Posted on 09/20/2007 7:17:05 AM PDT by HoosierGirl25
Fact: 54% of voters in the 2004 election were women and that’s good news for Hillary Clinton (D-NY). According to various news reports, Clinton employs six full-time staffers specifically for women’s outreach -- more than any other candidate -- to reel in the female vote.
For now, Clinton leads Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) in the Democratic race by a 42-23% (according to the latest RCP poll) margin and will likely take the nomination for 2008. She knows how critical that female vote is, which is why she participated in a Women in Public Policy (WIPP) event yesterday. Clinton used the opportunity to tout her freshly unveiled healthcare agenda.
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“For decades the media has been saying that women will decide the next election.”
Same for the “youth vote”, etc. Same old, same old.
The womens movement set out to prove how independent and intelligent we are. Does that stop with our ability to think and reason ? Just because a candidate is a women an assumption should not be made that women will vote for her.
see my post #20
women also like men, not poofters
Me too.....the friends that I talk politics with, would never vote Democrap.
It doesn’t take guts - it’s easy to spout a stereotype and much harder to think.
The voter competence test used to be property ownership - if you could accumulate a few assets, you could vote. It tended to cut out the felons, drunks, bums, and shiftless. Now those people just vote democrat.
The rise of socialism in this country coincides with teh women's suffrage movement.
Were men involved? Sure, men pandering to women.
“54% of voters in the 2004 election were women and that’s good news for Hillary Clinton (D-NY)”
“86% of the gun owners in he 2004 election were men and that’s bad news for Hillary Clinton.”
I am a woman, and many of the women I know would not vote for Hillary. There are also a good % of women who are fun owners or supporters of NRA. :)
And then they act like whatever group is going to decide the election is somehow going to vote as a united block.
What they will never admit to is their desire to marginalize white, middle class male voters.
Prejudice is the honor common sense pays to experience.
“I really dislike stereotyped thinking - it shows a lack of intellectual capacity.”
Stereotypes usually come about due to a basis in fact. Not all Arabs are terrorists, but most terrorists are Arab. If I’m at an airport trying to find someone who is likely to blow up a plane, should I search the 86 year old white woman, or the 35 year old Arab male?
Where stereotypes become a problem is when policy becomes absolute based on stereotypes. That’s dangerous and wrong, e.g. denying all women the vote simply because many are not informed. But, it doesn’t mean that many, maybe even most women, will freely admit, they are “not political”.
and, how many of those women will sell their soul? to have shrillery?
Therefore, there's no need to stress out over the election, or whether some group or another appears to be voting like idiots - the Empire will remain in the same hands it has been in since Reagan left office.
Oh please calm down. I’d happily not vote if it meant these ignorant left wing bitches were kept from the polls.
as a woman, i have nothing but contempt for any woman who would vote for a candidate on the basis of gender.
“The voter competence test used to be property ownership - if you could accumulate a few assets, you could vote. “
Not all bad, but I think that an information test would be superior to a means test. People, reasonably bright people, can not be property owners for a variety of reasons. Information is freely available. Consume it, and be able to make some small amount of sense of it, and you should be allowed to vote, without regard to race, gender, or social class.
Clearly you have not studied history. When was suffrage - 19th amendment ? It was passed in 1919.
When was the progressive party aka socialists active in American politics ? Starting before 1912.
When did Teddy Roosevelt get elected president ? 1901 and 1904. Who was the leader of the progressive party ? TR. Did women vote in those elections ? No.
WHo was elected in 1912 - the progressive, Wilson. % women voting for him ? 0%
Need any more history lessons ?
Those who do not know their history are condemned to poor thinking and repeating leftist shibboleths.
I like the competency test as well. It’s about awareness, not gender.
Challenging a stereotype is the easiest of all. Come up with one exception and you're a genius. Forget the vast majority of the time the stereotype holds true.
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