caucus

As of 11:00 p.m. on Tuesday night, Barack Obama had won over 66% of the vote in Colorado. this is in no way surprising to me because it in some ways represents the consensus here at DU. Throughout the entire school year I have seen so many groups supporting and representing at first the democrats here on campus and recently it has become support for Barack Obama. There are signs everywhere around campus with pictures of Barack saying “I want you to caucus!” as well as people going around talking about him and why they support him. On the flip side, I have not seen one support group on campus for Hillary Clinton. I find this interesting because I do know that there is a large population of latinos here in Colorado and I thought that this would play a bigger role and give Hillary more support. The reason that I thought this was because I have been hearing a lot lately that Hillary has the latino vote because that is one of the demographics that she has been focusing on in her campaign. To go along with that idea, there has been a lot of talk about the stereotype that latinos do not get along with African Americans. I read this in a couple of places online while researching the debates.
Another reason that Barack’s victory here did not surprise me was because I saw both of the candidate’s campaigns here at DU. At Barack’s campaign there were nearly twenty thousand people there to support him and the lines were extremely long. However, at Clinton’s campaign there were only about three to four thousand people there. Judging by this statistic and making DU the sample for all of Colorado democrats, one would not be surprised by Obama’s victory.