Prisjämförelser USS-valet: kan demokraterna förnya sig. Generationsväxling även i Pennsylvania?
Det mest hjärtevärmande i årets USA-val är hur entusiastisk ungdomen för första gången på länge är över en presidentkandidat.
Medan John McCain och paret Clinton främst hämtar sina anhängare från 30- och 40-talisterna så har Barack Obama redan fört inte flera miljoner nya unga väljare till det demokratiska partiet.
Och dessa väljare trycker ofta på för att få sina betydligt mer konservativa föräldrar att rösta på Obama.
Men de nya väljarna för inte bara in nya röster till partiet, de för också in nya värderingar som partiet behöver om man skall kunna för nya sig. De unga är t.ex. betydligt mindre rasmedvetna och mycket mer mer teknnoligiskt kunniga än sina föräldrar. De är mer intresserad av utlandet och omvärlden, bättre utbildade, mer intresserad av att resa, mindre dogmatiska.
Dinner Table Debates. In Pennsylvania, many young voters are pushing their parents to back Obama.
..Pennsylvania-senatorn Bob Casey…
explained his endorsement- av Obama - by describing the intense enthusiasm his kids feel for Obama. “Let me tell you a little story about my four daughters, one by one,” he said. “First of all, my daughter Caroline, our second, she saw Senator Obama speak at the 2004 convention. She was not only listening … by the end of his speech, she was standing on her chair. And that’s the same reaction that we’ve all had about his campaign and about his character.
My daughter Elyse was sitting in our home the night of the Iowa caucuses. Senator Obama was speaking, and she was transfixed looking at the television set. And all of a sudden—I was standing there in the kitchen with her—the telephone rang, her cell phone rang. One of her good friends called her, she picked up the phone and she said, ‘I can’t talk to you now, I am listening to Barack Obama,’ and she hung up … My daughter Julia is reading ‘The Audacity of Hope’ right now. And my daughter Marena, who’s our youngest, is 11, she’s been giving me messages for Senator Obama that I’m supposed to impart to him later.”
Det är djupt tragiskt att det just är dessa unga, det demokratiska partiets framtidt, som paret Clinton nu kämpar emot i ett sista desperat försök att klamra sig fast vid makten.
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