Her foreign policy isn't her top selling point for me, but I am more in agreement with it than I am against. I don't think Benghazi was 100% her or Obama's fault like quite a bit of the media has pounded out. As an International Relations student, pretty much every foreign policy move is a gamble to a certain extent. Especially when it comes to issues of the middle east, there's never a right answer.

I'm a bigger fan of her economic stances than I am of others. I'm not really going to go through every single one of her statements, but while I tend to be fiscally conservative, I've slowly migrated away from the Republican line because it's become - to me - more and more unhelpful. She's also been ahead on health care, like... way ahead. I've wanted a national health care system since I knew what health care was. As someone who's been turned down insurance because of a pre-existing condition, it's very important to me that a mechanism is in place to make sure I'm not refused care. I'm a bigger fan of Vermont's universal system than I am of the ACA, but I trust that over the years it will be honed, as all other laws have.

But there's also the reality that she's (at least at the moment) the only liberal candidate. I'm an Independent, but I tend to lean to the Democrat side of the spectrum. The Republican party has refused to put up someone who has a decently modern social view.

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I also like Hillary because she's tough. She strikes me as someone who doesn't take a lot of shit, and she's seen it all before. I like that. Don't get me wrong, there's plenty I disagree with her on, but there's no other Democrat on the scene right now, and the Republicans haven't taken anything seriously yet. If Bernie Sanders runs, you'll probably see me on that boat instead.