I know this isn't for the United States but it's in Argentina. First Lady [first female president in Argentina] Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. This thread is not to start arguments, but to see how may people think Hillary Clinton can make it, just like Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner did.

By: Fiona Ortiz

See article below.


BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - First lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner swept to victory in Argentina's presidential vote on Sunday to become the first woman elected to lead the country, television exit polls showed.

Polls aired by several television channels showed Fernandez, a center-leftist senator, with 42 percent to 46 percent of the vote, well ahead of her nearest rival, former lawmaker Elisa Carrio with 23 percent to 25 percent.

If official results confirm that Fernandez has more than 45 percent of the vote, or 40 percent with a 10 percentage point lead over Carrio, she will win the presidency without facing a runoff election next month.

Cheers and applause erupted at Fernandez's campaign bunker and dozens of supporters banged drums outside when television channels flashed the exit poll numbers.

"She is going to be the same as her husband, who has done a lot of things like build houses for the poor," said 50-year-old chauffeur Ramon Reggie Quiroga.

Fernandez, 54, ran on the record of her husband, leftist President Nestor Kirchner, and she would take over from him in a highly unusual transfer of power between democratically elected spouses.

Many Argentines credit Kirchner with pulling the country out of a dramatic economic crisis in 2001-02 and using growth of 8 percent a year to create jobs, raise salaries and expand pension benefits.

BONANZA

Fernandez has been Kirchner's top advisor during his four-year presidency. Voters tired of boom-and-bust cycles hope she will sustain the bonanza he has overseen, even as high inflation and energy shortages cause concern.

Opposition parties complained that polling stations were low on ballots for their candidates, and a judge extended voting in the capital city for an hour due to long lines. But a top government official called the elections "crystal clean."

Argentina, a major grains exporter and producer of beef on its huge pampas grasslands, is South America's second biggest country and historically one of its wealthiest.

Earlier in the day, Fernandez voted in a school in Rio Gallegos in southern Patagonia, Kirchner's hometown and her adopted homeland.

"I'm part of the generation that grew up and couldn't vote for anything," she said, referring to Argentina's 1976-83 military dictatorship.

Argentina had its only other woman president in the mid-1970s when Isabel Peron took power after the death of her husband, strongman leader Juan Peron, but she was not elected to the job.

A Fernandez victory would make her the second woman elected president in a Latin America country in the last two years, coming after Chile's Michelle Bachelet won office.

It would also continue the trend of leftist leadership in South America. But while Fernandez is expected to stay friendly with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, she, like her husband, is more moderate than the firebrand socialist.

Her campaign seemed effortless. Handpicked by her husband and chosen by a faction of the Peronist party without a primary, Fernandez avoided debates and was vague on policy.

Rivals have criticized the Kirchners as being authoritarian and treating the election as the beginning of a political dynasty to tighten their grip on the presidency and Congress.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071028/...ection_exit_dc

 

a white female or black man would make a good choice for this country to progress

 

Can you say WHITEWATER

 

We just need some one New Male or Female I really don't care as long as thay can do the Job. The people will speak
Z

 

 

If they gave us a good choice i would have no problem voting for anyone, race sex or religion does not matter, as long as they seem like they could take this country in a direction that i as a voter can agree with. Closest out side the norm that i'm looking at is a morman. Plus the fact of the matter is that middle America will not allow anyone but i white male into the white house. As long as the religious right can agree on a candidate we will see another republican president. I believe that the the only person on the republican side that the right could and would never vote for is Ron Paul.

 

Although I am not convinced I would vote for her, I think that it would at least add a new flavor to the age old political scene. If I had my rathers I would like to see and would vote for him in a New York minute, Colon Powell, run for the office. But alas he has other plans. I just hope whoever we elect makes postitive changes for our country..

Julian

 

we need someone who would do what is best for this country at this time & take care of our own first.someone without deep pockets.don't care what sex or color they are,they will get my vote

 

I don't have a problem at all with a female or a black president. It's the person and their politics that matter to me, and nothing else. That said, I do not support Hillary for president because she does not represent my political opinions, and I'll leave it at that. Actually I believe Condoleezza Rice would make a wonderful candidate, and she is both a woman and black.

 

I'd vote for Rice in a heartbeat but never for Hillary because of the same reasons mizzou gave. Nothing to do with being a woman...just would never cast a vote for her


Powell yes....Obama never






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