I was looking at the women’s vote in the 2008 election. And came across this:
Women’s votes were a significant factor in Senator Barack Obama’s victory, with a sizable gender gap evident in the election results….Women strongly preferred Obama to Senator John McCain (56 percent for Obama, 43 percent for McCain), unlike men, who split their votes about evenly for the two presidential candidates (49 percent for Obama, 48 percent for McCain).
The Republicans have their work cut out for them.
Take my own mate. I was telling her before the election that Obama would be a communist disaster. She voted for Obama anyway. When I asked her why, she said she didn’t like Palin. Not because of Palin’s policy positions. Nope. She didn’t like the way Palin talked. Ugh.
BTW the mate now agrees with me that Obama is a disaster. And we voted in Illinois which went solidly for Obama. So two canceled votes. Not important. What is important is the attitude.
Sometimes I despair that we ever gave women the vote. Just kidding honey. Well, maybe not. (I’m in the dog house now – if she reads this).
Cross Posted at Power and Control
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10 responses to “The Women’s Vote”
Isn’t it interesting that she voted against Palin and not McCain? She’s not the only one, it’s a general trend that looks back at 2008 as Obama vs. Palin, which just seems so odd to me.
Giving women the vote has had demonstrably negative effects on our politics and our nation. Even the women that rise above petty concerns of looks, style, status, urban vs rural, etc. are still far too influenced by emotional responses to problems.
Of course, there are plenty of smart, sharp women who understand what’s really behind the motives and minstrelsy of the Left, but far too many are easily duped.
The only cars I see on the road with Obama stickers tend to be driven by middle-aged or older women.
I’m a woman who went through college physics classes in the late 1970’s/early 1980’s (BS Physics/MS Astronomy) and I was pretty much the only female there. I’ve worked as a civilian for the Navy for the past 20+ years in a highly technical job. I currently have a 60 year old female Task Team Lead, who doesn’t have a degree, and am now having great problems with her. EVERYTHING is personal and dealt with emotionally by her. She cries all the time at work! It is downright embarrassing. She has been heard to say she’ll never hire in another woman. I think I’m rather rational in my outlook (INTJ) so she drives me crazy and certainly makes women look bad in my eyes. Unfortunately I guess there are a lot out there like her. Women can be rational. Is it our culture that pushes some to make emotional decisions vs rational ones?
BTW… I saw through BO and held my nose and voted for McCain. I really liked Palin. Here was an independent woman who in every way epitomized what I thought the feminist movement was about. I was shocked at the vitriol spewed at her from the left.
Simon, either you have a great marriage or a death wish. Good luck.
Will,
I have to beg her to read the blog (Jewish foreplay was good training) so maybe if a week or two goes by she won’t notice.
Kidding aside she knows my views on the matter.
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Karen,
I’m a Naval Nuke (no longer on active service). It tickles me to hear of your work. Have you ever heard of the Navy’s Polywell Fusion project? I’m rather involved with the community so if you need to get up to speed contact me. My e-mail is on the sidebar at:
Power and Control
As a straight libertarian male disappointed at the scarcity of libertarian women, I have often joked about women being “the Socialist Sex.” This has often offended women–although interestingly enough, the offended ones are almost always collectivists of one persuasion of the other.
Prohibition, anyone?
Volunteer to take out the trash. Women will forgive almost anything if you voluntarily take out the trash. 🙂
Only 40% of women are moonbat voters, the soap opera fans.
But the other 60%, who vote like men, will see the importance of denying women the right to vote.
The result will be the same as they’d prefer anyway, and it’s too big a bloc of crazy people.
Also it would cut the link between soap opera news and politicians. There’s no longer any point appealing to those women.