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Cosmo Hails Historic Number of Women in Congress…
Townhall.com ^ | November 6, 2014 | Cortney O'Brien

Posted on 11/06/2014 4:11:56 PM PST by Kaslin

Wednesday morning, Cosmopolitan magazine hailed the fact that 100 women are going to serve in Congress for the first time ever. The only problem? The magazine rooted against a fifth of them – or at least ignored them.

The fashion magazine for some reason decided to jump into politics this year and endorse candidates for the 2014 midterm elections. Surprise, surprise, all of the politicians they endorsed were pro-abortion Democrats. Here were just a few: Amanda Renteria, Jeanne Shaheen, Alison Lundergan Grimes, Mary Burke, Carol Shea-Porter, Michelle Nunn, Staci Appel, and everyone’s favorite candidate, Wendy Davis.

In the House races, specifically, conservative, pro-life women had a victorious night. Here is a list of those who won, despite Cosmo’s indifference:

Martha Roby, Alabama 2nd district

Susan Brooks, Indiana 5th district

Lynn Jenkins, Kansas 2nd district

Candice Miller, Michigan 10th district

Ann Wagner, Missouri 2nd district

Vicky Hartzler, Missouri 4th district

Renee Ellmers, North Carolina 2nd district

Virginia Foxx, North Carolina 5th district

Elise Stefanik, New York 21st district

Kristi Noem, South Dakota 1st district

Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee 7th district

Kay Granger, Texas 12th district

Mia Love, Utah 4th district

Barbara Comstock, Virginia 10th district

Jaime Herrerra Beutler, Washington 3rd district

Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Washington 5th district

Cynthia Lummis, Wyoming 1st district

Jackie Walorski, Indiana 2nd district

Diane Black, Tennessee 6th district

Republican women that ran unopposed:

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Florida 27th district

Altogether, 19 conservative women were elected into the House of Representatives (plus one uncontested) – and Cosmo did not support a single one of them.

It wasn’t just in the House that Cosmo ignored strong female candidates. Take a look at a few of these Senate winners that won without Cosmo’s “coveted” endorsement:

Joni Ernst, Iowa Senate (Cosmo endorsed her opponent Bruce Braley and said Ernst was a “particularly troubling candidate.”)

Shelly Capito, West Virginia Senate

Susan Collins, Maine Senate

If nothing else, the 2014 midterms proved that Cosmo was way over its head when it decided to participate in politics. Perhaps if they had championed more than abortion rights, they would have fared better. 

Let's be real, Cosmo was never interested in important issues. The magazine took the election so seriously, that it sent a bus full of man candy to college students, came up with a list of why voting was “sexy,” and created a #CosmoVotes drinking game.

Despite that bus full of hunks that was supposed to drive young women to the polls, Democratic turnout in North Carolina was the lowest it’s been since 1984, as Matt points out in his post-election roundup.

Women - especially conservative women - made history Tuesday night. Cosmo made a fool of itself.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2014elections; abortion; joniernst; magazines; prolife; women
The rest of the title is: After Rooting Against Victorious Female Conservatives
1 posted on 11/06/2014 4:11:56 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Now if they’d skip the bra, and show a lot of cleavage, they can get on the cover of Cosmo!


2 posted on 11/06/2014 4:22:41 PM PST by Fido969 (What's sad is most)
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To: Kaslin

It’s ridiculous that they wouldn’t endorse Susan Collins. She is pro-choice and a moderate/liberal on other social issues.


3 posted on 11/06/2014 4:31:48 PM PST by oblomov
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To: Fido969

Does your typical airhead Cosmo reader know what a Congress is?

Unless it’s a brand of nail polish or push up bra, probably not.


4 posted on 11/06/2014 5:03:36 PM PST by elcid1970 ("I am a radicalized infidel.")
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To: Kaslin

Isn’t that a magazine where 90% of the articles cited on the cover are just mindless sex “advice”.


5 posted on 11/06/2014 5:17:08 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Kaslin

Who actually buys Cosmo anymore when one can read it for free in a doctor’s office or hair salon for free!


6 posted on 11/06/2014 5:19:30 PM PST by RginTN
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To: Kaslin
Ah yes, Cosmo. The magazine that tells women they don't need no stinkin' man! All the while their cover come-ons are cleavage, cleavage and more cleavage, and how to be good/better/best in bed.

Either women do, in fact, need a stinkin' man, or they are selling to men who are too embarassed to ask for the porn that's only sold behind-the-counter.

7 posted on 11/06/2014 5:22:51 PM PST by workerbee (The President of the United States is PUBLIC ENEMY #1)
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To: oblomov

Yeah, but she has an R behind her name and that is what counts by those idiots


8 posted on 11/06/2014 6:18:52 PM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: RginTN

If it’s one of those magazines where you have to go through 30 pages of advertisements before you get to an article I wouldn’t even pick it up at a doctors office or hair salon


9 posted on 11/06/2014 6:24:57 PM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: VanDeKoik
Isn’t that a magazine where 90% of the articles cited on the cover are just mindless sex “advice”.

lol. Ever date a woman who got thir sex advice from Cosmo? "What are you doing, there, honey?"

10 posted on 11/07/2014 7:04:23 AM PST by Fido969 (What's sad is most)
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To: Fido969

Back in the 1980’s Cosmo was serious competition for Playboy when it came to pix of bare bosomed women. I looked at those and read the advice articles, to find out what women readers were being taught & what they were told they were supposed to look like.

“In the war between the sexes, it’s so hard to avoid fraternizing with the enemy”


11 posted on 11/07/2014 3:30:22 PM PST by elcid1970 ("I am a radicalized infidel.")
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