Davis Square Area Presidential Poll

[cemeterygates.livejournal.com]

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Comments

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Considering Hill's showing a lot stronger than in b0st0n I'd say the Square is actually surprisingly conservative.

I dislike Hillary's attitude towards censorship (she support federal legislation on video games), but then all the candidates kind of suck when it comes to free speech issues.

[ifotismeni]

i think age demographics might have something to do with it too -- this could be totally wrong, but i have a feeling there is larger ratio of, er, "young" voters to older ones in b0st0n than in the davis comm.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Obama's precedence bears you out. I have to wonder how HE'S going to play here. Boston is pretty much in the bag for him; most of the people leaning towards him sound like Boston residents. But the rest of the state? Who knows?

What I'm wondering is what'll happen if there are two candidates who are so close in delegates that they might take the nomination if they can talk the superdelegates over to their side. The conventions might actually be worth paying attention to for once!

[cemeterygates.livejournal.com]

Hillary has almost all of the superdelegates in the bag according to the CNN data...

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

That's because of her "inevitability" pitch. But if Obama has a strong showing and gets a lot of delegates behind him, they can quite easily change their minds.

[ifotismeni]

I really hope so. The conventions and delegates have felt increasingly irrelevant as of late, it'd be nice to feel like the whole thing's not decided by NH and SC for once.

the rest of the state is really anybody's guess. where i grew up in MA it's pretty conservative so i see a lot of signs on yards for mccain and paul, a few for romney still. obama has little hold there. even out in the happy valley he might have a tough fight with hillary supporters.

this is why i don't do politics reporting :P i really don't have any expertise here.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

I'm just glad that a woman and a black man are running so we don't have the usual P.C. wank about how "it's another white Protestant man blah blah blah."

[anomie666.livejournal.com]

But then in the unlikely event that the democrats don't win the white house, its going to be RACISM! SEXISM!

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

I thought that was why you guys had the Mormon and the Italian as backup.

[closetalker11.livejournal.com]

I am actually surprised at how little of that there's been so far. I figured more would have cropped up by now.

[anomie666.livejournal.com]

Because tis the season of change in politics and the dems are leading. If they stumble and things turn around before November, I'm sure you will hear those charges.

[closetalker11.livejournal.com]

But I bet those charges won't come from the Obama or Clinton camps themselves; they'll let other media outlets do that talking for them (like CNN constantly assuming that all black people will vote for Obama, or the "Iron my shirt!" guy).

[ron_newman]

"Iron my shirt guy"? Some campaign is trying to corner the wrinkled-shirt demographic?

[closetalker11.livejournal.com]

Apparently, someone at a Clinton rally this weekend held up some laundry yelling, "Iron my shirt!! Iron my shirt!!" The implication was that a woman should be ironing shirts, not running for president.

[anomie666.livejournal.com]

It was a radio stunt as a joke. A stupid radio joke I should add.

[closetalker11.livejournal.com]

Really? Hmm, the more you know. And yeah, that's just ... dumb.

[ron_newman]

Right now it says 12 for Hillary, 21 for Obama, which I don't consider an especially strong showing by Hillary. But let's take another look here at the end of the day.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I saw that. I posted that comment when Obama had only a two-vote lead. :-)