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White women didn’t just fail Wendy Davis — they failed the rest of Texas, too
Salon ^ | November 6, 2014 | Jenny Kutner

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?

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2014elections; 2014midterms; abbott; abortionbarbie; andreagrimes; davis; femwit; femwits; gregabbott; jennykutner; liberalagenda; realwaronwomen; texas; tx2014; wendydavis; whitevote; women; womensvote
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To: TheMom
This white Texas woman didn’t vote for her because she was unqualified to be our governor and she is a flippin’ lunatic.

/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/

41 posted on 11/06/2014 10:57:48 AM PST by C19fan
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To: TheMom
This white Texas woman didn’t vote for her because she was unqualified to be our governor and she is a flippin’ lunatic.

LOL! Oh. Yeah. That.

42 posted on 11/06/2014 10:58:01 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: C19fan

Oh, boo-frekin’-hoo!
Get over it!

WE WON!....................


43 posted on 11/06/2014 10:58:59 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Bryanw92

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


44 posted on 11/06/2014 10:59:00 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: C19fan
No one should pay any attention to anything written in Solon. The people there are un-American wierdos.
45 posted on 11/06/2014 10:59:02 AM PST by Cindy of Nashville (What has the Democrat party become???)
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To: C19fan

If aborted babies could vote...


46 posted on 11/06/2014 10:59:09 AM PST by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: C19fan

No, the democRat party failed America!


47 posted on 11/06/2014 11:00:12 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: tx_eggman

Too funny!


48 posted on 11/06/2014 11:00:35 AM PST by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: C19fan

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


49 posted on 11/06/2014 11:01:17 AM PST by wardaddy (todays republicans are worse than reconstruction era.....and that takes effort)
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To: C19fan

“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.


50 posted on 11/06/2014 11:01:41 AM PST by ari-freedom (Obama is the biggest joke. But I can't laugh.)
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To: Mears

Or any refutation...


51 posted on 11/06/2014 11:02:53 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: MrB

“Single women are simply voting for a surrogate husband in the gov’t.”

Only if they vote for dems


52 posted on 11/06/2014 11:03:09 AM PST by ari-freedom (Obama is the biggest joke. But I can't laugh.)
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To: ari-freedom

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.


53 posted on 11/06/2014 11:04:05 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

She’s a DEMOCRAT ... The demonicrat party keeps its slaves in line.


54 posted on 11/06/2014 11:04:09 AM PST by NorthMountain
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To: LegendHasIt

Now thats funny.


55 posted on 11/06/2014 11:04:11 AM PST by Duckdog (If it wasn't for NASCAR my TV would have gone out the window years ago!)
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To: Cowboy Bob
What about the thousands of men who stood in line for hours to cast their ballots in support for Abbott. Are they unimportant simply because they are men?

Yes.

Men are worthless. White men in particular ... they should all be stuffed in gas chambers.

(It's what they're thinking ...)

56 posted on 11/06/2014 11:05:49 AM PST by NorthMountain
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To: GeronL

>>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.


57 posted on 11/06/2014 11:06:02 AM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Bryanw92

there is no duty to vote GOP, they do not own my vote


58 posted on 11/06/2014 11:09:39 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: C19fan

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.


59 posted on 11/06/2014 11:10:33 AM PST by muir_redwoods ("He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative." G.K .C)
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To: C19fan

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


60 posted on 11/06/2014 11:10:52 AM PST by wardaddy (todays republicans are worse than reconstruction era.....and that takes effort)
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