Potomac Primary and More

I don’t know how many of you guys actually voted past Tuesday, but it was really interesting to see so many people at the voting stations. I live right across voting station in my voting district, and I think I saw as many people as I would normally see for the presidential election. There were many people in the line! As far as I remember, I didn’t see that much people back in 2004 primary in the same place, so I guess this primary is really different. There wasn’t much surprise or excitement compared to the Super Tuesday from last week, but I was happy to see that Sen. Obama finally made his breakthrough, which he supposes to made a month ago in NH. Now, for the first time in this campaign, Hilary has to run her campaign as an underdog, and it would be really interesting to see how she would make a great comeback like she did in NH. It would be very interesting to watch Obama campaign too. Since he is considered as a front runner, both Sen. Clinton and Sen. McCain would attack his campaign, and it would be very interesting to see how Sen. Obama reacts on those negative spins. Speaking of negative campaign, I heard very disturbing stories about Hilary campaign in Texas. As many people expected, Sen. Clinton won CA primary by winning over Latino voters, and she might win Texas by the same mechanism. However, what really disturbed me about Hilary campaign’s Latino strategy was that her campaign tried to use the century-old division between African Americans and Latino population in the Southwest, especially in CA and Texas. Hilary campaign already launched rapid negative ads against Sen. Obama specifically targeted to Latino voters in Texas, which is pretty large blocks of voting coalition. I also heard from my Latino friends in Texas along with some online sources saying that Hilary campaign is raising unpleasant racial campaigns there like she did in South Carolina. Hilary’s TA campaign theme goes something like this – if you Latino people put inexperienced Black man on the White House, you all would regret and suffer. Of course, she stays clean on all those unpleasant businesses, but Texans are saying that those kind of ugly words are clearly out there. Hilary desperately needs to win TA and Ohio, but I really hope that she wouldn’t purposely try to divide the country to win her presidency.

Now that Obama campaign made a major breakthrough and Sen. Obama became an unstoppable rock star figure, I was started to worry about if he could really bring us changes that he promised over and over again on the campaign trail. After all those excitements from campaigns are over, he needs to seriously working for American people who gave him enormous support and enthusiastic spirit in his historical campaign. Some people were really disappointed by Clinton’s eight years of presidency because he campaigned like he would be the next JFK, but he turned out to be just an ordinary president who did his job relatively well compared to other average presidents. I guess people are really excited about Obama campaign now because they see next Dr. King or next Kennedy from his campaign. However, if Obama turned out to be very ideological, but not practical president like President Carter back in 70s, it would be another nightmare and disaster for liberals. I was really surprised to hear about Romney drop out last week. Obviously, I think he is an extremely good candidate for conservative (R) s, and I thought he was kind of guy who would fight until his last man, last dollar. But, I guess it’s always smart decision to quit while you still have a choice rather than forced to quit. Some says Gov. Romney looks for 2012 bid, but I’m not sure how it would work for him. Waiting for next chance seems worked very well for Sen. McCain, but it was completely opposite affect for Sen. Edwards. Everybody thought John Edwards had a bright future back in 2004, but he couldn’t even come to second on his own party. I don’t even know Gov. Romney would go for another round, but I hope he could make a great comeback for next round to make 2012 primary more interesting.