Quote Originally Posted by issuewatcher
Recent polls have reported that Senator Obama is ahead of Senator Clinton by 10 percentage points. This news floored me, as I have been glued to the T.V. for months now, watching ALL of the debates, and last night was no different. It's clear to me that change CAN and will MOST come about by having an EXPERIENCED candidate represent the democratic party. I'm baffled to find out that so many people seem to be swept up in the rhetoric and eloquent speech of a respectable, yet inexperienced man who mostly just talks in generalities.
I've heard Clinton say this same thing in her campaign, but I don't really see how she is any more experienced than Obama. She was elected to the Senate in 2000, and he was elected to the Senate in 2004, so she had been in the Senate longer. But prior to that she never held elected office, while Obama was elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996 and served until 2005. By my count, he has been in elected office 4 more years than she has, and he has won more elections than she has. And I would not say her husband's political experience really counts as her own.

Issuewatcher, how do you figure that she has more experience?