As the party here at Amsterdam Atlanta is wrapping up (blame it on the apparent Huckabee victory in Georgia), I'm reminded of a funny little political meme that made the rounds a few months back: T-shirts and bumper stickers with the slogan, "Don't tell mama — I'm for Obama!"
Tonight, I felt a hint of that sentiment coming instead from closet fans of Hillary Clinton, supporters who were quiet at the start of the evening but got more vocal as the night wore on. (Maybe it was the alcohol.)
"I know that most of my gay friends are for Obama," David Prophitt, a nonprofit manager and fan of Hillary, told me. "If you add up the gays and the African American voters in Georgia, it comes out to be a pretty big number."
But as Clinton started racking up wins in states like Massachusetts and Tennessee, the Hill-heads in the room made their presence known — much to the chagrin of some Obama supporters.
Harrison Perry, a self-proclaimed "reformed Republican," says he was wooed into the Obama camp by the candidate's enthusiasm. "I mainly like his freshness — and his sense of competency." And even if Clinton does turn out to be the night's big winner, Perry puts it this way: "It's definitely not over yet for either of them."
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