Today in Michigan, Hillary Clinton was running virtually unopposed (sorry, Kucinich). Even so, with 100% of the precincts reporting, she was only able to garner 55% of the Democratic vote.
But what’s so much worse for her is that 40% voted for “Uncommitted.” Think about what that means.
Even though it had been widely reported that Hillary was running unopposed, that the other candidates were refusing to run in the state, and that the primary didn’t actually count for anything since Michigan had been stripped of its delegates for violating national party rules, registered Democrats (and some independents) so disliked her that they took the time to vote against her.
236,390 people – nearly a quarter of a million liberal voters in a potential swing state – took an hour out of their busy days to do nothing more than register their official displeasure with the former First Lady in an otherwise meaningless primary. None of them were Republicans – hard to blame this one on the “vast right-wing conspiracy.” They were people from her own party saying they wouldn’t vote for her even if she was the only Democrat running.
I think that’s pretty telling.
I still would prefer to see Barack Obama gain the nomination, because he’s far more serious, and while I think he’s wrong on pretty much everything, I think his presence in the race would make for a serious discussion of principles, philosophies, and policy – not more scandal, bimbo eruptions, and the “politics of personal destruction.”
But the partisan in me can’t help but to go up against a woman who can so inspire that many people in her own party not just to not vote for her, but to actively go out and vote against her.
