January 7th, 2008
People Get Ready, There’s A Change A Coming! Obama leads in New Hampshire Primary!
There will be no comeback kid part 2. In the state that propelled the remarkable meteoric ride to the Presidency for Bill Clinton, his wife is finding a difficult opponent. Senator Barrack Obama is putting to life a phase from Curtis Mayfield, “People Get Ready There is a Change a Coming!” Pay attention America, we are witnessing history and have a chance to contribute to a better future. Are we getting closer to the dream of Dr. King, to be judged by the content of our character and not the color of our skin?
Just think, just 27 years ago, Ronald Reagan stood up in Philadelphia, Mississippi and announced his candidacy for President of the United States. Reagan from California and born in Illinois chose the site of dreadful murders, where 3 voter registration volunteers were killed. He wanted to send a message to southern whites, that he would keep blacks in our place.
Contrast that to Barack Obama’s vision of one America. He announces his intent to run for President in the shadow of the Abraham Lincoln library in Springfield, Il. The race is not over but Obama is running a strong race in the Clintons have their hand full. Obama rhetoric, visuals and symbolic messages have exhibited a true understanding of what America needs. It is not coming just from pollsters but from connection with the people.
In closing, lesson for business people is the use of pronouns from Hillary, I, Me, my vs. Barack’s, we, us our, this is subtle but give Obama the liability factor. Isn’t this fun!
January 8th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
JD, I am enjoying every minute of this election and you are right this is a historic run taking place!
It should be interesting the election get to the southern states to see how they vote
January 8th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
LDW, 50% of South Carolina democratic voters are black, I wonder if they will vote for Obama? Thanks for stopping
January 8th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
I agree, it will be very interesting to see what happens with the southern states.
I don’t think Dr. King’s dream will be fully embraced in my lifetime, but we are indeed seeing History in the making! This will certainly be one for the history books!
January 8th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
The race is close now and it looks like Hillary may win this one. With 71% of the precints reporting, she is ahead with 39%.
NH has more older voters so this is really not a surprise. If Obama wins the presidency, it will be because of young people.
January 9th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Regina, nice to hear from you.I agree with your comment and yesterday we got a reminder.
January 9th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Vanessa, The Clintons are strong competitors but, my friends that are inside the Obama campaign, felt New Hampsire would be a big win. Hillary’s win was a shock, the polls had Obama winning 37% and he did, they had Hillary at 30 to 32% and she got 39% The difference was the undecided voters and Hillary’s emotion played well in the final days.It is nice to have young support but in the south, the young vote will not make the grade, it will be decided by black voters. Thanks for stopping by.