no, not really, but it made you look. BUT, did it make you stop to think? Whilst surfing Facebook for political groups, I was amazed by how many pages/groups there are dedicated to this view, "if Hillary wins, I'm moving to _______", "Stop Hillary Clinton", "Anti-Hillary Clinton '08", "Life's a Bitch, why vote for one?", "I'd vote for a trained monkey over Hillary in '08", "Anyone But Hillary", ad nauseum. Really. With "membership" in the thousands.
A similar search for Barak Obama turned up a handful of "anti" groups. On the other hand, the "pro" Obama groups were plentiful, but "membership" was not necessarily strong.
Not that Facebook is the ultimate political trend watch. But I have to wonder how is it that misogyny is still so acceptable? Generally, the folks using Facebook are college students, you know, the up & coming voters, the "future" of our country. Damn, the people who will be making the rules when I'm old & infirm. What are they? Reagan babies? or what is it Snick said "we're not generation y, we're generation ______". It's kind of frightening to think some peoples' political decisions are made with their dicks. Then again, that's not so surprising. What decision isn't made like that? Look at our own current president for a fine example. Apparantly all the ballyhoo over requiring college kids to take THREE WHOLE SEMESTER HOURS of "cultural & gender diversity" (at CU, anyway), is just a lot of fluff with not much content; it "looks" like kids are being educated in such a way as to expand their narrow scope on the world. But meh, not so much.
So tell me, what is the hard & fast reasoning why Hillary Clinton would not do as well or better than any of the other hopefuls? Or George W, for that matter.
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It's the millennial generation. Gen Y implies that we are the next Gen X, which we are not...
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