Posted on 11/06/2014 10:41:23 AM PST by C19fan
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. Her campaign meant a lot to me, and to so many other Texas women — thousands of whom stood in line for hours to cast their ballots in support. Greg Abbott won anyway, and he won by a lot. But he didn’t win by a lot across the demographic landscape.
I went to the Texas Tribune first for a dissection of the election results, and one piece of information struck me as particularly… wrong. 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?
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
/src on/Unfortunately you and other white Texas women suffer from false consciousness. You failed to realize the oppressive structures that keep you and all women in oppression and how Abbott is just a continuation of the oppression. Hispanic and African-American women suffering from racism, sexism, and class understand the true nature of oppressive societal relations and voted for the candidate most likely to free them, Davis. The white male power structure tricks you with non-issues like abortion, guns, religion, and family. You need to feel empathy with your darker skin sisters and join them in the revolution./src off/
LOL! Oh. Yeah. That.
Oh, boo-frekin’-hoo!
Get over it!
WE WON!....................
exactly. That is why it bothers me when FReepers blame third parties for losses, as if it should be illegal to vote for a small party
If aborted babies could vote...
No, the democRat party failed America!
Too funny!
Jewish women and abortion
Shiksa childbearing may he what keeps Jewish bloodlines going here in mixed marriages...pity
No one single demographic supports abortion more
Given the Holocaust.... I fail to grasp why embrace such self destruction and further the Nazi goals more or less
“her campaign meant a lot to me, and to so many other Texas women — thousands of whom stood in line for hours”
Davis ticked off many people who are not able to stand at all.
Or any refutation...
“Single women are simply voting for a surrogate husband in the gov’t.”
Only if they vote for dems
Well, yeah, that was the assumptive understanding.
Single women who vote for democrats are voting for a surrogate husband in the form of a gov’t that provides for and protects them.
She’s a DEMOCRAT ... The demonicrat party keeps its slaves in line.
Now thats funny.
Yes.
Men are worthless. White men in particular ... they should all be stuffed in gas chambers.
(It's what they're thinking ...)
>>exactly. That is why it bothers me when FReepers blame third parties for losses, as if it should be illegal to vote for a small party
Not illegal. But it is a childish waste of a vote in a close race (which almost all of them are these days). We do have a duty to our fellow citizens.
there is no duty to vote GOP, they do not own my vote
When your analysis of an electoral loss comes down to two explanations; we ran into the wrong candidate on the wrong platform and we did it poorly, or the electorate made a mistake and you go with the second explanation, you have made a serious error.
by the way this is the same writer who announced online she was having an abortion and then proceeded to document and write about it and used all that information to slam Texas increased abortion laws she is a real nut job good Lord
her only redemption is I think she was one of those women who showed their breasts on social media in support of the Israeli Defense Forces
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