Posted on 09/25/2017 10:03:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Conventional wisdom says women will show solidarity at the polls. But new research shows that for white women, having a husband trumped the sisterhood
Hillary Clinton hoped to wear white on election night, a tribute to the suffragettes and the sweep of political history. Instead, as she wrote in her new book, the white suit stayed in her garment bag as she donned the gray and purple garment she had intended for her first trip to Washington as president-elect.
Given the opportunity to make history by electing the first female president, women didn’t take it. And ironically, the women who bore the most resemblance to Clinton – white, heterosexual and married – were less likely to vote for her.
Many had expected Clinton to rally women, the same way Barack Obama rallied black voters in 2008 – and if she had, she would have handily trumped Donald Trump. But while Obama won 95% of the black vote, Clinton won just 54% of women – a percentage point less than her male predecessor atop the Democratic ticket. Among white women in particular, she fared even worse: a slim majority voted for Trump.
Last week, Clinton, who has had a lifetime to contemplate the women’s vote, copped to having a theory. “[Women] will be under tremendous pressure – and I’m talking principally about white women. They will be under tremendous pressure from fathers and husbands and boyfriends and male employers not to vote for ‘the girl’,” she said in an interview as part of a tour promoting her new memoir of the 2016 campaign.
People might scoff at the idea that women vote based on what husbands and fathers tell them to do. And tens of millions of dollars in political messaging has been spent based on the assumption that women will vote
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
>>And ironically, the women who bore the most resemblance to Clinton – white, heterosexual and married – were less likely to vote for her.
Open marriage with heavy allegations of homosexual encounters in her life
Hilldawg lost.
Where were all these Solidarity types when Sarah Palin was running for VP?
Somebody stop the carnage.
Marry the lefty women and include them in her book. We will never lose. Go ahead. I dare ya...
It was too bad the first opportunity to elect a female president was Hilliary. I would have had no problem voting for a woman in that position - and neither would my husband. She was the WRONG woman for the job. I wonder how long it will take her to finally understand and admit this?
lol!!
Er, the Guardian knows that folks vote in private in America, right?
Nobody had a problem voting for THE Girl, the problem was in voting for Hillary. And...... were it not for illegals and dead people, she wouldn’t have gotten nearly as many votes.
Too bad the felonious bitch was more concerned with wardrobe than Wisconsin. Too bad, so sad. #MonicaTakeAKnee
this was perhaps the saddest story I’ve ever read in my life, I’ve never felt so sorry for Hillary.. My “give a damn” meter was pegged the entire time I was reading. No white dress for Hillary, I’m crushed with grief and my tears flow like rivers.
I searched. A lot of times it doesn’t even turn up the exact title.
To paraphrase Abe Lincoln, I guess only 47% of White women can be fooled all of the time.
The ‘Guardian’ is guilty of COLLUSION.
Suck it the ‘Guardian’!
There is so much drooling drivel in this article it is difficult to know where to begin.
Nonsense. I am a white married woman with children. I am only a few years younger than Hillary and I too have a law degree. But I don’t vote for a president based on skin color, chromosomes or dynastic family name. I vote issues and Hillary had no issues, and her sole platform was “vote for me because it is a woman’s turn”. Too many fell for that ploy eight years previous. And we are paying for it big time.
White, gray, purple -
it’s still a fat woman’s pants suit.
She set women back 50 years.
With all of America’s problems, Hillary was pondering what pants suit to wear.
Trump was worrying about making America great again.
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