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Orangepeel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-08-08 10:06 AM
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25. Very little
Health care mandates and how much of DOMA should be repealed are two differences that come to mind, although, of course, neither of those things are under the control of the president.

In terms of voting record, Clinton voted for the IWR and Kyle-Lieberman and Obama spoke against the first and spoke out against but missed the vote on the second. Obama voted against the bankruptcy bill and Clinton voted for the one that failed and spoke out against but missed the vote on the one that passed. Obama voted for a mandate forcing automakers to achieve 40 mile-per-gallon average fuel economy by the year 2017 and Clinton against it.

IMO, one of the reasons that supporters of each candidate get so emotional and engage in personal attacks (and, of course, both sides do this), is because there is so little in terms of either rhetoric or record that differentiates the two. The differences are mainly campaign tactics and personality. So that's what gets criticized.




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