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'Binders,' cooking and equal pay: Did Romney undo gains with women voters?
CNN ^ | By Halimah Abdullah, CNN

Posted on 10/17/2012 11:21:43 PM PDT by Arthurio

Washington (CNN) -- Before Tuesday night's debate, polls showed Mitt Romney had gained ground with women voters.

But his comments about using "whole binders full of women" as a hiring aid while governor, whiffing on an equal pay law question, and alluding to helping women get home to cook dinner has landed the GOP presidential hopeful in verbal quicksand with some female voters.

He'll have to do some serious repair to regain traction, political experts say.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


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To: Arthurio
Let me get this straight. The liberals are angry because Romney hired more women than any other governor in America!?!

That's reason enough in and of itself to never listen to a word a liberal says.

21 posted on 10/17/2012 11:54:41 PM PDT by TigersEye (dishonorabledisclosure.com - OPSEC (give them support))
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To: Arthurio
But his comments about using "whole binders full of women" as a hiring aid while governor, whiffing on an equal pay law question, and alluding to helping women get home to cook dinner has landed the GOP presidential hopeful in verbal quicksand with some female voters. He'll have to do some serious repair to regain traction, political experts say.

Let me guess. The female voters are Abdullah and her lesbian lover, while the political experts are her fellow hacks at CNN.

22 posted on 10/17/2012 11:56:25 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Lazamataz

>> LOL, yet another manufactured ‘gaffe’.

Exactly. Anything estrogenic would have served for the propaganda.


23 posted on 10/17/2012 11:58:30 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: donna
I wish they would have asked Lis why she found the comment offensive instead they just yelled. At least make the woman give an explanation because once she hears herself she can conclude that she was wrong on her assumption br /> of it being an offensive comment. I find Obama offensive and he should not have been at the Presidential debate because he is such a loser.
24 posted on 10/18/2012 12:03:56 AM PDT by funfan
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To: Arthurio

I think I need to stay away from all political news for a week.

I have a bad feeling that the scumbags in the MSM are going to be successful in creating a “bounce” in the polls for the Kenyan over the next few days. They will once again gleefully declare the race over and it will be disgusting to watch.

They won’t be able to maintain it though. When I check back in next week, things should be much improved.

In the meantime, I am going to be working my tail off for Romney and my local Congressmen who faces a tough but very winnable race.


25 posted on 10/18/2012 12:05:36 AM PDT by comebacknewt (Newt (sigh) what could have been . . .)
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To: donna
Lis was offended

Put some ice on it, honey!

26 posted on 10/18/2012 12:06:54 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Arthurio

The Alinsky PC agenda doesn’t seem to be working anymore. It’s all so niggardly.


27 posted on 10/18/2012 12:09:19 AM PDT by ryderann
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To: Arthurio

hogwash. cnn is seriously reaching on this one.


28 posted on 10/18/2012 12:15:53 AM PDT by blueplum
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To: comebacknewt

Seems like they’re reaching pretty hard if this is all they’ve got


29 posted on 10/18/2012 12:18:21 AM PDT by Arthurio
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To: Arthurio

I don’t believe a word of this.


30 posted on 10/18/2012 12:32:16 AM PDT by marron
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To: Arthurio

Funny, ain’t it, how CNN doesn’t thing Obama made a gaffe by saying high gas prices are good and low gas prices are bad?

Screw you, CNN.

The next election cycle, Republicans ought to avoid these biased bastards.


31 posted on 10/18/2012 1:09:07 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Arthurio

everybody but assholes know what the binders are.....media trying to make something out of nothing


32 posted on 10/18/2012 1:35:46 AM PDT by The Wizard (Madam President is my President now and in the future)
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
This is 'Big Bird, the Sequel'


33 posted on 10/18/2012 2:18:18 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: Arthurio
"Political experts" from CNN?

Well then, it must be true!

(extreme sarcasm)

34 posted on 10/18/2012 2:30:07 AM PDT by airborne (MY HEROES DON'T WEAR CAPES. MY HEROES WEAR DOG TAGS ! ! !)
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To: Arthurio

How ironic.. a muslim named “abdullah” counseling about relating to women.

Back to whatever diseased hellhole you came from, knuckledragger.


35 posted on 10/18/2012 2:34:52 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Record high turnout is our hope for sending 0bama home. Pray hard!!!)
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To: Arthurio

I’m offended that the media and the TWITS of this country are so focused on the way he said it, and not on what he said.

He set up a panel to find and recruit talented women for top-level jobs.

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THAT?

Isn’t that what they’ve been bitchin about and begging for all these years?


36 posted on 10/18/2012 2:36:25 AM PDT by djf (Political Science: Conservatives = govern-ment. Liberals = givin-me-it.)
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To: djf

“WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THAT?”

As a guy I can’t begin to explain it; at least Bush spoke out against affirmative action. Romney seems to be proud of his role in it.


37 posted on 10/18/2012 2:50:24 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2

I think he should be proud, and it doesn’t, in my book, amount to affirmative action.

Were you listening to his preparatory remarks? He said he looked at the lists of names brought to him when he was setting up his administration and they were ALL male.

So he said “Go out and find me some talented women”, presumably to get some balance.

Doesn’t sound to me like numbers or race or sexual preference or anything else was the criteria.

Affirmative action MUST be defined in such a way that a lower-qualified applicant gets preferences over another applicant based SOLELY on race or sex or whatever other criteria...


38 posted on 10/18/2012 3:04:22 AM PDT by djf (Political Science: Conservatives = govern-ment. Liberals = givin-me-it.)
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To: Salamander
Here comes CANDY BOO BOO CHILD!


39 posted on 10/18/2012 3:44:59 AM PDT by Lazamataz (CNN's Candy Boo Boo Child hosed the 10/16 debate. What an Obama-licker!)
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To: Lazamataz

When the fall of our civilization is chronicled, it’s not going to be government... it’s not going to be the American work force...

It’s gonna be cell phones, Twitter, and Honey Boo Boo!!

(Don’t worry Laz, you’ll get a footnote!!)


40 posted on 10/18/2012 4:23:04 AM PDT by djf (Political Science: Conservatives = govern-ment. Liberals = givin-me-it.)
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