Sen. Clinton Openly Plays 'Gender Card'

Women may be a majority of the population (small surprise since they outlive men on average by several years), but was there actually a majority of women voters in the last national election? Does anyone keep stats on the gender percentages of registered voters? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

Even if she wins the primary, please vote for the Republican in the final election. He will be balanced by Democratic congress. We simply cannot have both sides of congress and the president all in agreement, when the president is a woman.

-axo

In The Myth of Male Power, Farrell gives the following statistic: In the 1992 presidential election, 54% of the voters were female, 46% male (p.238; source given in endnotes p. 406). According to Farrell, this means that in that year, women's votes outnumbered men's by more than 7 million. It seems like I also read where Farrell said that 51% of registered voters are women, but I cannot find it.

The book came out in 1993.

This is just an aside, but Hilary Clinton is a TOTAL FUCK-UP. And not just because she is a woman. (I am not affiliated with any party, but I would not vote for her under any circumstances).

-axo

If Hitlary pulls it off it will be because bubble headed whackjobs, with no clue about the real issues, will vote her into office in spike of the fact that Hitlary is a Marxist and opportunist.

Their rush to break the "political ceiling" will surely blind their judgement!

This YouTube video says it all!

Hail Chick

axolotl and I disagree and agree now and again...

But I am 100% in opposition to voting for Hitlary.

Obama would be the lesser evil, if you have to go that faux-progressive route.

McCain is a joke, but not worse than a feminist as president.

Edwards combs his hair too much on air.

The lesser Rep/Dem candidates are also preferable to Hillary or Obama.

Well, we just have to put up with another bread and circus version of democracy, right?

This is close to what you're looking for, though I haven't been able to find the exact item:

For six decades after women obtained the right to vote in 1920, they voted at lower rates than men. However, in the 1980 election women caught up with men, and according to U.S. Census data, in every subsequent election women have voted at an increasingly higher rate than men. In the 2000 elections, 56.2% of women reported voting, compared with 53.1% of men. Because women are a larger proportion of the population and vote at higher rates [I think this is because older people vote at higher rates and there are more older women than men], about 7.8 million more women than men voted in the 2000 elections, and at least that many more women than men are likely to vote in 2004.

Source: http://www.apsanet.org/content_5270.cfm

Karen M. Kaufman (University of Maryland, College Park) notes that the gender gap in 2004 stood at a 12-year low, leading to claims that 9/11 and Iraq have caused "uncharacteristic unity between the genders." The data, she states, suggest otherwise: on Bush, Iraq, and security, "consistent male-female differences emerge." Moreover, mothers with children at home were no more likely to vote for Bush in 2004 (49%) than in 2000 (50%), debunking the widespread "security mom" theory. The more important story of the 2004 election, according to Kaufman, was a regional one where "Southern White women moved to the Republican Party ... in much higher proportions than in the recent past." The presidential gender gap in the South was 11% in 2000 and only 5% in 2004 [7% is the average starting in 1980] -- the lowest in 40 years. Kaufman traces the findings to variations in candidate trait evaluations by Southern women, including whether a candidate "cares about people like me"; is a "strong leader"; and "is moral."

Source: http://www.apsanet.org/content_32035.cfm

If Hillary ends up as the candidate...if we move one step closer to establishing a monarchy in the U.S. (Bush, Clinton, Clinton, Bush, Bush, Clinton)...then the Democrats will lose. It's not so much that people would come out to support the Republican candidate but rather that she would light a fire under the Republican base and that they would all come out to vote against her along with independents and anyone else who despises Hillary.

I'm hoping the Democrats go with Obama merely because he seems intelligent and I'm sure that he must have a high IQ. Imagine that...intelligence in the White House for once.

Excerpts:

"Remember that women are 52 percent of our population, 54 percent of the registered vote, and usually between 55 percent and 56 percent of actual turnout."

"Nineteen million single women voted in 2000 and 27 million came out in 2004. If a woman runs for president, it stands to reason that such turnout will rise still further."

Unfortunately, the same jackasses wrote:

"In our male-dominated political world, where pundits speak mainly to one another and confirm each other's wisdom, we do not fully appreciate the power of a woman candidate. Single moms, disproportionately in poverty, burdened by the need for good daycare and schools, often rotting in minimum-wage jobs, are natural fodder for a woman Democrat who can identify with their plight and focus on their needs."

They don't cite any sources for that assinine claim either, so beware. In fact the authors are such losers, they do not even know how to speak English - note how the word "fodder" is misused above.

Link

-ax

You know, when I started my adult life, I already knew deep-down that most women are screwed up, as any man knows. Then after feminism had been around for about 15 years, I agreed yes, women really were "oppressed" etc. Then over the next 10 years, I "progressed" in stages until I was almost an honorary woman.
Then a couple years ago, I found out about mens rights issues, and started getting really angry at the discrimination and bias against men. Every time I read a book by Farrell I would seethe with anger.
But over the last few weeks it seems, it's like my mind has been "cleared" or something..I don't get mad anymore; it's like some massive realization has come over me, that this whole womens rights/womens clinics/womens issues/womens schools etc. is just INCREDIBLE BULLSHIT. It has been one huge myth foisted upon society. If I see ONE MORE man-bashing commercial, like those ones by Geico, I am going to puke and then throw the TV out the window.
If I hear about one more FUCKING "womens's issue", women this, women that, my brain is going to implode. Do any of you guys know what I mean?

-ax

The entire scene here on earth has become surreal. No one can tell me the whole damned world hasn't gone luney over the past 30 years. And yes, the constant "women's issues" crap can drive a man totally nuts. It has come to the point where when I see a headline with "Women..." I scan right to the next thing. I think this is a very common phenoenon in fact. I am willing to bet that such stories are getting read by the avg. reader (of both sexes) very little. It's just that editor-activists and PC-police keep allowing these sexist kinds of stories into the press.

BTW, it's Progressive Insurance with the male-bashing ads. Geico has the talking gekko and the cavemen. >)

As this thing progresses maybe Hilary will have to address some of her past remarks such as the infamous:

Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.

(Hilary Clinton, First Ladies' Conference on Domestic Violence in San Salvador, El Salvador on Nov. 17, 1998)

And - How will she address the military issue?

The past 2 presidents have (practically speaking) avoided military service and have been hammered pretty hard for it. While Hilary didn't actively evade the draft (she belongs to a class of people that aren't faced with such things) I know of nothing that stopped her from voluntarily serving. And since she wants to be the commander of our military it's a very relevant issue.

There are a few factors that pollsters have suggested will complicate Hillary's assumed "lock" on the female vote:

1) A significant number of women think she should have divorced her husband not just because of Monica, but because he's a well-known adulterer. Hillary looks like a doorstop and a spineless victim by this view.

2) Republican women will not vote for her, period.

3) A lot of younger women are post-feminists... well beyond Hillary's second-gen strident rad-feminism.

I've read that 17% of American voters polled state that they would never vote for Hillary under any circumstances.

Given the tiny margins in tight contests created by so-called "swing voters" in recent U.S. elections --- how can she win?

And, of the faithful Dem base, there is a small but significant population of lib-MRA's who will not cast a vote for a feminist.

I just don't see Hillary's stats adding up to the nomination, let alone a victory.

Though I'd love to hear her concession speech....

I've read that 17% of American voters polled state that they would never vote for Hillary under any circumstances.

I think that number is quite low. I heard a number on the would-never-vote-for-Hilary more like 40%.

I think the Democrats' intelligensia is trying to find a way to ease her out of the running. With baggage like hers they can do better without her. If 40% won't vote for her they have to believe that, of the other 60%, few will be influenced by endless loops of the vast-right-wing-conspiracy speech, travelgate, and cattle futures jackpots should she get the nomination.

Then again, never underestimate a Clinton running for office.

....'baggage' does not effect women in the same way as it does men.

As each issue comes up on the campaign trail, Hillary will simply reach into her women's excuse bag and pull out something - relevant or otherwise - that will count as a justifiable reason why she did or said whatever she's accused of doing or saying. Or she can just blame everything on sexism - the whole 'people are harder on me because of my vagina' argument that women invariably pull out when they do or say something incomprehensibly stupid and are faced with 1/100 the scrutiny the average male's words and actions are subject to.

Should be interesting to see how it all plays out anyway.