Friday, January 04, 2008 - Posts
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Thought I should jump in on Emily Y. , Dahlia , and Emily B. 's discussion on young women voting for Obama over Hillary since, well, I'm a young woman who plans to vote for Obama over Hillary. The truth is, the symbolism of Hillary's gender and Obama's Read More...
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All I can say is, the women in my book are looking smarter by the minute. Though the favored narrative -- that it's women voters who make President Hillary a slam-dunk inevitability -- is still so entrenched that it wasn't so easy to locate the news that Read More...
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Dahlia , regarding your response to Emily B's question about why younger women aren't more excited about Hillary. Couldn't the same point be made about black achievement? That is, younger people have grown up in a world where it's no big deal that the Read More...
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That’s a great question, Emily . You’d kind of expect it to be the opposite: older women grown weary of the Clinton baggage, and younger women less inclined to see her as back to the future. I wonder whether young women can’t get that excited about Clinton Read More...
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Women came out in Iowa last night-for Obama. He won with them overall, and among younger women with a wide margin. Hillary Clinton carried only the older-women crowd. That was reflected at the caucus I went to, especially in a mother-daughter pair who Read More...
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So, the big GOP winner in Iowa was Mike Huckabee. Not surprising, considering the polls, but that hasn't stopped the hysteria. Andrew Sullivan last night seemed almost giddy that he'd forseen the surrender of the GOP to the Christianist right , and in Read More...
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