[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Geraldine Ferraro, like Palin, was asked "gender specific" questions such as whether, being a woman, she was tough enough to deal with other world leaders.

The Mondale/Ferraro ticket lost to Reagan/Bush in a historic landslide of course.

So, in the eyes of women who supported both Ferraro and Clinton, who both "deserved" to win, how can they both be discarded by the voters while they embrace Palin?

[padre35]

Good read, we really haven’t plummed the whole of the Palin Effect yet, Newsweak being a M(essiah)NBC organ, one does have to inject caution into their writings.

[paudio]

One survey shows that the selection of Palin brought in women as well as men. Her middle-class background with a union-member husband, both sport-lovers, and as parents they have to deal with limited resources resonance well because many voters consider the Palins as one of them, not simply ‘representing’ them.

[lonestar67]

The analysis gets weaker and weaker as you read it.

For example, the author says Palin has not faced significant media scrutiny— wow!

She also cites studies saying Republicans will not support working mothers according to a 2007 survey. I cannot find the study cited.

[sageb1]

“So, in the eyes of women who supported both Ferraro and Clinton, who both “deserved” to win, how can they both be discarded by the voters while they embrace Palin?”

Because Palin went from suffrage to VP candidate without the feminists.