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Obama Stays on Friendly Turf in the Final Push to November
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyBetween mouthfuls of Top Pot Donuts in Seattle, shouts of "Woof! Woof!" to cheer on the Washington State Huskies, and signing autographs for young admirers in Palo Alto, President Obama has been working the crowds as hard as any time since the harried-but-halcyon campaign days of 2008. In the final push before this year's midterm elections, Obama is on an extended road trip, hitting seven states in the last 10 days before Nov. 2. Rallying capacity crowds is nothing new for the president, but what's most notable about this jag of fundraisers and speeches is that they're all happening on ...
Female Voters, We Need You
By Christine Bronstein - Politics DailyI admit it. I have a terrible voting record. My dad is Republican-leaning and I am a Democrat, so assuming we would cancel each other out, we have lazily ignored most elections. This year, with the midterms approaching, I finally understand that my vote will make a difference. I have been trying to keep up on all the debates involving women's issues and women candidates (harder than it sounds with three kids and a start-up business). Recently I heard Stephanie Schriock, president of EMILY's List, speak to a small group at the Fourth Annual San Francisco Women's Policy Summit. The title of ...
British Austerity Budget Discriminates Against Women, Lawsuit Claims
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyBudget cuts are never popular politically. But can they be illegal? Last week, a prominent women's rights organization mounted a legal challenge against the British government on the grounds that its budget discriminates against women. The case was brought forward by The Fawcett Society, a non-profit organization in the U.K. devoted to establishing equality between the sexes. The group is arguing that Treasury officials in the new coalition government broke the law by failing to conduct an assessment of how the current austerity budget would affect women. According to a 2007 law passed by ...
NJ, Va. Governors' Races Focus on Women Voters
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyOne group to which the campaigns in both New Jersey and Virginia have paid close attention are woman voters and their success or failure in courting them has shaped the dynamics of each contest, The Politico reports. In Virginia, Democrat Creigh Deeds had thought he hit gold by pounding Republican Bob McDonnell about a thesis he had written in graduate school saying homosexuals and working women were anti-family. But in the long run, it hasn;t work and Deeds actually trails McDonnell among women by one point, the Politico says. In New Jersey, where Gov. Jon Corzine leads Republican Christie ...
Women to GOP: Just Not That Into You
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyThe message from women to the Republican Party in a new Gallup poll: They're just not that into you. ...
Sarah Palin Goes For the FEM/PUMA vote
By Dave - Politics DailyWell, this is new. CBS - From The Road"And if I'm given the honor of serving you in the White House, I intend to advance that creed in our own nation and beyond because across the world, there are still places where women are subjugated and persecuted as they were in Afghanistan, places we're they're bullied and brutalized and murdered in honor killings, places where women are sold like commodities in the nightmare world of the sex trade, and places where baby girls are unwelcome as a matter of state policy and their mothers are forced to have abortions," Palin said."Now no one person, no one ...
Palin Favorability Fading?
By Dave - Politics DailyFiveThirtyEight.com:The Research 2000 poll for Daily Kos now has Palin's favorability-unfavorability scores at 45-44 -- just a +1. Six days ago, when the poll, launched, she was at a 52-35, a +17.And I know that some of you don't like or don't trust this poll -- for reasons that I think are a little silly -- but there is a similar decline in her numbers in the Diageo/Hotline poll. Her favorability numbers in yesterday's Hotline poll -- today's isn't out yet -- were a 48-36, or a +12. But a week ago, on September 8, she had been at a 48-24, a +24.Interesting and something that I could easily ...
Palin Pick Will Likely Increase Clinton's Role
By Jay Allbritton - Politics DailyToday McCain adviser Carly Fiorina appealed to Clinton supporters on behalf of Sarah Palin, saying, "Because of Hillary Clinton's historic run for the Presidency and the treatment she received, American women are more highly tuned than ever to recognize and decry sexism in all its forms. They will not tolerate sexist treatment of Governor Palin." But advisers of Senator Hillary Clinton indicated that she is angry that Palin and the McCain campaign are attempting to misrepresent a movement that she and her supporters worked so hard to build during the campaign. Clinton insiders told Patrick ...
UPDATE- New Agenda: Stop Calling Palin a MILF
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThe freshly-minted women's group "The New Agenda" has come out swinging against sexist attacks on Sarah Palin. From a press release: "We cannot and will not sit idly by while another qualified candidate goes through what Senator Hillary Clinton had to endure. Issues are fair game. Sexist treatment is no longer fair game," said Amy Siskind, a co-founder of The New Agenda. ..."Our members were outraged that within 24 hours of Governor Palin's historic candidacy she was dismissed as "tokenism," she was referred to as a "MILF" (mother I'd like to f*uck), and chuckling male commentators said:" The ...
Obama Making Gains With Some Women
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyGallup shows that Barack Obama's expected bump in the polls since Hillary Clinton dropped out comes mostly from women. In a seven point jump, Obama now leads John McCain by 13 points (51 to 38 percent) among female voters. The Times suggests that while many Democratic women would have preferred Hillary, they're now realizing that when it comes to certain women's issues, Obama's views are closer to theirs than McCain's:As the poll came out, a group of women who supported Mrs. Clinton held a conference call to begin a campaign to "sound the alarm" about Mr. McCain's record on women's issues as ...
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