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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The wealthiest pro-abortion group in the country has flip-flopped on whether pro-abortion presidential candidate Barack Obama can attract women voters to his campaign. Emily's List founder Ellen Malcolm said, during the Democratic Party primary, that wasn't possible. Now, she's changed her tune.During the height of the Democratic primary in April, Malcolm wasn't so sure whether Obama had the capacity to match Hillary Clinton, whom her group endorsed, in terms of reaching women."I don't think we can answer that at this point," she said at the time. "I think one of the unanswered questions going forward...

A brother of New York Sen. Hillary Clinton and local Democrats who backed her unsuccessful presidential campaign socialized privately Monday with a top surrogate of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Arizona Sen. John McCain. The private gathering featured Carly Fiorina, Mr. McCain’s top economic adviser, and took place at the Dunmore home of political consultant Jamie Brazil, a longtime friend of Mrs. Clinton’s family who has signed on as paid national director of Mr. McCain’s Citizens for McCain Coalition. The attendees included Tony Rodham, Mrs. Clinton’s youngest sibling, his wife, Megan, and their two children; attorney Kathleen Granahan Kane, who...

Early on in the general election, the McCain campaign announced to great fanfare that they were going to make an all-out effort to pursue the female vote and win over disaffected Hillary supporters. Since then, Obama advisers have been very sensitive about stories saying he is struggling among women. And today, Dana Singiser, Obama's senior advisor for the women's vote, uncorked a detailed and extensive memo making the case that McCain's the candidate struggling with the female vote. It asks: "Does McCain have a Woman Problem?" Despite his campaign's outreach efforts, McCain's attempt to bridge the gender gap has fallen...

THE MOST remarkable fact of the 2008 presidential election is that it remains a close race. Democrats have not known such favorable political terrain since 1932, yet what should be a blowout is looking like a blanket finish. The fundamental reason is white men. Like Al Gore in the summer of 2000, Barack Obama is roughly splitting white women. But only 34 to 37 percent of white men support Obama, according to the Gallup Poll's latest weekly index of 6,000 voters. In fairness to Obama, he inherited the problem. Not since 1976, when Democrats last achieved a majority, has a...

A group of Hillary Clinton supporters wants the Democratic national platform to include a line decrying "pervasive gender bias in the media," but a new poll of attitudes among women about the '08 campaign does not lend much support to the push. The survey, a joint endeavor by well-known Republican pollster Kellyanne Conway and Democratic counterpart Celinda Lake, found that "despite all the talk about sexism in the presidential campaign, the majority of women voters laid the blame for Hillary's loss squarely on her and her strategists' shoulders; they largely reject gender as a cause of her demise." The precise...

Almost 20 percent of women who voted for Hillary Rodham Clinton said they were now John McCain supporters, but Barack Obama was still leading in a poll of female voters. The Lifetime Network national poll showed that women were coalescing around their candidates but that neither had sealed the deal by breaking the 50 percent mark: Mr. Obama led Mr. McCain 49-38 percent. "Women will elect the next president," said pollster Celinda Lake, referring to the largest voting bloc in presidential elections. In most primary states, women were 55 percent or more of the electorate. Married women, who most often...

Barack Obama has lost ground among some of his strongest bases of support, including young people, women, Democrats and independents, according to a new ATV/Zogby poll. The Illinois Democrat has also lost some support among African-Americans and Hispanics, where his lead over Republican John McCain has shrunk, and among Catholics, where he's lost his lead. The net result, pollster John Zogby found, is a race that's neck and neck, with McCain supported by 42 percent; Obama by 41 percent; Libertarian Bob Barr by 2 percent; and independent Ralph Nader by 2 percent. Another 13 percent supported other candidates or were...

RUSH: Yesterday we had a caller on this program, Janet from Maine, and this is what Janet said. BEGIN ARCHIVE CLIP CALLER: I just wanted to posit a new idea about Obama, as to why he's not sweeping us all off our feet, even though he was causing women to faint earlier this year -- RUSH: Tell me. CALLER: -- at the rallies. RUSH: Tell me, tell me, say it, say it. CALLER: He's not likable. It's really simple. The man is odious. He talks like a girl. You ran a clip yesterday of Gloria Steinem, excuse me, Jane Fonda....

If soccer moms determined the outcome of the 1996 presidential race and security moms tipped the balance in 2004, it is beginning to look as if older moms are the key to the 2008 contest. Obama has a problem among women over 40 and a big problem among women over 50. These groups, normally the staunchest of Democratic supporters, are showing a propensity to back McCain. According to the latest Fox News survey, Obama is winning among women under 40 by 13 points, but McCain is winning among women aged 41-45 by four points. Among women 50 and over, McCain...

Anger management for womenWe regard irritability in men as a sign of status. But in women, we see it as a sign of incompetence Clare Longrigg guardian.co.uk, Friday July 11, 2008 Hillary Clinton's occasional irritable outbursts on the campaign trail were accompanied by a sound of tut-tutting from observers: she can't hack it; she's not in control. Had she been a man, these outbursts of anger would have been interpreted as assertiveness, intolerance of fools, a sign of status. A Yale psychologist who worked in Clinton's office has produced a report demonstrating that while people accept anger in men, in...

Madison, WI -- Republican presidential candidate John McCain is going after the female vote by hosting a women-only town hall meeting Friday in Wisconsin. The first-of-its-kind event for the McCain campaign is the latest and most overt attempt to woo women turned off by Democrat Barack Obama's rivalry with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton during the primaries. Obama also has been courting female voters. He and Clinton have campaigned together to help smooth over hard feelings. His wife, Michelle Obama, is holding round-table meetings with women this week, and Clinton's former director of women's outreach is now working for Obama. McCain's...

From Former foes Clinton, Obama present picture of unity (6/28/08): Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton embraced, praised each other and locked hands in unity Friday, hoping to persuade legions of still-skeptical Clinton backers to rally around her one-time rival. "She rocks. That's the point I'm trying to make," a grinning Obama told the throng of 4,000 squeezed into a soccer field in the small western New Hampshire town of Unity... Both candidates said their six-month rivalry, which ended early this month when the Illinois senator clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, was history. "We may have started on separate paths,...

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) will continue his outreach to female voters Thursday when he returns to Capitol Hill for a meeting with female Democratic House members. “This is his chance to seal the deal with women members,” said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), formerly an ardent supporter of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) who now fully supports Obama and plans to attend. The afternoon session at Democratic National Committee headquarters is the final part of Obama’s outreach to the representatives of divided constituencies. He met with the Congressional Black and Hispanic caucuses last week, but the meeting...

ALBUQUERQUE, June 23 -- As Hillary Rodham Clinton prepared to return to life in the Senate and announced that she will campaign with Sen. Barack Obama in New Hampshire on Friday, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee began reaching out to female voters who had formed the backbone of Clinton's support in the primary season. The Obama-Clinton event will take place in the town of Unity, in the southwest corner of a swing state that Obama hopes to carry in November. The symbolism goes beyond the town's name, as Clinton and Obama each won 107 votes there in the January primary....

The attack of the PUMAs, or a dozen reasons why Clinton voters are still too angry to come home. If you're a dedicated Democrat -- or perhaps even one of those fed-up Republicans we've heard about -- there's a good chance you're pretty stoked right about now. After a grueling but thrilling primary contest, we at last have decided on a history-making, barrier-breaking Democratic presidential candidate. You're excited! You're inspired! You're ready to hit rural Ohio with enough campaign literature to choke a wavering independent! But why do you keep hearing all these stories about grumpy old ladies still hung...

Yo'Bama to Women: Get Over It It's becoming fairly obvious that the Democrat party, and their hangars-on, are willing to excuse just about any foible when it concerns their newly crowned prince. A few days ago, Yo'Bama! met with members of the Congressional Black Caucus in Washington. During the meeting the issue of "healing" the party came up in relation to helping gain the trust and support of the majority, who voted for Hillary Clinton during the primary process. Sources at the meeting said that Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, a Clinton supporter, expressed the desire that Obama and his...

Sunday, June 22, 2008 11:42:32 AM · Presumptive Democratic nominee Barak Obama today made a surprise visit to Sweet Apple, Ohio, where he addressed an enthusiastic crowd of Hillary Clinton supporters about his vision for an Obama presidency. The appearance is seen as part of an initiative aimed at reaching out to disgruntled female Clinton voters, and gives a preview of what the electorate is likely to likely to hear from Senator Obama at next Friday's public rally appearance with Mrs. Clinton at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington D.C. Video here.

The Mayflower Hotel in Washington DC has hosted many landmark political meetings. FBI director J Edgar Hoover lunched there every day, President Harry Truman once lived in it and JFK kept a mistress there. But few assignations will have been as important as the one taking place between Senator Barack Obama and Senator Hillary Clinton. It will be the first official joint appearance by the two titans of the Democratic party as they move towards healing the deep divisions in its ranks. The pair will meet privately on Thursday with top Clinton donors. For Obama, the meeting is vital to...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Carly Fiorina is quickly becoming the new face of John McCain's campaign. Once considered the most powerful businesswoman in the United States, Fiorina has evolved from the Republican presidential candidate's top economic adviser to a catch-all advocate and attack dog on a range of subjects from women's issues to the Iraq war. It's a far cry from the corporate boardroom but the former Hewlett-Packard chief executive appears to be in her element and the Arizona senator clearly likes it that way. Thus the question: if McCain wins the White House, where will Fiorina end up? "It is...

Barrack Obama has women troubles, and Hillary Clinton far from the alone as a problem. Danger lurks much closer to home. First there are the 13 million disaffected women who supported Hillary not for her agenda but for her gender.  Fifteen times in her concession speech Hillary name-checked Barack Obama and fifteen times there were loud boos in the audience.  Yes, many will back Obama, but Democrats, unlike Republicans, don't fall in line.  In one poll 40 per cent of Clinton supporters said they will not support Obama; whether that turns into votes for McCain is another matter.   Then there...

Is sexism still a potent force in American cultural and political life? Well, of course it is. Just survey the seats of power -- from the swank offices of CEOs to the floor of the U.S. Senate -- and you'll come across few women. Or just read my e-mail, where you're likely to stumble across a weird strain of racism steeped in misogyny (or misogyny steeped in racism). But Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is too bright and too clearheaded to believe that her improbable defeat at the hands of Sen. Barack Obama is due to bigotry against assertive women. Surely...

If Barack Obama wants to make inroads with Hillary Clinton’s disaffected female voters, he has work to do. Primary race exit polling showed white female voters have supported Clinton by 24 more points than Obama and his favorability ratings among white women suffered a 13-point drop-- from 56 percent to 43 percent-- since last February, according to a May 29 Pew Research polling report. The same poll showed Obama losing that demographic by eight points to his GOP general election opponent John McCain, 41 to 49 percent. The gap was also apparent in a private poll conducted last month by...

We've gotten an avalanche of emails from around the country this week in the wake of news that Sen. Hillary Clinton will be closing out her campaign Saturday. This one, from Billie Bromer of Augusta, Georgia, is representative of many, capturing the sentiments of Hillary supporters -- angry, aggrieved, mournful -- as they watch the end of a landmark campaign. What it shows: the considerable challenges ahead for the Obama campaign -- and the Democratic Party -- when it comes to winning these voters over in the next 150 days. Take a read: I am one of those 'upset' Hillary...

Mourning but determined, feminists eye economy Fri Jun 6, 2008 3:12pm EDT By Claudia Parsons NEW YORK (Reuters) - Feminists are as determined as ever to put "women's issues" at the center of the U.S. election campaign this year despite Hillary Clinton's exit. And by that they mean the economy. "Whoever wins the presidency in November, it will be because they were able to appeal to women voters," Kim Gandy of the national Organization for Women said at a conference of the National Council for Research on Women in New York this week. The New York senator will withdraw from...

Amy Klobuchar was a swing voter this year. At the outset of the 2008 race, the 48-year-old Senator from Minnesota was exactly the kind of voter Hillary Clinton's campaign was counting on. Women a generation older would be safely in their camp. Younger women would be susceptible to Obamamania. Clinton's team thought that those in Klobuchar's demographic--professional, well-educated women who came of age during the modern women's movement--would be moved by the very real opportunity to put one of their own in the White House. It hasn't quite worked out that way. While Klobuchar's 80-year-old mother is an ardent Clinton...

Amy Siskind, a 42-year-old mother of two from Westchester, stood in a Washington, D.C., park on the last day in May, telling a few hundred cheering people that she would not, under any circumstances, vote for Barack Obama. She was a lifelong Democrat, she said, a donor and a volunteer for the party. But, watching the race with a "mixture of shock, disgrace, and disgust," she was appalled at the leadership's failure to defend Hillary Clinton from the sexism that she believes bolstered Barack Obama's campaign. "Now I have a message for Howard Dean and the DNC," she said into...

McLaughlin: McCain Leads Obama Among Women, 49 Percent to 38 Percent A part of Robert Novak's column that is likely to be widely overlooked: This resentment is reflected in a private nationwide poll conducted this month by McLaughlin and Associates, which usually works for Republicans but is not connected with the McCain campaign. Poll-taker John McLaughlin found that John McCain had a 49 percent to 38 percent edge over Obama among all women. That is an extraordinary result, running counter to a longtime Democratic advantage. The conventional wisdom is that women, along with other Clinton backers, will remain in the...

This is a fairly good sign for Obama, and one most people probably didn't see coming - at least not this quickly: The feminist icon whose writings inspired thousands of American women to a passionate support of Hillary Clinton said yesterday she was not at all crushed by Hillary's loss and believes her race has "absolutely" been good for women. But she now not only supports Democratic nominee Barack Obama, she'll volunteer for him, too. "I think she changed forever our understanding of the possibilities of leadership," Gloria Steinem said of Hillary in a Herald interview after a morning appearance...

Attorney Margaret “MarDee” Xifaras has been ousted after 28 years from the state’s delegation to the Democratic National Committee by what one supporter describes as “hard-core Hillary feminists” upset with her endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama for president in a state that went for Sen. Clinton. ... After cheerfully saying, “I’m still standing,” Mrs. Xifaras told The Standard-Times, “It was interesting to watch because there was a fair amount of disconcert from friends, partly female friends, that I had chosen to support Obama.” Susan Thomson, who until recently was the state party’s executive director, campaigned to replace Mrs. Xifaras, and...

The woman who shouted "McCain in '08" at the Democratic rules committee was speaking for a multitude. After mounting for months, female anger over the choreographed dumping on Hillary Clinton and her supporters has exploded -- and party loyalty be damned. That the women are beginning to have a good time is an especially bad sign for Barack Obama's campaign. "Obama will NOT get my vote, and one step more," Ellen Thorp, a 59-year-old flight attendant from Houston told me. "I have been a Democrat for 38 years. As of today, I am registering as an independent. Yee Haw!" A...

...If it's any consolation to Senator Clinton, she's not the only female to find that social progress is strangely accommodating of old-time sexism.... There's a lot of that about. Sex-selective abortion is a fact of life in India, where the gender ratio has declined to 1,000 boys to 900 girls nationally, and as low as 1,000 boys to 300 girls in some Punjabi cities. In China, the state-enforced "one child" policy has brought about the most gender-distorted demographic cohort in global history, the so-called guang gun — "bare branches." If you can only have one kid, parents choose to abort...

Because all the smart, hip, young "progressives" were enthralled by Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic Party elite were able to convince themselves that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton had no real supporters -- or, at least, no supporters with the kind of passionate intensity that Obama's acolytes could bring to the campaign. Wrong. Hillary's most ardent supporters tend to be women of a certain age, but their intensity shouldn't be underestimated just because they belong to a post-menopausal demographic. As they've watched their girl get shoved aside by the brash Obama and his youthful cohorts, Hillary's army of liberal crones has...

I'm getting the biggest kick out of watching the latest trend on the 2008 campaign trail. It appears that angy Hillary supporters are livid enough to vote for a Republican[John McCain]. Hell hath no fury... :) Here are two examples from yesterday's meeting of the DNC rules committee. These clips are priceless as well as prophetic. (See videos)

UNITED STATES -- Hillary Clinton's supporters stormed out of a raucous meeting of the Democratic National Committee's Rules Committee. The candidate herself is just as outraged over the decision on how to seat Michigan's delegates. Clinton says she's may appeal the ruling, which means the fight for the nomination wouldn't be decided until the party's august convention in Denver. These Clinton supporters are all for that. “She's a fighter. That's why she's still here. That's why she's reforming. It's a farce. This is not the people's party,” one supporter said. “We are going to defect. We are not going to...

Clinton Supporter Harriet Christian goes off on Democrats at Rules Committee meeting. Operation Chaos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KACQuZVAE3s

Do You Hear The Cracking? The 30 person committee that rendered their decision today was made up of 8 Obama supporters and 7 DNC representatives hand picked by Dean; allowing Dean & Obama to garnish a majority vote without Dean actually having to cast a vote. The members of this committee had their minds made up when they announce the meeting, not after today’s public hearings. The Clinton campaign naturally cannot be happy about this result, but more importantly the majority female support that Clinton enjoyed just took one more step away from Obama. Mike Kaszuba of the Minneapolis Star...

Pure Moonbat Entertainment!!!

How much anger is there among women about how Hillary Clinton has been treated during this campaign? Some of the nation's leading female politicians will tell you: quite a lot. "From the beginning, she's been treated very badly," says Therese Murray, the president of the Massachusetts Senate. "No woman would have run with Obama's resume. She wouldn't have been considered." But Clinton has been "demonized by the press and the talking heads. How do you get away with that?" Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., says she is regularly approached "by women of all races, of all ages, of all faiths....

Hell hath no fury like a feminist scorned.

"If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president. It's kind of a pipe dream, it's a personal fantasy of mine, but I don't think it's going to happen." —Ann Coulter, Oct. 2 New York Observer With Hillary Clinton still the leading Democrat in the race for president, a lot of news stories over the next year will discuss women voting patterns. Some women may well vote for Mrs. Clinton, even if they disagree with her policies, simply because she is a woman. Terms like "historic" will be thrown around a lot,...

Many women were driven to vote this week in Kentucky following fierce comments made by Sen. Hillary Clinton. "Some have said your votes didn't matter, that this campaign was over..." the New York senator said over and over on the campaign trail in Kentucky in the days before the primary there on Tuesday. If you talk to voters at her rallies, you will find women who resent what they view as Clinton being pushed out of the presidential race. A Clinton support group formed last week and has run full-page ads in newspapers stating, "Not so Fast." Many female Clinton...

Geraldine Ferraro, the only woman to run on a major party presidential ticket and a supporter of Hillary Clinton, has accused Barack Obama of conducting a "terribly sexist" campaign. Miss Ferraro, the losing Democratic candidate for vice-president in 1984, said that she might abandon her lifelong party loyalties and vote for the Republican John McCain if Mr Obama is confirmed as the nominee. "Should I ratify how the Obama campaign has been run by voting for him? I am going to have to think very hard about that," she said. Some other partisan female Clinton supporters have already insisted that...

Her defiant speeches are peppered with references to her gender. She told a crowd of some 3,000 - more than two thirds of them women - in Coral Gables, Florida, that America needed "a president who will roll up her sleeves and get to work for you" and a woman to "clean house" in Washington. Mrs Clinton's main remaining chance of beating her Democratic rival, Senator Barack Obama, lies in persuading the vast majority of about 200 undecided super-delegates - party officials - to reverse the elected delegate tally, which the Illinois senator has already won. Making an explicit pitch...

Female supporters of Hillary Clinton sprang to her defense Tuesday, insisting she speaks for all women and should stay in the Democratic primary race to the bitter end. "Not so fast," read a full page ad in The New York Times, amid calls for Clinton to bow out of the race to help unify the Democratic party after a gruelling race pitting the former first lady and New York senator against Illinois Senator Barack Obama. "Hillary's voice is OUR voice, and she's speaking for all of us," said the ad, purchased by a group not affiliated with the Clinton campaign...

<p>Might fully one-third of the six surviving Democratic vice presidential nominees end up opposing their party's national ticket this November?</p> <p>That possibility arose today based on comments Geraldine Ferraro, the 1984 Democratic veep candidate, made to The New York Times.</p>

With each passing day, it seems a little less likely that the next president of the United States will wear a skirt — or a cheerful, no-nonsense pantsuit. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is now in what most agree are the waning days of her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. To use her own phrase, she has been running “to break the highest and hardest glass ceiling” in American life, and now the presidency, or even a nomination that once seemed to be hers to claim, seems out of reach. Along with the usual post-mortems about strategy, message and money,...

As Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton faded from Democratic presidential favorite to runner-up, Lynn Z. Tulumello and countless other women from coast to coast looked on, aching with a disappointment far greater than the one that comes with losing. “I don’t want us to have this chance and for it to end with women looking at their daughters and saying, ‘If I had had a boy, he could have done anything,’ ” said Tulumello, a 47-year-old South Buffalo resident with two grown daughters. “I’m sure Hillary feels the same way.” No doubt about it: Many women feel the same way. As...

Philipina Heintzman, 81, drove 80 miles across the South Dakota prairie to experience history in the making: a woman running for president, something she never dreamed as a child that she would live to see. That event, a Hillary Rodham Clinton rally in Bath on Thursday, also marked history unraveling. As Clinton's prospects sink in the Democratic race, Heintzman and many women like her are feeling the poignant letdown of seeing the first woman with a strong chance at the presidency fall short. "It would hurt my feelings a lot because I think she should be No. 1, she should...

With the clock running down on a long-fought primary, NARAL Pro-Choice America leaders sent state affiliates reeling this week by endorsing Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois. It was seen as a gratuitous slap in the face to a longtime ally, and it sparked a fear even closer to home: that the move will alienate donors loyal to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York. Many on this week’s conference call were stunned on learning the news, making urgent pleas for the group to remain neutral until after the June 3 Democratic primaries. “It’s created a firestorm,” said NARAL Pro-Choice New...

I heard a female-type Democratic Party Activist on Sean Hannity's radio broadcast today excoriating the Democratic Party for the way they've treated Hillary. She said that if Hillary did not get the nomination, women in droves, who have been Dem loyalists for decades, will vote for McCain by the hundreds of thousands. There were two women on "The O'Reilly Factor" tonight equally as angry because Howard Dean and the Dem Party has snubbed them with their sexist attitudes toward Hillary and her supporters. They are ready to bolt and take thousands of women with them into the McCain Camp in...