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:
Maybe white women will have their votes valued at three fifths so as to not erase the votes of other women...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
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...Abbott Derangement Syndrome begins.
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
Well let’s just give her the governorship, by golly.
Liberals are just freakin’ stoopid.
Bull cookies.
It was nice to see Abbott roll on to victory!
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?
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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