The Hillary coalition: Why white women will play kingmaker in 2016

The Week ^ | April 13, 2015 | Marc Ambinder

[C19fan]

Whatever is the biggest gender gap in a POTUS election, PIAPS will blow that away in 2016.

[Gaffer]

Those young white elementary teachers who are the only ones that celebrate Kwanzaa now?

[Slyfox]

[Sacajaweau]

Hillary is going to be told to "bug off" by her own party. They want a pretty male candidate who can capture the women's vote. The Dem blarney is all the same no matter the candidate.

No one wants grandma for president.

[Texas Eagle]

Somebody ping Sarah Palin. The public is clamoring for a female candidate.

Am I right, The Week? Up high!

[KC_Conspirator]

This article must have been written by a Washingtonian liberal.

[oldbrowser]

"Everyday American"

Hilary is the antithesis of everyday Americans.

In every way.

[detective]

I don’t know any white women who like Hillary Clinton. Most women can’t stand her.

[Biggirl]

The reality is that when a man ages, he is called “distingrished”. When a woman ages, she is called “old”.

I sense that Hillary will be thrown under the bus again.

[Phillyred]

The democrats only get unmarried white women (unmarried everything for that matter). Married white women overwhelmingly voted republican in the last presidential election.

[SMARTY]

“...white women will play kingmaker in 2016”

Uh... I think that’s how we GOT into this jackpot!

[Right Brother]

I don’t know any white women who like Hillary Clinton. Most women can’t stand her.

Until they get into the voting booth. Estrogen is thicker than water.

[who knows what evil?]

The reality is that when a man ages, he is called “distinguished”. When a woman ages, she is called “old”.

I always hear that as 'older men are distinguished, older women are just beat'...there are exceptions (Sophia Loren, Raquel Welch), but Hillary! isn't one of them.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Hillary’s party is going to tell her to bug-off, but they will do so only because she is not authentically liberal enough for a party that has moved fifteen paces to the left since her husband was President.

[Paine in the Neck]

[realcleanguy]

Hah! The Clintons with their initiative fund that they use for their own pleasure make even the richest COE’s look poor! And she is trying to rebrand herself as one of the little people she so despises? Incredible. She just can’t stop lying

[Dilbert San Diego]

I don’t really know any liberal women. But of the more moderate to conservative women I know, none of them like Hillary. A few can’t stand her. I would be shocked if any such women vote for Hillary just to make the political statement about having a woman president.

[Dilbert San Diego]

This Clinton initiative fund could be a big issue in the coming campaign. If the media wants to dig into things, they could dig into who is giving all this money to the Clintons, and why they are doing so. What do they expect in return, etc.

Then there’s the whole issue of Democrat grumbling that the Clintons aren’t liberal enough for today’s Democrat party.

And, also that Hillary blocks other potential Democrats from running for president until 2024. You figure if Hillary wins election in 2016, then she runs for re-election in 2020, thus blocking any other Democrats till 2024.

It’s enough to make you wonder if Democrats really are planning to ambush Hillary this time around, or not work for her campaign in 2016, hoping she loses. If she loses, then 2020 becomes a wide open year for Democrat presidential hopefuls.

[relictele]

He’s spent the last 8 years doing cartwheels over the ‘whites will be a minority’ trope so you can imagine his dizziness when he finally stopped to write this piece which contradicts his own self.

[Rodamala]

My dear old mother is of the opinion that giving women the right to vote is a singular moment where the nation was put on a path to ruin.

Personally, I am inclined to agree, but I believe 17A and 16A were slightly more destructive than 19A.