With Two Days ‘Til the Maryland Primary, Bill Clinton Reaches for the Senior Citizen Vote
Posted on February 10th, 2008 at 5:13 pm by JarenToday when I was at my part time job, a fellow co-worker pointed out to me in the Washington Post that it indicated President Bill Clinton was doing a speech in a nearby retirement community in Silver Spring, Maryland called Leisure World. The information, presented in a fashion that suggested it was open to the public, seemed like good enough reason to try to make it out to see one of our former Presidents do a speech.
However upon calling Leisure World, it turns out the speech is only for residents or resident invite only. The explanation was that it was a “big mix up.” This is a very interesting development. It looks like not only race has been a factor in this campaign but also age. The young voters have flocked to Senator Barack Obama in a rock star type fashion. Obama is doing a speech at the University of Maryland tomorrow afternoon and it is expected to be so widely attended that it is in the Comcast Center, where the Terrapin basketball team plays its games.
It seems that Clinton has almost surrendered the youth vote. In defense, Chelsea Clinton did do a Q&A session at the student union at Maryland that I was not able to attend. However, according to a Washington Post blog report, only about 100 people attended. With Democrats turning out in record numbers for primaries and caucuses, I imagine the youth are playing a big role especially in Obama’s three big wins yesterday. Obama is inspiring the new generation’s voters…and with both Bill and Hillary not even attempting to court voters at Maryland’s biggest university, it strengthens the argument that the Clinton name represents the Democratic party of the past and the Obama name represents the Democratic party of the future.
