This past Tuesday, my home state of Indiana had their Democratic and Republican primary. I wasn't home to vote in person, but I sent in my absentee ballot with my vote for Bernie Sanders. Sanders won that night, and I don't think I've ever been prouder of Indiana.

This is the first election that many of my friends and I have been eligible to vote for. Because of this, I've been paying a lot more attention to the people who are running. I must admit, in the beginning of the election, Hillary Clinton seemed like a solid choice. There was a point where I genuinely thought that I was going to be casting my vote for the secretary this May, but then I started to pay more attention to her and her campaign and I realized how much I didn't like her at all.

One of the very first times I saw Hillary Clinton promote her campaign publicly was on the Ellen Degeneres show. She was whipping and nay-naying and all I can remember feeling was a little secondhand embarrassment for her, but I certainly didn't feel moved to vote for this woman as my future president. Then, a couple months later, she was on Twitter asking people to tell her how they feel about student loan debt in three emojis or less. I can't even think of any emojis that would describe how I feel about my future student loan debt. This one still gets me because it sort of shows the lack of understanding that she, or the people in charge of her Twitter, have for students with debt. She was basically diminishing the struggles people go through with student loan debt to something that can be described in little pictures we use to text with, when I think it's something that can much easier be communicated in words. The other day, she was asking Leslie Knope what kind of president she would be. I understand that almost every politician is trying to get votes and trying to relate to their potential supporters, but with a majority of Clinton’s efforts, I can't help but feel like it's a little desperate and pathetic. Obviously, her attempt is to appeal to millennials, which is a little offensive. I’d like to think that my generation would care less about whether or not their president can do a popular dance move and more about what their president’s views are.

In addition to her obvious attempt to appeal to the young people of the nation, she has changed her mind on some issues. Every Clinton supporter argues that everyone changes their mind and has the right to, which is true, but I'm a little hesitant to accept it when the person changing their mind is running for president and changing their mind on key issues. It's not as if she's even changing her mind in small ways, in some cases, she's changed her mind completely. Again, this is acceptable when you're not running for president. On some of these issues it hasn't even been her changing her mind from years ago, in some cases she's saying things now that she wasn't saying at the beginning of her campaign, which is pretty drastic. It's almost as if she changed her views for the election. I see her as someone who is just wishy washy. This might be acceptable for the average Joe, but I think someone who is elected into office based on their views should have a little more consistency.

I started to see that I didn't like the way that Clinton was campaigning herself, so I started to look at other candidates and that's when I started to learn about Bernie Sanders and his campaign. After listening to him talk about his views, I realized that his views are closer to mine than Clinton’s are and he has much more consistency than she does. I had never heard a politician speak so passionately and honestly about the struggles of the American people. I felt that Clinton lacked this understanding and genuine concern for the people, and that is why I voted for Sanders instead of Clinton.