News Poll, 44 percent put Clinton in that category, compared to 11 percent for Mitt Romney, 9 percent for Sen. John McCain and 8 percent for Sen. Barack Obama. Twenty-eight percent of voters were unsure.
These results suggest that Clinton still faces the challenge of shedding the image of a politician who puts electoral victory ahead of everything else. Ironically, this negative perception is partly due to her broader image as a competent, take-charge leader who can get things done on ‘day one.’ Her ultimate success may depend on how skillfully she can 'un-couple' these two aspects of her image," says Ernest Paicopolos, a principal of Opinion Dynamics, which conducted the poll for Fox News.
The poll also shows: More than a third (37 percent) say Clinton is most likely to do something embarrassing; Romney comes in a distant second with 14 percent, McCain at 12 percent and Obama at 11 percent. Twenty-six percent are unsure.
McCain now leads among Republicans with 48 percent, far outdistancing Romney at 20 percent and Mike Huckabee at 19 percent. Ron Paul receives 5 percent. The number of undecided voters has dropped from 13 percent in December to 5 percent today.
Clinton is still the top choice among Democrats, with the support of 47 percent of voters, compared to 37 percent for Obama.