Kayla Gilmore voted for Obama. On Tuesday, January 19th, she decided not to vote in the election to fill the Massachusetts Senate seat previously held by Ted Kennedy.
“I think it’s so ridiculous when people make commercials… back talking each other,” she explains, after describing the first commercial she heard by Martha Coakley’s campaign. It wasn’t telling her why Coakley was a good candidate, she said, but rather why Brown wasn’t a good candidate. She says she got fed up. “In my opinion,” she said, “I didn’t really like either of them.”
Although she is a registered Democrat and resides in Amherst, MA a town that voted overwhelmingly for Coakley (84%), she admits Brown seemed like he cared more about the people. I wonder out loud if this had anything to do with the infamous “truck ads" he was known for by the end of his campaign. She says she's familiar with the ad, adding “He looked like he was more caring. I think I saw him with a dog once.”
As a young 20 year old voter who’s “just not that into politics,” Gilmore had one parting request: “I just wish that people would tell the truth.”
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