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The XX Factor: Slate women blog about politics, etc...
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During the vice-presidential debate, I had to keep tearing my gaze away from the CNN ticker with the reactions of undecided voters, which was tracking men separately from women. The sexual politics of politics—how could it not be riveting? Except that, Read More...
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Does it make any sense to say that as expected, Sarah Palin exceeded expectations? She didn't flail. She didn't lose her train of thought or all semblance of recognizable syntax. She powered through her answers, airy and bloated as some of them were. Read More...
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Dahlia , if Palin tanks tonight, then I think you're right. She won't cash in the victim card at the ballot box. But in the more likely event that she exceeds ever-falling expectations, then she gets the benefit both of Hanna 's deserving-of-sympathy Read More...
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Slate editors and XX Factor bloggers Emily Bazelon and Dahlia Lithwick will be chatting on Washingtonpost.com this afternoon at 3:30 ET. They will be outlining what Joe Biden and Sarah Palin each need to do to succeed in tonight's vice-presidential debate. Read More...
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A small point about the debate last Friday: Obama called McCain "John" routinely in the first part of the debate, switching to "Senator McCain" only after McCain pointedly refused to return the favor by saying "Barack," ever. In debators' terms, it was Read More...
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So I thought McCain did slightly "better" in the debate than Obama. Like Dahlia , I thought Obama came across as wonky — he had trouble shifting from long, rather academic-sounding answers to short and punchy. I though McCain seemed folksy and confident Read More...
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OK, I think I heard John McCain say, in his debate with Obama, that a) he was going to be voting for the $700 billion recovery plan (" Sure ." Well, really, who knew?), and b) that if elected president, he would cope with the resulting budget squeeze Read More...
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Now this is interesting; I see where a focus group of Republican women has declared Mike Huckabee the winner of last night's debate. These undecided, right-leaning women thought Mitt Romney came off as phony, arrogant and "a snake''—and one woman who Read More...
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Back when that book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten came out, I thought about how everything I needed to know I learned in my 92 years of dating. And as it turns out, those lessons hold up pretty well in political life, too, in that Read More...
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I guess not. But I had the same question as you did, Meghan , regarding to what extent Hillary Clinton's camp had actually played the gender card. The best I could figure was that the press release ended by calling Sen. Clinton "One strong woman," and Read More...
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I missed out on some of the analysis of the Clinton campaign's "pile on" video last week. Now that I've caught up, t here is something I don't understand about all the fuss over Hillary supposedly playing the gender card/"victim card." As far as I can Read More...
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