women's vote gives Clinton PA win

[niyad]

Women's Vote Gives Clinton Pennsylvania Win


By Allison Stevens
Washington Bureau Chief



WASHINGTON (WOMENSENEWS)--Women helped Sen. Hillary Clinton knock out another must-win victory Tuesday night in Pennsylvania's presidential primary, giving her enough political--if not financial--fuel to keep her campaign running through the remaining nine Democratic contests through June 3.

Clinton was beating Sen. Barack Obama 55 percent to 45 percent with 94 percent of the vote counted, according to CNN.

"We all knew Pennsylvania was either going to be the semi-finals or the finals of the game," said Gloria Feldt, former president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America in New York and a vocal Clinton supporter. "So the game goes on."

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"White women voted for Hillary Clinton and they voted for her by a pretty solid margin," said CNN political analyst Bill Schneider.

Women went to the polls in much higher numbers than men, according to CNN exit polls. Nearly 60 percent of the electorate was female, 41 percent male.

Women flocked to Clinton out of a desire to support a female presidential candidate and because they responded to her populist economic message, according Ellie Smeal, a prominent Clinton supporter and president of the Feminist Majority Foundation in Arlington, Va.
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A female backlash against gender bias in the media also drove women to Clinton, Smeal said. "The women are so angry over the treatment of Clinton and are feeling it has been just abysmal and that it has been so sexist."

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http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/3571

[JimGinPA]

1. A Large Percentage Of Them Have VCR's That Flash 12:00 Too

[Zuiderelle]

4. That certainly is an assholish thing to say.

[niyad]

6. that is the sort of thing said by someone who simply doesn't want to hear that there

are actually people who like, AND VOTE, for Sen. Clinton, despite all the hateful, ugly, vitriolic, venemous things said about her.

[Phillycat]

12. Oh, aren't you clever!

Make sure you keep those little ladies in their place!

[Cali_Democrat]

2. When women support Hillary its "natural" and accepted, especially by the media

When blacks "bloc vote" for Obama it's racial division. I see a double standard at work here.

[redqueen]

10. Funny how that works, isn't it?

x(

[NashVegas]

18. Riiiiiiiiiiighhhhht

Except for those places and times where women who vote for Hillary are scorned for "voting with their vaginas" and black people who vote for Obama are scorned for .... oh, wait. They aren't.

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[PBS Poll-435]

5. Thank you PA ladies!

[newmajority]

7. Well, at least they got it half right.

Women flocked to Clinton out of a desire to support a female presidential candidate and because they responded to her populist economic message, according Ellie Smeal, a prominent Clinton supporter and president of the Feminist Majority Foundation in Arlington, Va.

At least Hillary isn't lying about being female.

But an economic populist??

Yeah, and I'm the easter bunny. :eyes:

[livetohike]

17. Ellie Smeal is from Pgh originally and

former president of N.O.W. (years ago).

[godai]

8. Apparently 41% of the females voting in PA weren't bitter.

They voted against Hillary, for Obama.

[NC_Nurse]

9. "A female backlash against gender bias in the media" ...

These people are about 6 months behind in this primary. It's been bash Barack 24/7 for the last 6 weeks at least!

[Phillycat]

11. I am proud to be one of those women.

She is an inspiring candidate and I enjoyed voting for her yesterday! :bounce:

[SeaLyons]

13. I am proud of you for being one of those women....

Go Hillary!!!!

:hug:

[Zuiderelle]

15. Yay! I wish I lived in PA so that I could have added my vote.

:thumbsup:

[livetohike]

14. Not this white, middle-aged, middle class woman

I got over the "poor me" syndrome decades ago.

[Raffi Ella]

16. YAY