For 2 years now, my car has proudly sported an "I'm ready for Hillary" bumper sticker. I was #WithHer before she announced her candidacy, when it was still something that people all over America still hoped and dreamt might happen. There's been a lot of talk in those two years, leading up to now. She currently holds the lead over the GOP candidate, and is favored to win against him.

She has made it this far for a reason. It's not by chance, or magic or because she is the wife of a president whose term saw the United States fall upon good economic times. She has risen to the top as a democratic candidate in a time where her counterpart, former Vermont senator, Bernie Sanders, was favored by many for his fresh ideas about 21st century issues that face Americans in their daily lives.Hillary Rodham Clinton is in the final stretch of the 2016 political race for president because she has proven herself worthy of the position.

She has shown her persistance as a candidate, not faltering from supporting issues such as helping to make higher education more affordable for Americans outside the upper class, supporting reproductive rights issues, gender pay inequality issues, LGBTQ equality issues, issues of racial equality, and more. She has also been resilient to comments from her critics, even when some chose to remark on her marriage to former president Bill Clinton. In the way that she has responded to sexist criticisms from GOP candidate Donald Trump, she has shown America that she is a woman of class, who can represent us as an intelligent, respectable nation to the world.

Clinton (I hope I don't need to clarify that I mean Mrs. Clinton, from this point forward in conversation or writing) has proven that her heart and soul is dedicated to helping to upkeep Obama's America, while also making improvements where they are due. Her campaign song "Fight Song," by Rachel Platten, is empowering to to women and Americans everywhere. Her supporters are certainly not limited to females, though some like to argue that she has made it to where she is "just because she's a woman". In truth, she has made it to where she is despite the fact that she is a woman. In fact, what she has accomplished in her 68 years of life exceeds beyond what some male counterparts have in their 70 years.

All in all, I am so very proud to have supported Hillary Clinton since I was 19 years old. I am proud that as a 20-year-old college student, I voted for her in my first Massachusetts' democratic primary. And I am proud that I will cast my vote for her in the fall of 2016, as a 21-year-old college senior. But furthermore, I am proud of America, for supporting a candidate that has our best interests at heart.

For more information about Clinton and her campaign, read here.