Obama definately he has a wide appeal not only because I have strong liberal-democrat leanings and I agree with a lot of his ideas and policies, but I want some new blood in the White House after we've already had 2 Bushes and if we have Hillary 2 Clintons. I loved Clinton and Bush senior even though I was a younging when he was in office was ok, but Bush Jr and Hillary just no. I do like some of Ron Paul's ideas even though he's a Republican too. Namely his policy of isolationism in terms of our foreign policy, seeing how we've pissed off 3/4ths of the nations of the world. I wish someone would start cracking down on these lobbyists in Washington as well, they are a huge part of the problem already, added to all the other corruption...eek.
I think it also helps meeting the candidate though and talking to them. I was lucky enough to meet Senator Obama who is my state senator before he was even planning to run back in October of 2006.
