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Post by wildoats on Feb 3, 2016 15:04:35 GMT 7
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Post by wildoats on Feb 3, 2016 15:06:59 GMT 7
Chief National Correspondent for the New York Times Magazine, Mark Leibovich, provides his analysis on the Iowa caucuses and the success of anti-establishment candidates. Here |
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Post by wildoats on Feb 3, 2016 18:59:25 GMT 7
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Post by cmk on Feb 10, 2016 18:59:16 GMT 7
After today Trump is the only Republican running and Clinton is in a tie with Sanders.
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Post by wildoats on Feb 10, 2016 19:34:13 GMT 7
Interesting how the Female vote for the Democratic pre-selection is being analyised. Photo: Is Bernie Sanders really winning over more millennial women than Hillary Clinton? (Reuters: Lucy Nicholson) That so many young, female voters appear to be supporting Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton reflects the fact that women are being drawn to policy as much as gender in this US presidential race, writes Lucia Osborne-Crowley. In recent weeks the world has been fixated on the tightening race for the Democratic presidential nomination between former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and Vermont senator Bernie Sanders. As the all-important New Hampshire primary results roll in and Sanders claims victory, election deliberations have gravitated towards the question of why he - and not Clinton - is performing so well among young, progressive female voters. Balance of the Article
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Post by cmk on Feb 10, 2016 19:51:20 GMT 7
Interesting how the Female vote for the Democratic pre-selection is being analyised.Photo: Is Bernie Sanders really winning over more millennial women than Hillary Clinton? (Reuters: Lucy Nicholson) That so many young, female voters appear to be supporting Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton reflects the fact that women are being drawn to policy as much as gender in this US presidential race, writes Lucia Osborne-Crowley. In recent weeks the world has been fixated on the tightening race for the Democratic presidential nomination between former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and Vermont senator Bernie Sanders. As the all-important New Hampshire primary results roll in and Sanders claims victory, election deliberations have gravitated towards the question of why he - and not Clinton - is performing so well among young, progressive female voters. Balance of the Article How many young progressive women are there in the USA. 12 that I know of. I couldn't find any stats on the INTERNET. Old women vote in large percentages. Young don't vote in large percentages. Unless this changes or Obama succeeds in registering all the illegal immigrant vote I don't think it's an improtant number. Outside of the East coast the young female Jewish vote is not very substantial. I see Hillary picking up the Muslim women vote because they are used to men like Bill. |
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Post by wildoats on Feb 10, 2016 20:04:56 GMT 7
Following on from the above comment ... one factor that is ever prevalent in US Elections is the desire to vote. as cmk alludes to above.
In many Western countries, voting is compulsory, but the US is one exception.
I wonder just how committed the female vote is to either (democratic) candidate when it's actually time to 'haul your ass' down to the polling booth?
Just sort of curious.
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Post by cmk on Feb 10, 2016 21:03:35 GMT 7
Following on from the above comment ... one factor that is ever prevalent in US Elections is the desire to vote. as cmk alludes to above. In many Western countries, voting is compulsory, but the US is one exception. I wonder just how committed the female vote is to either (democratic) candidate when it's actually time to 'haul your ass' down to the polling booth? Just sort of curious. Voting. 63.7% Percent of female citizens 18 and older reported voting in the 2012 presidential election. By comparison, 59.7 percent of their male counterparts reported voting. For more than 60 years after women’s suffrage the female population turned out less often than men. This was true from 1920 to 1980. However, after 1980 a reversal occurred and a gender gap in voting between men and women has been evident ever since. The range is from a low of 4 points in 1988, to a high of 10 percentage points in 1996. At 41.9 percent, the 2014 turnout rate was 3.6 percentage points lower than in 2010 and 5.9 percentage points lower than 2006. Whites 45.8% Blacks 40.6% Hispanics 27% See what Trump is doing? By age 60 - 60% 18 to 34 - 23% The only Americans as a group who really give a sh** about who gets elected to what are old white ladies. www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2015/demo/p20-577.pdf |
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Post by cmk on Feb 10, 2016 22:06:25 GMT 7
The 81-year-old feminist Gloria Steinem charged that young women are only backing Sanders because that’s where they can meet boys. And 78-year-old Madeleine Albright threatened to consign to a “special place in hell” women who don’t back female candidates like Clinton. In 2013, for example, Sanders made all of $1,500, which he donated to charity as required by federal law. In 2014, he raked in $1,850 for paid speeches. By contrast, Clinton made, and kept, over $21 million during the same time period. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign is falling apart. Now she’s called in the B Team — the cynical, paranoid and wacky twins Sidney Blumenthal and David Brock — to bail her out. And here comes the elderly, diminished and livid former President Bill Clinton to lead the duo’s frantic attacks on Sanders thehill.com/opinion/dick-morris/268831-dick-morris-clinton-deploys-b-team |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2016 1:09:23 GMT 7
The 81-year-old feminist Gloria Steinem charged that young women are only backing Sanders because that’s where they can meet boys. And 78-year-old Madeleine Albright threatened to consign to a “special place in hell” women who don’t back female candidates like Clinton. In 2013, for example, Sanders made all of $1,500, which he donated to charity as required by federal law. In 2014, he raked in $1,850 for paid speeches. By contrast, Clinton made, and kept, over $21 million during the same time period. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign is falling apart. Now she’s called in the B Team — the cynical, paranoid and wacky twins Sidney Blumenthal and David Brock — to bail her out. And here comes the elderly, diminished and livid former President Bill Clinton to lead the duo’s frantic attacks on Sanders thehill.com/opinion/dick-morris/268831-dick-morris-clinton-deploys-b-team"Voters looked at her and ran screaming." Yes. |
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Post by cmk on Feb 11, 2016 6:19:35 GMT 7
The 81-year-old feminist Gloria Steinem charged that young women are only backing Sanders because that’s where they can meet boys. And 78-year-old Madeleine Albright threatened to consign to a “special place in hell” women who don’t back female candidates like Clinton. In 2013, for example, Sanders made all of $1,500, which he donated to charity as required by federal law. In 2014, he raked in $1,850 for paid speeches. By contrast, Clinton made, and kept, over $21 million during the same time period. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign is falling apart. Now she’s called in the B Team — the cynical, paranoid and wacky twins Sidney Blumenthal and David Brock — to bail her out. And here comes the elderly, diminished and livid former President Bill Clinton to lead the duo’s frantic attacks on Sanders thehill.com/opinion/dick-morris/268831-dick-morris-clinton-deploys-b-team"Voters looked at her and ran screaming." Yes. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2016 16:47:11 GMT 7
^^ You know, to me it's a monumental failure by the Democrats that they couldn't muster a "viable," candidate to run against Clinton. I know Sanders is doing well at the moment, but he's a guy that shouldn't even be at the races.
A major political error is upon them.
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