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2+2=5: Women Of Color Had Their Votes Erased In Texas
Townhall.com ^
| November 7, 2014
| Matt Vespa
Posted on 11/08/2014 4:05:25 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, with these dog-whistle, race baiters is about race. Just as back in the 60's they used to say that hippies looked at everything through rose-colored glasses, these race hustlers look at everything through "black-colored" glasses. Eric Holder is a prime example of this.
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posted on
11/08/2014 5:22:00 AM PST
by
HotHunt
To: Kaslin
This sounds like the need for an election "curve"'or "handicap" to be used when the number of white women voters outnumbers non white women voters.
Maybe white women will have their votes valued at three fifths so as to not erase the votes of other women...
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posted on
11/08/2014 5:27:45 AM PST
by
NativeSon
( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
To: Kaslin
. . . people of color have stood up for reproductive rights . . . More accurate to say that they stand in line for abortions at Planned Parenthood mills because normal family life has collapsed among the castes enslaved to big government.
To: catfish1957
"One thing that turns women voters off is off the chart meanness, no matter what the party." This seemed to be the trend in this election. Women rejected Fluke, Davis, Hagan, Grimes, and Coakley. (By rejecting candidates Hillary endorsed, they rejected Hillary also.) Women have rendered a verdict on female candidates, and irritating bossy females are mostly no longer desired. There are a some who are still unbeatable, like DWS, Pelosi and Waters, but they may be a disappearing species in politics.
I think that women were frightened because of Ebola and diseased immigrant children. I think they were shocked and angry about the sudden number of pro same sex marriage rulings by the courts. At some point, the Dems crossed a critical line in the sand, and as long as Obama is so tone deaf, they won't vote for any more Dems.
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posted on
11/08/2014 6:00:42 AM PST
by
Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
To: RayChuang88
The fems thought Davis out smarted the men when she cheated and wore a catheter during her filibuster. I suspect that women in general were disgusted.
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posted on
11/08/2014 6:03:59 AM PST
by
Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
To: Kaslin
Cutting through the pseudo intellectual political analysis, most Texans view “baby butchers” as really nasty bitches! Evil people like Wendy Davis ensure that most of us vote “straight ticket Republican” It helps insure that one does not accidently vote for an abortionist, pervert, brazen thief or agent of Al Queda.
To: Kaslin
Posted this yesterday, it still cracks me up
The money quote from Derek Hunter's Townhall article today:
The only consolation for Wendy Davis is she got more votes than MSNBC has viewers, so when they finally fire Ronan Farrow she can boast of a larger possible audience than the network currently has.
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posted on
11/08/2014 6:14:15 AM PST
by
tx_eggman
(Liberalism is only possible in that moment when a man chooses Barabas over Christ.)
To: Kaslin
As RH Reality Checks 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. Thats certainly not enough women to say that Abbott won the whole gender (though thats 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:
Quite possibly the most convoluted and contrived post-election analytical reasoning.
The CNN polls sited don't go into multiple breakdowns. They don't show white men, or latino men or black men either. They do show that while Abbott won whites by a significant margin (70%+) he only won women by 52%. The conclusion that he rec'd overwhelming support of white women and lost latino and black women by significant % is, well, obvious to anyone with a basic understanding of statistics.
So what we're really seeing here is 1) the lamentation of people who aren't really capable of a little thing called "extrapolation" (or don't think that their audience is) wanting things explained at an in-your-face level of obviousness and 2) the continuation, and expansion of the whole "vote shaming" thing we saw starting a few weeks out from the election.
On that latter note, it's important to look at the Andrea Grimes article cited. In it she makes the statement that white women "failed" Davis. Classic identity politics shaming/intimidation tactic. Women are supposed to vote for women (or, at least, Democrat women) because they're ... women.
So the proper way to view this pap is as political advocacy masking itself as analysis, NOT as reasonable/logical analysis.
To: Diogenesis
The DNC/Sorass vote fraud was made much more difficult by VOTER ID.
Their standard voter fraud is not very effective in wide margin elections. Attempting to subterfuge beyond a few percentage points requires too much potential “exposure”.
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posted on
11/08/2014 6:57:50 AM PST
by
X-spurt
(CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
To: NativeSon
I think you have hit upon the true goal of the dems. Now that Voter ID is crimping their vote cheat, how else will they attain their beloved ‘progressive’ socialism?
What the hell? We owes it to’s em.
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posted on
11/08/2014 7:04:51 AM PST
by
X-spurt
(CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
To: Kaslin
Youll 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. Uh, NO, he IS saying that ALL women are women. That's why all are counted as one group of voters - women.
As if women of color are some separate entity, some mysterious other, some bizarre demographic of not-women.
Uh, NO, that's what YOU'RE saying - YOU are the one declaring "women of color" as a separate entity that shouldn't be counted under the category of women.
Once more, with feeling: Greg Abbott and the Republican Party did not win women. They won white women.
????? LOL. What a riot.
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
No way, says Kutner, citing Andrea Grimes, who likewise argues that it is racist to credit Abbott with winning the womens vote merely because more women voted for him than his opponent...
Abbott Derangement Syndrome begins.
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posted on
11/08/2014 7:19:25 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Kaslin
Too stupid for words ...when did we start determining the winner of elections by gender and race? Liberal’s wet dream ...votes counted by race and gender..a Black or Latina woman’s vote is worth 2 white male votes
To: Kaslin
Well let’s just give her the governorship, by golly.
Liberals are just freakin’ stoopid.
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posted on
11/08/2014 7:54:27 AM PST
by
tiki
To: Kaslin
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posted on
11/08/2014 7:56:04 AM PST
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: catfish1957
It was nice to see Abbott roll on to victory!
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posted on
11/08/2014 7:57:37 AM PST
by
Michael.SF.
(It takes a gun to feed a village.)
To: Kaslin
citing Andrea Grimes, who likewise argues that it is racist to credit Abbott with winning the womens vote merely because more women voted for him than his opponent Dang! I never thought of it that way. May cause me to vote for the rat next time.
Don't you just love liberal logic?
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posted on
11/08/2014 8:48:20 AM PST
by
Graybeard58
(Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. Eccl 12 V.13)
To: Kaslin
Only 32 percent of white women did. Thats certainly not enough women to say that Abbott won the whole gender (though thats a ludicrous statement in the first place). Absolutely. Which is why I've always said the Republicans DO NOT have a Woman problem. They have a Race problem. The Dems have the problem with women, because if the racial margins narrowed, that would bring the women's votes along with it.
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posted on
11/08/2014 9:18:02 AM PST
by
Tanniker Smith
(Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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posted on
11/08/2014 9:21:14 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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posted on
11/08/2014 9:22:02 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
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