Hey Sista, Vote For Me!

As promised, I am continuing with my Vote 2008 updates. So far, I have posted info on Giuliani, Barack and Edwards and on a petition to convince Al Gore to run. I have not however covered Hillary yet. Don't know why. I am cautious of Hillary. She is super smart of course, has real life experience in the White House and we would get her husband Bill in the bargain if she wins. But there is something that bothers me about her. Can't quite put my finger on it yet. So I will continue to follow her campaign closely. Below is a look at what votes she is trying to get to stay one step ahead of Obama Barack.


Hillary Strategy: Get Black Female Voters
New plan to court once-dependable demo.
By Geoffrey Gray
http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/29452/
(Photo: Dennis Van Tine/LFI)
Hillary Clinton’s campaign apparatus is now in full swing to court a part of the electorate she thought she had locked down in pre-Obama days: black women. According to one campaign source, Minyon Moore, a Hillary operative and former political director in Bill Clinton’s White House, held a strategy session last week with influential black women, like Marva Smalls (a top exec at Nickelodeon) and NYPD chaplain Suzan Johnson Cook, at Hillary’s Manhattan headquarters. “We’ve always said we need to earn every vote,” Moore says, and hopes the women will act as cheerleaders for Hillary. An ABC–Washington Post poll released last month shows that Hillary’s support among blacks has dropped dramatically (from 60 percent to 33 percent), and her support among women overall has dipped as well (from 49 percent to 40 percent)—owing almost exclusively to the fact that black women are now supporting Obama. “Black women will be key,” says Donna Brazile, a Dem strategist (still unaffiliated) and Al Gore’s former campaign manager. “What drives politics in the black community is the early support of black women. They drive the discourse. They pick a candidate, and stick with it.”