As the U.S. elections progress and primaries draw to a close, the fight for the democratic candidacy grows more fierce. Candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are both 'firsts'- first black man and first woman. We have been warned many times not to use that to decide who to support. However, if we do not look at their ethnicity and gender, what do we look at? Some suggest experience, personality, and day-to-day behavior.
Every few weeks, something big occurs which draws media attention to a single candidate. It can be what they said, what they are doing, who they associate themselves with, and even what their spouses say. Incidents like 'the Bosnian Lie' and Reverend Wright are supposedly bad publicity for the candidates. One could derive that these candidates would steadily lose popularity and eventually quit the race with a never-ending string of bad P.R. That's not what the polls show though.
According to BCC, which keeps track of the popularity polls throughout the......
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