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Choice for President....Democratic
Wishes:
atz, It was exciting for me too to register and to vote! Today I was at Ross, wearing my "I voted" sticker. The young girl at the register asked me who I voted for. I asked her if she was 18 and registered. She said she was 18 but not registered. I told her she had better get her butt registered! She didn't seem that interested. I don't get it.
David, you and I must be about the same age. I believe it was Carter who ran against Reagan in 1980 and of coarse lost.
I went to bed last night thinking I would vote for Clinton and changed my mind this morning and in the end voted for Obama.
Brown Eyes:
Heya,
I was just watching Hillary's speech mid-evening tonight and I got all choked up at something she said just now during her "thank you's" section of her talk. This is a paraphrase, but it was something like this:
"I especially would like to thank my mother who was born before women could vote and is watching her daughter on this stage tonight."
To me, that's just such an extraordinary statement. :)
brokeplex:
In what year and state was Sen Clinton's mother born?
Women were voting in the US as far back as the end of the Civil War in some states.
Shakesthecoffecan:
Well yes in local elections they were in some places. I think Wyoming let them vote statewide in 1879 and I have seen some sources tell of women voting in colonial times because they inherited land. In 1920 they were able to finally vote in all elections.
Shakesthecoffecan:
Here we go, Dorothy Emma Howell, Sen. Clinton's mother, was born 3 December 1916 in Chicago, Illinois.
http://www.gedview.com/rodham/pedigree.php
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