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

[Mags]

1. and women stick together and never forget . Thanks for the article.

[sushi]

2. Excellent!

We are the strong sex!!!

[gaspee]

3. I never thought I'd be a Clinton supporter

I voted for her in my primary.

I was an Edwards supporter and will not support Obama because of his stance on my civil liberties (as a lesbian.)

I became a Clinton supporter by default and have been driven FIRMLY into her camp because of her treatment in the press and by the Obama supporters on this board. The anti-woman sentiment has outright depressed me. I knew the attitudes were still out there, but to get hit with them every time I turn on the TV or come to DU (which I've mostly quit. This is my first time here in weeks) has really driven it home for me.

And I know I'm going to be razzed on for supposedly letting other people make my choice for me, but what's a dyke supposed to do, huh?

Support the guy who clearly hates me (and I met him in person at a small fundraiser in 2006 before he decided he was running and the man has a problem with dykes. Sorry all you Obama believers) or support a woman who has a proven history of taking the shit the right wing noise machine flings at her and keeps moving on.

The Clintons aren't perfect. I'm so far to the left of them that if we had more parties, I wouldn't be in the same party they are.

The problem is, IMO, Obama is no further left of them and I do not trust him. At all.

So, a Clinton supporter by default. I know Obama's going to get the nomination and I hate it. I won't vote for him. I'm going to write in someone. Probably Barbara Boxer, Al Gore, or Jimmy Carter. All presidents I can live with.