More Election Brilliance

As a lot of you know, I live in Texas and March 4 was our big day.  Of course, that means that there's going to be a lot of stuff about the elections that are from here on the local level.  I was reading one of the local papers here yesterday, and they were interviewing some people after they had voted.  One of the things that they were honing in on was the way that females were voting.  They were talking about how ladies had a difficult choice to make between voting for Hillary, because she's a woman, or voting for Obama, because they agree with him on things.  Here's one of the good quotes, talking about women that like Obama.

"...and some of Obama's biggest fans were unable to vote for him, fearing a vote against Clinton would be a vote against their gender."

Hmm, so that's a good idea.  Let's not vote for who we think will be the better president, and instead vote for someone just because they're the same sex as us.  The reasons that some people have for voting astound me.  If the reason that you are voting for someone is just because they are black, or a girl, or an old rich white guy, then you really don't need to be voting.  Vote based on character, on where they stand on issues, and on how well you think they'd do the job.  People need to vote for someone that they want to be president because they think they would be the best president, not because they want them to be the first black, first woman, or oldest. 

On a somewhat related note, if you actually did want to vote for Hillary, check out what Lawrence Lessig has to say about it, it's very interesting.