Posted on 09/20/2007 7:17:05 AM PDT by HoosierGirl25
Fact: 54% of voters in the 2004 election were women and that’s good news for Hillary Clinton (D-NY). According to various news reports, Clinton employs six full-time staffers specifically for women’s outreach -- more than any other candidate -- to reel in the female vote.
For now, Clinton leads Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) in the Democratic race by a 42-23% (according to the latest RCP poll) margin and will likely take the nomination for 2008. She knows how critical that female vote is, which is why she participated in a Women in Public Policy (WIPP) event yesterday. Clinton used the opportunity to tout her freshly unveiled healthcare agenda.
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That was so good, I had to repeat it!
Virtually all the women in my family hunt, including my two nieces (19 & 21 years old) who hunt and skeet shoot regularly. Those that don't hunt are married to hunters. No Hillary voters around here - matter of fact, none of the women I know can stand the sight of her.
Habit is the death of a thinking man.
I know a lot of women who feel that way, but I also know some who think Hillary is the greatest thing ever born and they're dying for her to be president. Then again, I live in LA.
You crack me up. We all know men vote the “right way”. /s
My two sisters, my mother, my mother-in-law, my siste-in-laws, my neice, my daughter-in-law all VOTE and none of us will vote for a DIM or Hillary!!!! However, I do have a few girl- friends who are stupid enough to go with what MSN tells them and they might vote for Hillary! My husband, dad, uncles, sons, brother-in-laws, boss, father-in-law, pastor, neighbor will not vote for Hillary under any circumstance. So out of all the people I love and know, the R’s have it with my group.
Sadly, too many women's day care providers and public screwl teachers and PWed hubbies take care of those things now. So this won't register.
“I like the competency test as well. It’s about awareness, not gender.”
Agreed. If you have to take a test to drive, why not a test to vote?
Stereotypes are as old as human culture itself. They reflect ideas that groups of people hold about others who are different from them. But most stereotypes tend to make us feel superior in some way to the person or group being stereotyped. Stereotypes ignore the uniqueness of individuals by painting all members of a group with the same brush. It’s faster and easier to use a stereotype to characterize a person or situation, than it is to provide a more complex explanation.
As I said, stereotypes work for those who don’t like to think. You see, you gave a more complex explanation, unlike the original poster who made a broad-brush, one sentence statement.
Your example about Muslims is wrong - that’s not stereotyping, that’s profiling.
That notion is, of course, ludicrous.
I guess all women were at home, barefoot and cooking, until the men told them they could vote, LOL!
Thanks for the edumaction, I feel smarter already.
Sure- read your history. Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Party were all pre-suffrage.
But go ahead if it makes you feel better by placing blame on women. We all know no man would support a socialist. /s
Oh wait ... the biggest mass murderers of the 20th Century were men ... can we blame that on suffrage too ?
“Prejudice is the honor common sense pays to experience.”
Well said. The danger is when prejudice becomes so firmly rooted that additional experience can’t dislodge it. As long as one has an open mind, prejudice is simply a survival skill.
Nice. I’m objecting to several posters’ claims that it was only after all women got suffrage that politicians turned left-wing, and now you want to change the discussion to “left wing bitches” only ?
Oh, and BTW, some states allowed women to vote long before the 19th was passed.
“All the women I know really dislike Hillary.”
Count me in that group!
Have you ever heard of an “educated moron” ? I believe there’s a surfeit of them clogging up the halls of academia.
Personally, I think only those people who are willing AND able to unclog a toilet should be allowed to vote.
See my post #49.
“Your example about Muslims is wrong - that’s not stereotyping, that’s profiling.”
And you play semantics just like a good liberal? Stereotyping is a survival skill. If I eat a green berry, and get sick, I will avoid green berries. Even if some green berries are the best around, until I can reliably differentiate, I avoid all green berries.
If I’m walking down the street at 2 AM, I avoid young black men with do-rags and droopy drawers. It’s possible that if I were in trouble, those same black youths I avoid could save my life. However, it’s more likely that young men matching that description would cause me trouble. A stereotype is a belief about something, or someone based on prior experience, that you apply to the whole of that group. Profiling is matching an individual to your stereotype criteria.
You are being intellectually dishonest.
You first said all was fine until women got the vote. Now you say it was all women’s fault BEFORE they got the vote ?
Nothing like consistency ...
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