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AP-Ipsos National Poll: Hillary Ahead by 7 | 58 comments (58 topical)

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And if Hillary is the nominee (5.00 / 3) (#9)
by cpa1 on Mon May 05, 2008 at 09:25:23 PM EST
she will get Republican women crossing over. I don't believe Obama would get them.

Jeralyn is right, when push comes to shove women will think with their heads.  Hopefully, PUSH will come soon enough.

I also feel that women will be practical and maybe thinking with a longer perspective, understanding that you save someone between $30 and $70 in gas and that will feel to them like $100 or $200.  It will give them "consumer confidence" and when that happens, that multiplier effect we all learned about in economics starts churning away.  

Of course, it will not help those who are into "conspicuous consumables" as Thorstein Veblen named the "keep up with the Joneses" purchases, so it is not resonating with them.  

I think you are right (5.00 / 3) (#16)
by Kathy on Mon May 05, 2008 at 09:48:15 PM EST
about republican women.  Some are already crossing over.  But, think about this: if our so-called progressive brothers at Kos and HuffPo, et al, can seemingly overnight turn into misogynistic, woman-hating freaks, imagine what some of these republican women's husbands will be like.

They'll be like my granny, is what.  "Oh, yes, dear, democrats are ruining America!" then, she gets into the booth, pulls the drape, and votes straight dem.

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What makes you think. . . (5.00 / 1) (#18)
by LarryInNYC on Mon May 05, 2008 at 09:50:39 PM EST
if our so-called progressive brothers at Kos and HuffPo, et al, can seemingly overnight turn into misogynistic, woman-hating freaks,

this was an overnight transition?

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seemingly! (5.00 / 1) (#19)
by Kathy on Mon May 05, 2008 at 09:53:51 PM EST


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Yes, the "women's studies set" (5.00 / 5) (#28)
by Cream City on Mon May 05, 2008 at 10:38:10 PM EST
won't forget the Blog That Shall Be Unnamed's infamous brouhaha about bakery, as it were.

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You (5.00 / 1) (#53)
by Ga6thDem on Tue May 06, 2008 at 05:32:52 AM EST
know what? It really wasn't overnight. It was there all the time. I can't speak for others but for myself I just think that I didn't want to see it. Remember the pie fight? I thought that people like MSOC were over the top. Well, I guess in hindsight they were right.

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i said at dinner tonight this just might (5.00 / 2) (#32)
by hellothere on Mon May 05, 2008 at 10:53:25 PM EST
start another women't movement. it doesn't have to be the same of course. maybe more to do with equal pay for equal work, etc.

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45 years since the Equal Pay Act (5.00 / 2) (#34)
by Cream City on Mon May 05, 2008 at 11:18:53 PM EST
of 1963 -- I have a photo of JFK signing it, just before his assassination -- and thanks to the great ER, her national commission on the status of women, and even more her great coworker for decades even before the New Deal, Esther Peterson.

Now it's so gutted by the Supremes that it's meaningless.  But the Dems as a group wouldn't give it the real push it needed in Congress last week, so the Repubs got to kill the bill to restore it.

Bless Barbara Mikulsky for her fighting spirit on this -- and every Dem in Congress needs to be asked about it.  We have so much more yet to win for our daughters' daughters, we don't have time to keep going back and redoing what our foremothers won.

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the young women take all that has been (none / 0) (#61)
by hellothere on Tue May 06, 2008 at 06:24:03 PM EST
achieved for granted. i hope for their sakes that they don't contiue to lose. it is not a pretty picture. when i went into the business world it had never crossed my mind that i was less than. i was shocked at the men's attitudes. i was one of the first to achieve a certain level in my field. some of the guys helped and for that i am grateful.

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AP-Ipsos National Poll: Hillary Ahead by 7 | 58 comments (58 topical)

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