Posted on 11/08/2014 4:05:25 AM PST by Kaslin
OK, let’s not mince words. It was abject slaughter in Texas. Republican Greg Abbott beat Democrat Wendy Davis by 21 points [59/38]. Then again, the pro-abortion Davis never really had a chance to win this election in the first place.
Yet, from the darkened lair that is Salon.com, comes a horrid story of the “erasure” of votes cast by women of color in Texas, or something.
Jenny Kutner, the editor who wrote about her plans to have an abortion, wrote this [emphasis mine]:
I am well aware that Wendy Davis lost the Texas governor’s race by a wide margin. It’s salt in a very personal wound.
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The Tribune cited CNN exit polls to illustrate the landslide, saying Abbott “beat Davis by lopsided margins with white voters (72-27), men (65-34) and women (52-47). Davis beat Abbott among Latinos (57-42) and African-Americans (93-7).” Last time I checked, though, there were thousands upon thousands of women in Texas considered Latina and African-American — what about their votes?
As RH Reality Check’s Andrea Grimes reports, their votes were solidly in Davis’ favor: 94 percent of black women and 61 percent of Latinas voted for her. Only 32 percent of white women did. That’s certainly not enough women to say that Abbott won the whole gender (though that’s a ludicrous statement in the first place). It seems to be enough, though, to result in the erasure of votes from women of color, Grimes notes:
You’ll hear that Greg Abbott “carried” women voters in Texas. Anyone who says that is also saying this: that Black women and Latinas are not “women,” and that carrying white women is enough to make the blanket statement that Abbott carried all women. That women generally failed to vote for Wendy Davis. As if women of color are some separate entity, some mysterious other, some bizarre demographic of not-women.
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Once more, with feeling: Greg Abbott and the Republican Party did not win women. They won white women. Time and time again, people of color have stood up for reproductive rights, for affordable health care, for immigrant communities while white folks vote a straight “I got mine” party ticket—even when they haven’t, really, gotten theirs.
Even liberals, like Jonathan Chait, weren’t really buying this voter erasure hypothesis, and the notion that Greg Abbott didn’t win women:
My admittedly crude method of answering the question “Did Greg Abbott or Wendy Davis win the female vote” would be to compare the number of women who voted for Abbott with the number of women who voted for Davis, and define the larger number as the winner.
No way, says Kutner, citing Andrea Grimes, who likewise argues that it is racist to credit Abbott with winning the women’s vote merely because more women voted for him than his opponent
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Nobody is saying the votes of women of color don’t count. Everybody’s vote counts for one vote. I am comfortable stating that Barack Obama won the women’s vote in 2012, even though he lost white women.
Kutner calls this method “the erasure of votes from women of color.” Well, no. Being outvoted is not erasure. Until somebody develops a new, less racist way of comparing the value of two numbers, people are going to define the winner of a group as the candidate with more votes.
When you look at the exit polls, yes, Abbott won White women 66/31 over Davis. But he also got:
One doubts that the DNC and Soros messed up
their “calibrations” in Texas.
All fraud comes from Holder and the DO”J” in their
now systematic election fraud to continue their
attacks on the American people, the Constitution and Law.
Orwell was by far the greatest political prognosticator of the 20th century.
Now they know what it is like to be a conservative voting in Minnesota.
A Conservative Republican Tea Party candidate won Wendy Davis old seat in the Texas Senate!
Somebody needs to go back to school for some instruction in logic....
Vespa ...... presstitute.
Deem the vote?
So, 94% of Black women want to stop their family lines dead and 61% of Latinas want the same. It makes me feel dirty to say it, but it might help solve our problems...
I guess it makes about as much sense as saying she lost because the Republicans Gerrymandered the voting districts......
“I am well aware that Wendy Davis lost the Texas governor’s race by a wide margin. It’s salt in a very personal wound.”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
What about the blue eyed pygmy vote? Were their votes “erased?”
Really, we can splinter the country into a million groups and subgroups (and subgroups of groups) all day long. IT DOESN’T MATTER. What matters is who got the most votes.
“Now they know what it is like to be a conservative voting in Minnesota.”
Or VT, only 3 Republicans on the entire ballot. Although Scott Milne almost took down our commie governor Peter Shumlin.
One thing that turns women voters off is off the chart meanness, no matter what the party. That one was jaw dropping, and a big reason she went from being down 10 points in the race, to losing it by over 20.
Sometime—most of the time—what a leftist is saying is so stupid, it takes tremendous effort to believe that what he’s really saying. All this idiot is really saying is that when the left loses—racism!
I love the point about how the “winner” is the person who got the most votes!
BTW: Notice that NO reporter EVER has asked Algore the following questions:
What was the temperature of the Earth 20 years ago?
What is the temperature of the Earth now?
What is the correct temperature of the Earth?
I'd say all they need is a dictionary and a calculator.
Is it just me or is this one of the most stupid, racist statements of the whole hit piece?
But juxtaposed against the “evil” of women voting pro-Life is the glorious paradise of black women and Latinas voting a straight “I got mine” party ticket.
Left off this sentence.
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