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"Democratic women, feminists rally at Democratic National Convention"

Mastodon - Sat, 2012-09-08 17:39

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'Emily’s List president Stephanie Schriock says that in 2008 about 10 million more women than men voted in the historic presidential election the propelled Barack Obama into the White House.

Now Schriok and the group that promotes Democratic women candidates across the county hopes that the women’s vote will help Obama win another term.

“We’re going to make sure that happens again,” Schriock told me while at a reception at the Democratic National Convention given by the National Women’s Political Caucus. “It’s going to be great. We can do it.”

The reception, at an uptown bar in Charlotte, featured fiery speeches by veterans of the feminist movement. They claimed that Republicans were waging a war against women and reproductive rights and would fail.

Republicans dismissed this notion and contend their conservative, pro jobs agenda is better for all Americans, including women.

Democrats disagree.'