Free Political Talking Points: The Writers On Strike Edition
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-11-19 12:11:40
It’s terrible — I’ve just not had the time to talk on a quality edition of your Free Political Talking Points. I know you’re all broken up about it. There there… don’t cry. You know I don’t like to see you cry. It’ll be okay. We’ll get through the holidays and then we can get back to the news of giving you tidbits on politics and policy on a regular basis. I promise. Come on. I’ll buy you an ice cream.
— Barack Obama: “ whether it’s deployed by candidates in our party in the other party or by any third party. The cause of change in this country will not be deterred or sidetracked by the old ‘Swift boat’ politics. The cause of moving America forward demands that we defeat it.â€
— Howard Wolfson spokesman for Hillary Clinton’s campaign: Um what? I have no idea what you’re talking about (Someone get me Novak on the phone…).
— CIA Agent-outer and Old Crank Robert Novak: The nature of the quote-unquote eye-roll “alleged” scandal was not disclosed. But don’t you wish it was?
— on a given night—an increase of 0.8 percent from 194,254 in 2005. More veterans experience homelessness over the course of the year. An estimated 336,627 were homeless in 2006. That’s 336,627 people we should be thanking — not kicking to the curb.
— for these people who need them. It is a progressive value to value men and women who served in uniform and now are the least among us. Let’s give them a hand up…
— “.” This is a quote from a veteran and it’s heartbreaking for it’s simple truth.
— We haven’t even finished this ill-conceived Iraq War or the apparently never-ending War on Terror and this administration instead of thanking the veterans is going to literally. Most certainly
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>“…Joe Biden is now the third best bet for the nomination. I’m hearing a lot of buzz about him from people who pay attention.â€- Chris Matthews. MSNBC (12/10/07)
Matthews is crazy. At best. Biden is the sixth-best bet for the nomination. Last week. I might’ve put him ahead of Dodd but Dodd pulled ahead with the filibuster move.
Log On Ladies. Register To Vote. Chat with Women Across The USA about what matters to you and Upload Your Questions For The Candidates. Women face disparities in all walks of life if we want change we must come together for change. Let us work together to let the candidates know our voices will be heard in the 2008 Elections.
A new sought-after voting bloc is emerging in American politics: People like me — unmarried women voters.
Pollsters have recently discovered that this country has more than 53 million unmarried women of voting age. That’s more than a quarter of the electorate encompassing more potential voters than many of the usual highly sought after groups including seniors racial minorities and union members.
“(U)nmarried women may play the same role for Democrats in 2008 that white evangelicals played for George Bush and the Republicans in 2004,†said a study by Greenberg. Quinlan. Rosner Research. More than 20 million unmarried women did not vote in 2004. Capture their votes and take the oath of office or so goes the theory.
But let’s slow down before putting on these women’s foreheads a label that couldn’t possibly capture the wide range among unmarried women voters. A young woman just out of high school a career woman new to her profession a divorced 40-something a widow in her 80s — all could fit.
Some headline writers and pundits were quick to label this group the “Sex and the City†voters. Nice TV show but the “Sex and the City†girls curiously never seem to work yet are able to splurge on shopping daily and eating out nightly in New York City — and never seem to gain an ounce of weight. Not reality.
The “single anxious female†is how a senior strategist for Hillary Clinton’s campaign terms unmarried women noting their angst about money. She is right on; two incomes often do make life easier.
Money or strains about it is the taboo subject between many a married woman and her unmarried girlfriend. Mrs. Married often will complain about bills the mortgage car trouble and so forth and her unmarried friend will nod and grit her teeth knowing she is burdened with the same things but with the resources of only one salary.
But don’t point this out too explicitly candidates. Women to their detriment do not like to admit money woes. So a candidate who speaks to single women as distress cases is likely to chase away their votes not court them. Convince a single woman that you could possibly do something about her financial situation and you might get a vote but you’d have to break down some of society’s myths about marriage along the way.
The institution of marriage has changed significantly over the past 30 years. A majority of women are now unmarried. Most people. 90 percent marry at some point in their lives but they are spending more of their lives single. And they live longer — especially women who are more likely to outlive spouses and wind up in the unmarried category as widows. And yes people cohabitate often forming lifelong bonds minus the religious or civil ceremony.
Yet laws and policies often presume that marriage is the default condition in life. And that can make life more difficult for the single. Imagine the allure of a candidate who would candidly speak to tax disparities among married and single people or to the situation of singles who don’t have the option of health-care coverage through a spouse or to the way education in America is structured around the assumption of two-parent families with one available at home.
Most women of voting age were raised with a few pixie dust-laden ideas that a magical kiss would produce Prince Charming complete with a nice house and a bulging 401K. But we unmarried women are much less likely to view marriage as a solution to our problems — especially as we have watched our married counterparts (or possibly ourselves) sink financially after a divorce.
Unmarried women experts say are far more likely to believe they need a network of support systems — family friends employers private agencies and yes government — for their worlds to run efficiently. Hillary Clinton got this part right when she touted the African proverb. “It takes a village.…â€
The Greenberg study found that 78 percent of unmarried women believe the country is on the wrong track. That is a lot of skepticism for candidates to mine. The study also suggests that unmarried women in a departure from the past are now more interested in voting than married women.
As anyone can attest who has ever watched a bargain-seeking woman plow through a sale rack women will go to great lengths if they know the effort will bring value to their lives. Candidates who convince women their platforms are worth the effort just might earn a valuable token of an unmarried woman’s love: her vote.
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