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The XX Factor: Slate women blog about politics, etc...
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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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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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Have Obama and Richardson entered into an unholy vote-trading alliance ? In Eldora, Iowa, where I am reporting on tonight's caucus, precinct chair Ed Bear says that Richardson is his first choice and Obama his second, but not because anyone told him to Read More...
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With all this confusing chatter about Iowa polling numbers (seems like every poll says something different, except when you account for the margin of error, in which case they all say the same thing: "Who knows!"), I think it's worth pointing out that Read More...
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I have been in Iowa for all of two hours, and so far everyone I have talked to (newspaper vendor, rental-car agent, fellow traveler, minimart saleswoman) is planning to vote. Probably a fluke, but it makes me feel like I am in the Land of the Voter. The Read More...
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With all due respect to Slate 's cover pieces today, and Jodi Kantor's piece in the NYT , I am not moved by all the violin playing for poor disenfranchised Iowa voters. Yes, the caucus set-up stinks if you can't get out of working the evening shift or Read More...
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Via Talking Points Memo, some video of Hillary Clinton arguing this morning that caucusing is particularly hard for women—who see voting as something private and are uneasy standing up and talking about their candidate of choice. It sounds some familiar Read More...
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