Posted on 10/15/2007 8:54:31 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
Hillary Clinton's campaign Monday made its most overt bid yet to highlight her historic potential as the possible first US woman president, suggesting female voters could vault her to victory. The front-running Democrat kicked off a week of events highlighting her perceived appeal to women, as her campaign released a memo implying she could best exploit the "pivotal" voting bloc in 2008.
"Women are and will be a powerful force in American politics this presidential election," the memo said.
"They were the critical swing voters in the last three elections and they promise to again play a pivotal role in this one," Clinton's top strategist Mark Penn wrote in the memo.
Less than three months before first party nominating contests, the memo argued the New York Senator was trouncing her fellow Democrats and potential Republican rivals in the battle for the female vote.
The campaign said its own polling revealed that 94 percent of young women said they would be more likely to show up at the polls if a first female presidential nominee was on the ballot.
The fact Clinton is the first woman candidate with a realistic shot at becoming president has been an underlying theme of the campaign, but has not been as overtly referenced before at a national level -- possibly to avoid alienating unaffiliated male voters.
"As Hillary says, she is not running as a woman candidate -- the only reason to vote for her is that you believe she is the most qualified to be president," Penn's memo said.
At campaign events however, Clinton usually earns enthusiastic cheers by mentioning the historic potential of her presidential bid.
"If you hear someone saying that America can't elect a woman president ... tell them to come with me," Clinton told a service employees union here in September, saying she hears parents point to her and tell their young daughters 'see, honey, you can do whatever you want to do in life.'"
Clinton's rivals for the Democratic nomination have been doing their best to counter her effort to woo women voters.
Senator Barack Obama's wife Michelle has often been an outspoken advocate for her husband's attempt to slash into Clinton's large opinion poll lead.
Elizabeth Edwards, wife of another Democratic candidate, John Edwards, caused a stir in July by suggesting in an interview with Salon.com that he would be a better advocate for women's issues than Clinton.
Sen.Clinton [Leno Show]: "Jay, there are literally millions of people who have never read a printed book.
You cannot believe, Jay, how many people I have met who have told me
that MY book is the FIRST BOOK they have ever read."
Sen.Clinton [Leno Show]: “Jay, there are literally millions of people who have never read a printed book.
You cannot believe, Jay, how many people I have met who have told me
that MY book is the FIRST BOOK they have ever read.”
Sounds a lot like what Mao Tse-Tung said. Note the resemblance in fashion as well.
“The campaign said its own polling revealed that 94 percent of young women said they would be more likely to show up at the polls if a first female presidential nominee was on the ballot.”
So why would they vote for hillary?
eesh. Everytime that woman opens her screeching mouth, I feel disrespected.
Hillary Clinton is playing the ‘female card’?
Who’s the stand in?
Lobbying hard for the Wymyns' Vote.
Ack! Rush is playing clips of Mrs. Clinton appearing on the View today cackling with the hens.
You have to admit it is a powerful political message: “look I have the same genitalia as you do- vote for me”!
They can't fool me.
Hmmmm,.....”Sisters On Sisters”....
Was this some kind of lesbian group Hildabeast was speaking to?
Yup. I saw the SPY magazine cover too.
YOU GAG GIRL!
THE RAPSIT AND MISS SMELLY.
That's true and generally women vote more Democratic than GOP. But I didn't know Hillary was a woman.....
And if American women want things to get much worse than they are (and they're pretty bad) be sure to vote for the senator from New Yarkansas for president.
Which candidate will close the borders and deport all the criminals who are trespassing, gobbling up the welfare bucks, raping citizens, killing citizens, filling up the prisons?
(Clue: it won't be Rudy.)
Thanks President Bush for allowing this nation to become filled with the scum, castoffs and terrorists who streamed across our southern border.
More appropriate if she played the Satanic card.
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