Reason #1:
In Arkansas she was instrumental in straightening out their school system - taking it from one of the worst systems to a role model used by other troubled schools on how to improve public education.

Reason #2:
In 2006, she led the fight to kill the anti-gay Republican constitutional amendment that for the first time would have added laws to the Constitution that would INCREASE discrimination.

Reason #3: 
After being pummeled by the public for trying to pass Universal Health care while she was First Lady, she dusted herself off and in 1997, led a federal effort that provided insurance support for children whose parents were unable to provide them with health coverage.

Reason #4:
She was able to secure a raise in research funding for prostate cancer and childhood asthma at the National Institutes of Health.

Reason #5: 
She initiated the Adoption and Safe Families Act.

Reason #6: 
She's authored a great deal of legislation during her years on the Armed Services Committee that has passed regarding increased and improved benefits for our returning Iraq veterans.

Reason #7: 
She was one of the key Senators who fought to give our military badly needed raises and increase in benefits. For being such flag wavers, it was the Republicans and Bush who resisted these attempts to show our military how much we value and appreciate them.

Reason #8:
Since 1974 she has been fighting for a woman's right to choose.

Reason #9:
She is fighting to lift the ban on stem cell research to cure devastating diseases.

Reason #10:
Voted YES on $100M to reduce teen pregnancy by education & contraceptives. (Mar 2005)

Reason #11:
Rated 100% by NARAL, indicating a pro-choice voting record. (Dec 2003)

Reason #12:
Vows to protect next generation by paying off national debt.

Reason #13: 
Fought in Congress to "Help people facing foreclosure; don't just bail-out banks." (Aug 2007)

Reason #14:
In 1962 she met MLK Jr. preaching a sermon in Chicago and learned from him the importance of equal rights for all.

Reason #15:
In 1965 she brought black classmates to her until-then all-white church.

Reason #16: 
Since 1995 has criticized China's human rights abuses.

Reason #17:
In 1972 worked as a lawyer suing white-only schools, working with Marian Wright Edelman on enforcing school desegregation in the South.

Reason #18: 
In October, 2000 she said it's not enough for America just to apologize for slavery and move on; we need to concentrate on civil rights now.

Reason #19: 
Has been pushing for a "Privacy Bill of Rights" for all Americans since 2000.

Reason #20:
Will end don't ask, don't tell in the military, "Gay soldiers need to shoot straight, not be straight." November 2003.

Reason #21:
Supports civil unions, with full equality of federal benefits.

Reason #22: 
Voted YES on adding violent crimes based on victim's sexual orientation to definition of hate crimes.

Reason #23:
Rated 96% by the NAACP, indicating a pro-affirmative-action stance.

Reason #24: 
Freedom of Speech: Voted NO on recommending Constitutional ban on flag desecration.

Reason #25:  [A.K.A "Whoopi Goldberg's reason to support Hillary"]
Voted YES on repealing tax subsidy for companies which move US jobs offshore. (Mar 2005)

Reason #26:
Voted more funding and stricter sentencing for prosecution of hate crimes. (Apr 2001)

Reason #27: 
Voted to Require DNA testing for all federal executions. (Mar 2001)

Reason #28: 
Although she was in college during the height of the drug culture in the late 1960s, she was devoted to work on civil rights instead of partying and taking drugs.

Reason #29:
She is fighting for Universal pre-kindergarten.

Reason #30: 
Since 1998 has fought publicly to keep art and music programs in public schools. "Arts education is needed in our schools."

Reason #31:
Wants a complete re-write, a Total change in No Child Left Behind. (August, 2007)

Reason #32:
Rated 82% by the NEA, indicating pro-public education votes.

Reason #33:
Voted YES on spending $448B on education & debt reduction instead of Bush's tax cut for the rich. (Apr 2001)

Reason #34: 
Wants to "Remove energy dependence on countries who would harm us." (Jun 2006)

Reason #35:
Wants to build a "$50B strategic energy research fund from taxing oil companies." (Oct 2006)

Reason #36:
Wants to Invest in alternative energy; jobs that won't be outsourced.

Reason #37:
Called on U.S. to Ratify Kyoto; and fund more mass transit. (Sep 2000)

Reason #38:
Rated 100% by the CAF, indicating support for energy independence. (Dec 2006)

Reason #39:
Voted NO on drilling for oil in the Alaska National Wildlife Reserve on national security grounds. (Apr 2002)

Reason #40:
Voted YES on targeting 100,000 hydrogen-powered vehicles by 2010. (Jun 2003)

Reason #41:
Voted NO on Bush Administration Energy Policy. (Jul 2003)

Reason #42:
Voted YES on banning drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (Mar 2005)

Reason #43: (listen up Louisiana!)
Voted YES on $3.1B for emergency oil assistance for hurricane-hit areas. (Oct 2005)

Reason #44: 
Voted YES on factoring global warming into federal project planning. (May 2007)

Reason #45:
Voted YES on making oil-producing and exporting cartels illegal. (Jun 2007)

Reason #46:
Rated 89% by the LCV, indicating pro-environment votes.

Reason #47:
Voted NO on confirming Gale Norton as Secretary of Interior. (Jan 2001)

Reason #48:
Called on Bush to "Put someone in charge of Katrina recovery who actually cares." (Aug 2007)

Reason #49:
Her Support for green-collar job training

Reason #50:
Introduced bill to Better track kids' products for exposures to toxic materials coming from China.

Reason #51:
Calls for the government to treat kids as "child citizens" not "minors" under the law. (Since Dec 1999)

Reason #52:
Rated 0% by the Christian Coalition

Reason #53:
Voted YES on enlarging NATO to include poor Eastern Europe nations. (May 2002

Reason #54:
"Smartest strategic choice is peace." (Nov 1999)

Reason #55:
Calling for a NATO-enforced no-fly zone to end Darfur genocide. (June, 2007

Reason #56: 
IN the 1970s worked to pass Constitutional Amendment to allow young people aged 18, 19, 20 to vote.

Reason #57: 
Voted NO on allowing lobbyist gifts to Congress

Reason #58:
Pledges to support $50B for AIDS relief in US and world

Reason #59:
Rated 100% by APHA, indicating a pro-public health record.

Reason #60: 
Voted NO on funding GOP version of Medicare prescription drug benefit. (Apr 2001)

Reason #61: 
Voted YES on allowing patients to sue HMOs & collect punitive damages. (Jun 2001)

Reason #62: 
She would never say anything as creepy and cult-like as "We are the ones we have been waiting for."

Reason #63: 
Says, "Torture cannot be American policy, period." (Sep 2007)

Reason #64: 
Rated 100% by SANE, indicating a pro-peace voting record.

Reason #65:
Voted NO on extending the PATRIOT Act's wiretap provision. (Dec 2005)

Reason #66:
Voted YES on requiring CIA reports on detainees & interrogation methods. (Sep 2006)

Reason #67: 
Voted YES on preserving habeas corpus for Guantanamo detainees. (Sep 2006)

Reason #68:
Voted YES on limiting soldiers' deployment to 12 months. (Jul 2007)

Reason #69: 
Voted YES on giving Guest Workers a path to citizenship. (May 2006)

Reason #70:
Voted YES on comprehensive immigration reform. (Jun 2007)

Reason #71: 
Voted: No salary increase for Congress until minimum wage increased.

Reason #72:
Would accept minimum wage as president. (Jul 2007)

Reason #73: 
Rated 85% by the AFL-CIO, indicating a pro-union voting record.

Reason #74:
Voted NO on repealing Clinton's ergonomic rules on repetitive stress. (Mar 2001)

Reason #75:
Voted YES on increasing minimum wage to $7.25.

Reason #76:
Voted YES on restricting employer interference in union organizing

Reason #77:
Admits she made mistake in believing in WMDs in Iraq after being mislead by the Bush Administration.

Reason #78: 
Reaches out to conservatives but voting record is progressive.

Reason #79: 
"Karl Rove is obsessed with me because I take Republicans on & beat them." (Aug 2007)

Reason #80:
Served as a Staff attorney on Watergate/Nixon impeachment investigation.

Reason #81:
1976: Organized Indiana for Carter-Mondale campaign. She knows what it is like to work on a democrat campaign in RED STATES!

Reason #82: :
Rated 100% by the AU, indicating support of church-state separation.

Reason #83:
Voted NO on confirming John Roberts for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

Reason #84:
Voted NO on confirming Samuel Alito as Supreme Court Justice.

Reason #85: 
Rated 100% by the ARA, indicating a pro-senior voting record.

Reason #86: 
Voted YES on increasing tax deductions for college tuition.

Reason #87:
At Wellesley in 1968, steered college anti-war movement.

Reason #88:
Recommended by EMILY's List of pro-choice women.

Reason #89:
Voted YES on shifting $11B from corporate tax loopholes to education. (Mar 2005)

Reason #90: 
1980s: Led her church to found the largest daycare in Arkansas.

Reason #91:
1978: chaired Legal Services Corp. in President Carter's Administration - allowing Poor Families access to legal aid

Reason #92:
Voted YES on implementing the 9/11 Commission report to get us out of Iraq in a fast, safe manner.

Reason #93:
Voted YES on restoring $565M for states' and ports' first responders eliminated by the Bush Administration.

Reason #94:
Worked with Evan Bayh, Al Gore, Bill Clinton and others in the 1980s to rejuvenate the Democratic Party from within.

Reason #95
In 1969, she entered law school as "vehicle for social change."

Reason #96 
Calls to Increase spending for libraries.

Reason #97: 
In October, 2006 - called for "Phased redeployment out of Iraq, beginning immediately."

Reason #98:
IN 1988 Instituted gender diversity Report Card within the American Bar Association, which sets standards for lawyers in the U.S.

Reason #99:
Wants to establish an education "Bill of Rights" - Establish right to education from pre-school through college.

Reason #100:
'Government should pay off all student loans for teachers who go to urban schools." March, 2000

Reason #101:
We simply need another Clinton to clean up the mess left by the second Bush.

Some contents in this page have been borrowed from a list compiled by an anonymous woman in Texas.  All Rights Reserved.