Obama to many people might be a new face considering his short term political profile. Some might say that he has very little experience in politics making him not the best nominee for president. Obama plans to gain the support of the seniors by abolishing the income tax of seniors who’s income is less than 50,000. He hopes to gain a little more support with this proposal. Although, despite Hillary’s lead amongst seniors, Obama is slowly gaining the lead of the seniors through his proposal. One commentator says that seniors as prone to be open to political change as young college students do. Obama does in fact have a lead against Hillary in polls with college students. His youth is sometimes a burden to his campaigning because of how people think of how inexperienced he his. Despite that fact, he is doubling his polls within seniors as he inevitably starts to target issues more like social security affecting the older crowd. One Polls puts it, "
In Iowa, an October Hawkeye Poll of likely Democratic caucus-goers found Obama
garnering support from 24% of those over 60, nearly double his August
showing” (Hook).
I believe Obama has the right intentions to help him gain a better stand on issues hoping to hook the seniors. Hillary, although still ahead of him for support of seniors, is winding down because I believe he actually is trying to win and target those big issues. His young political profile may not show true wisdom but I believe his maturity is evident within his campaigning.
Works Cited: LA Times "Obama's campaign has a new wrinkle" by Janet Hook
3 comments:
I believe Obama has a great chance to win the elections. The he presents himself sets him above the rest. However, elections are unpredictable. I'm not a fortune teller!!!
I understand that experience has much to do with the role of presidency. Experience bestows wisdom and maturity. JFK was young, but he just happened to have a family of policticians. Obama maybe young and not as experienced, but in the end it all comes down if any candidate can get the job done. Even if a possible candidate has more experience, if that person cannot get job done, is he fit for the position?
Although Obama's age does indeed hurt him because of a perceived inexperience factor, I think some may also consider it an advantage. It is a common (though perhaps false, I really have no idea) understanding that most people don't approve of the government as it is, so in theory these people would not vote for people who are 'experienced' because they would only have experience at doing things the people don't like. I think it is possible that Obama's age and inexperience can be seen as a positive for his campaign and if his staff did a better job they may find ways to twist that to his advantage.
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