There are clearly some very passionate Hillary supporters out there, and this is definitely one of the funniest videos I’ve ever seen. There are a lot of videos like this dancing around YouTube, most notably for Hillary and Obama. They really demonstrate how excited voters are for these candidates. It is good to see so many people contrast the typical apathy that accompanies many elections of the past, but at the same time these types of videos illustrate how much of a popularity contest this race has become.
It is very reminiscent of a class election in high school. Students vote for whoever they think is the funniest or most popular, and in many ways these high school elections are pretty meaningless. This presidential election clearly isn’t meaningless, but some aspects of it certainly are. These campaigns have been marked by talk show appearances, celebrity endorsements, and silly YouTube videos. As entertaining as all these things are, I think they hurt the process more than help it. Let’s just hope that voters don’t really see this as one big high school class election.
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