I really just feel that way on the issue, which in turn triggers my feelings towards her on the issue. If the shoe was on the other foot, I'd feel likewise.

It may seem to be a 'chicken or the egg' situation, but for me the negative feelings towards her are being created by facts I learn about her, not the other way around.

When I approve or disapprove a candidate's positions, records, circumstances, etc, on any particular aspect, it's because of what I learn about them. They create the facts for which I judge them. Most of the time, it isn't something personal, just a policy wisdom or competency issue judgement I must make.

But on this particular issue, I simply find it personally objectionable in what happened on moral as well as policy grounds. I didn't create the issue. She did. I also don't find it trivial but serious, especially aggravated in revulsion given how much money she was getting from lobbyists sources. It appears just utterly callous to spend loads of earmark money on things like rinks for her town and yet charge raped women for collecting the rape evidence from them, all to save thousands on taxpayer money on that evidence, when yet she'll spend millions more on pork barrel projects and even wasteful ones, such as her prior support for the Bridge to Nowhere, etc.

As for Obama, I judge him likewise. I didn't even vote for him in the primary. Similarly, I had to judge his totality of the circumstances against HRC and I felt the totality of circumstances and factors weighed in her favour when I balanced them all out. I had no say in the GOP primary. Obama and McCain won their nominations, however, and now I must do the same between the McCain/Palin ticket and the Obama/Biden ticket. But it's the candidates who create their own facts for me to judge positively or negatively.

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