On February 18th, 2016 Rodney Ellis wrote an article explaining his reasoning as to why he will support Hillary Clinton in the presidential race called "Why I'm for Hillary Clinton." Rodney Ellis has been a Texas senator since 1990, and is the vice chairman of the Senate State Affairs Committee. With these credentials I can safely say that he is a credible source however he does have a bias since he is a democrat, which can be seen in who he is voting for. Ellis wrote this article in the hopes that his argument on why one should vote for Hillary would sway those voters that are on the edge of picking between Hillary and Bernie or maybe even try to get some people that are looking into what a democrat would support. I believe that Ellis made some good points on Hillary's backstory and giving a small history on what Hillary has done and supported in the past. However, it falls short in that it only mentions her actions in racial and social issues, which are important but one cannot just become president because of those two things. There are economic issues and other types of policies that one must address in order to sway voters. I think this is mainly a way to get people that are worried about these issues and try to pressure them by saying that no one else is doing anything about these problems and that no one has plans to address them. It seems that Ellis wants to try and hide the more controversial ideologies that Hillary has and try to only talk about the problems that any person would want to fix. I believe that Ellis did an okay job in trying to convince people to vote for Hillary but there are other problems that could also be address.
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