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Democrats Divided, Even at Dinner Table
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She said she knew that her husband was a strong supporter of New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, now out of the race, and that he liked Edwards. But to find out that Clinton would get his vote surprised her.
"I really did think at the last minute he'd see the light," she said, laughing. "I kind of assume he always agrees with me, but I'm finding out that's not a good assumption."
Paul Robinson sent the e-mail from Detroit in reply to a query from his wife. "I'm an Obama girl," she wrote. "Are you an [Obama] boy?"
That he wasn't, he said, came down to who could best play the political game.
"Hope is great," he said. "But I'd rather have someone who has been around the block."
He remembered casting his first vote ever for Bill Clinton, impressed that he "wasn't afraid of going to black neighborhoods and embracing people who didn't look like him." The couple keeps an autographed picture of the former president in the home office.
Whichever Democrat wins the nomination, Jennifer Robinson said, she revels in the possibility that a woman or an African American could win the presidency. "Susan B. Anthony and Martin Luther King are probably up there dancing a jig together," she said.
The couple's daughter Sydney, 6, the oldest of their three children, said she had heard of Clinton and Obama. When asked which she liked better, she played it smart.
"I don't know," she said, hopping downstairs to watch the Wiggles. "I can't decide."
