Vote for Hillary, and for history [View All]

[William769]

I didn't vote for Hillary Clinton on Tuesday but after receiving this e-mail, I wished I had.

"I just wanted you to know that I voted for a woman yesterday and feel really good about myself today," it said. The writer was a lawyer and, also, a man.

Like many of the 328,121 people in Michigan who voted for Clinton, my e-mailer voted dutifully, despite the Democratic National Committee's decision to strip Michigan of its delegates, despite the decision of Barack Obama and John Edwards to remove their names from the ballot. He ignored the political mess that kept candidates from campaigning and voted.

Only when he walked away from the booth did he realize that he'd somehow budged the needle of history by voting for a woman.

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