The times they are a changing. This year the politics of fear go head to head with the audacity of hope. Democrats have come out in record numbers to vote in the presidential primaries and caucuses to date. The current Democratic front runner, Barack Obama, has inspired a new generation of young and independent voters. Both he and Hillary Clinton are promoting plans which would help create a more fair and equitable United States.
But the race between Obama and Hillary Clinton is very close. No matter what happens in Pennsylvania or any of the other remaining states, neither candidate will have clinched the nomination when all the voting is finished in June. The next presidential candidate will be determined by the remaining Democratic superdelegates.
No matter who is chosen, it will be a proud and groundbreaking moment for the United States. If a Democrat is elected, the next US president will be either a woman or a black man.
If you were a superdelegate, how would you vote? The Yahoo! Media Innovation Group has built an app called Be a Superdelegate, which runs on both Facebook and MySpace. It lets you cast your own superdelegate vote and show support for your presidential pick by putting a virtual campaign button on your Facebook or MySpace profile page. What’s especially fun about the Superdelegate app is that a vote you cast on MySpace will appear on Facebook and vice versa. Like the Texas prima-caucus, you can even vote twice – once on each network.
Earlier this month, MySpace went live with their application platform, which supports OpenSocial. Now we’re starting to see the emergence of cross platform social apps – a pretty cool development. Could it be that leading Internet companies large and small can work together and share content and data to make the Web a better place for everyone? Yes we can. Yes we can.
Be a Superdelegate today!
Hillary Obama battle by mr_magoo
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Comment by Dave Lucas — March 21st, 2008 at 5:01 pm
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Hillary & Obama must come together if McCain is to be overcome!
Comment by Denise — March 21st, 2008 at 9:22 pm
The Clintons need to put their egos aside and start supporting their own party over McCain.
Comment by Albert Johnson Jr — March 22nd, 2008 at 6:57 pm
My issue with Hillary Clinton is that I feel she is only motivated by her own ambition. She may earnestly believe that her ambition and the interests of the Democratic Party and that of the American people are one and the same, but they are not.
Barack has given us a framework to discuss not just the thorny issue of race or gender, but several others that afflict every American. Issues like our disastrous adventure in Iraq, the continuing and impending disaster looming in the sub prime mortgage debacle, education, corporate greed, and so on. Rather than join in and constructively add to or even expand the thoughtful and mature discussion on some of the issues that divide us, and how we might go forward and tackle the issues we both share, she sends her husband out as attack dog to play to tired reactionaries with his Jesse Jackson statement, and question this great American Barack Obama’s patriotism with his more recent ones.
This is the politics of divisiveness that thankfully I believe we are turning the page on. We once had a great Democrat that when campaigning said something along the lines of this - If you are given the choice of candidates and one is preaching hope and the other is talking fear, you better choose the one with the hope. That candidate was Bill Clinton but Hillary is not Bill.
Comment by Annette — March 22nd, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Everyone thinks it’s bad now. Just vote for Clinton or Obama and things are really going to get bad. McCain is not my choice either. But, I’m chosing the lesser of two evils. I was very young. But, I haven’t forgot about the Jimmy Carter days. My parents trying to run their business and having PERFECT credit and paying 27% interest at the bank. And, lines backed up for miles, because we had no gas! Just remember Democrat house and Senate and also Democrate President. There’s no one to control them!
Comment by TheFernieBus — March 23rd, 2008 at 6:24 pm
NO. Absolutely not. I will not vote for either Clinton or Obama. They are both buffoons.
Comment by Jennifer — April 8th, 2008 at 8:13 am
Clinton! It is time for change, so put a woman in instead of a man.