{"id":505,"date":"2008-01-08T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=505"},"modified":"2008-01-08T11:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T16:47:00","slug":"young-women-for-hillary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/01\/08\/young-women-for-hillary\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Women for Hillary"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Back in September, I posted<\/a> on those Gallup polls that found younger women supporting Hillary in greater numbers than older women. Remember those polls? Dana Goldstein at The American Prospect<\/a> did a nice report on younger women’s Hillary enthusiasm a while ago too. In Iowa, things went the other way. Whether this trend play out nationally remains to be seen. But folks are already talking that way. Writes Gloria Steinem in today’s NYTimes op-ed<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“What worries me is that some women, perhaps especially younger ones, hope to deny or escape the sexual caste system; thus Iowa women over 50 and 60, who disproportionately supported Senator Clinton, proved once again that women are the one group that grows more radical with age.”
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That older women are more radical argument–I just don’t want to believe it! And today, this young(ish) woman is coming out with an announcement: I’m supporting Hillary. I join Veronica–see comments in post below. Yesterday’s “iron my shirt” assholes<\/a> being one–but just one–of the things that pushed me over the edge. (Addendum: And if you think those hecklers were isolates, see comments, below.)<\/p>\n

Gloria is supporting Hillary too. Says she:<\/p>\n

“I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m supporting Senator Clinton because like Senator Obama she has community organizing experience, but she also has more years in the Senate, an unprecedented eight years of on-the-job training in the White House, no masculinity to prove, the potential to tap a huge reservoir of this country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s talent by her example, and now even the courage to break the no-tears rule. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not opposing Mr. Obama; if he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the nominee, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll volunteer. Indeed, if you look at votes during their two-year overlap in the Senate, they were the same more than 90 percent of the time. Besides, to clean up the mess left by President Bush, we may need two terms of President Clinton and two of President Obama.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s to two terms for Hillary, two for Obama. And hell, if Edwards is man enough to take back his real-politicians-don’t-cry comment, two for him then too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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