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To: paudio
RE “The outreach to women — which came on the same day that the White House released a report that said Mr. Obama’s policies, including the health care and economic stimulus bills, have helped women over all — is part of a fevered push to cement a Democratic firewall that White House officials are hoping will stem losses in November.... In states like Wisconsin and Florida, campaign commercials featuring women and issues like education, children’s health, stem cell research or abortion rights have emerged. Emily’s List, the group that raises money for female Democratic candidates who support abortion rights, has begun conducting phone banks aimed at these possible “drop off” women voters in California, New Hampshire and Washington, and creating election commercials related to issues like a cervical cancer vaccine placed, for instance, on Hulu before “Glee” — in hopes of reaching younger, single women, a heavily Democratic-leaning group. “We know what happened in 1994 when women stayed home — 16 million women who had voted two years earlier didn’t vote,” said Jess McIntosh, a spokeswoman for Emily’s List. “And we are doing all we can to be sure that does not happen in 2010.

Looks like he wrote off the white male. Yet there are white males that continue to support him.

16 posted on 10/22/2010 5:27:31 AM PDT by sickoflibs ("It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the federal spending=tax delayed")
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19 posted on 10/22/2010 5:29:27 AM PDT by sickoflibs ("It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the federal spending=tax delayed")
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Democrats Try to Revive Female Voters’ Enthusiasm

The dems couldn't excite me if...well...never mind. I am, however, very much trying to become enthused about the ostensible "R" candidate for governor in Michigan.

It's just not happening.

23 posted on 10/22/2010 6:06:38 AM PDT by MaggieCarta (What are we here for but to provide sport for our neighbors, and to laugh at them in our turn?Austen)
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