The high heel vote: How women are winning the US election »
Posted By gamahuche 1 year, 2 months ago in Political NewsRachel Maddow, Samantha Bee and Tina Fey aren't household names in Britain, but they're at the vanguard of the feminisation of American politics. Sarah Hughes celebrates an election year in which women have finally moved centre stage – and asks: what next?
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gamahuche1 year, 2 months ago
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Some provocative talking-points from the end of the article:
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Girl talk: quotes from the campaign trail
"As NFL season picks up and their husbands are watching 'Monday Night Football', we thought it would be a good time to reach out to women"
McCain spokeswoman Crystal Benton, on Sarah Palin's nomination
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"There remains [the sense] from the McCain-Palin campaign, that if you ask [Palin] any hard questions, really on anything, it's because you are out to get her and it's because you don't think she'll know the answer... That's not a long-term strategy for marketing your vice-president"
Rachel Maddow
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"She may bring many qualities to the ticket... but a long wealth of experience probably isn't one of them – if you can be honest with me, you've got to concede that point, right? Can you concede that point and just be honest with me?"
CNN's Campbell Brown talking to McCain's political director, on what Sarah Palin brings to the electoral campaign
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"I don't think John McCain could run a major corporation"
Carly Fiorina, businesswoman and Republican economic adviser
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"My mother was born before women could vote. But in this election my daughter got to vote for her mother for president"
Hillary Clinton at the Denver Convention
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"You're caught between a rock and a hard place, because if you describe her accurately... there's no way you can do that and not sound condescending."
HBO's political commentator Bill Maher
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"Our leaders are sending [the military] out on a task that is from God"
Sarah Palin on the US mission in Iraq
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"I think there's a really good chance that Sarah Palin could be president; and I think that's a really scary thing. It's like a really bad Disney movie.
I need to know if she really thinks dinosaurs were here 4000 years ago – I want to know that, I really do. Because she's going to have the nuclear codes"
Actor Matt Damon last week
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"McCain found a genuine soulmate in Governor Palin"
Former House Speaker, Republican Newt Gingrich.
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"I believe global warming is caused by man"
Amy Poehler, as Hillary Clinton
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"...And I believe it's just God hugging us closer"
Tina Fey, as Sarah Palin 'Saturday Night Live' sketch
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"We have the opportunity to make change. Women's votes will make the difference in this race"
Michelle Obama, at a women's economic debate in Richmond, Virginia
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"I'll see you at the debates, bitches. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go and pick out a vice-president – I'm thinking Rihanna"
Paris Hilton's spoof presidential campaign ad, in response to John McCain -
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Candida1 year, 2 months ago
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Hobe: "This article is really a bunch of First Class BS...HoMosexuality is not the issue."
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Have you even read it? It's not about homosexuality, so you are right in that respect: homosexuality is not the issue. The article is not even about Rachel Maddow, so whether she represents non-homosexual women is irrelevant. She is a woman and she represents some women, whether heterosexual or homosexual. The article talks about her work, not about her sexuality.
The article is about women who are interested and involved in politics, and who are shaping, to some extent, this election. Are you saying that they aren't?
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Mdiar1 year, 2 months ago
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Very nice read gama, very much worth it. Thanks for posting it on Propeller. I'm happy to say Claire McCaskill is my Senator.
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Women have, off and on, had the right to vote in areas of the United States since the American Revolution. New Jersey, I believe, was the first state to allow women to vote, though when corruption hit the state... they used women as a scapegoat in the early 19th century and took it away!
This election season has helped women and African-Americans achieve a level of involvement in US politics not seen before. -
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chevydog1 year, 2 months ago
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A very interesting article. It would seem difficult to ignore that large a slice of the electorate. But there always has been the tendency, among both politicians and media, to treat women as a homogeneous voting bloc. Those who wear the label "feminist" in any way should be pleased if this election destroys that stereotype.
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