“There are some that are out there that don’t understand the importance of why young women have to support Hillary Clinton”, Albright said as she stood next to Hillary Clinton inside the gymnasium of Rundlett Middle School.
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With the next nominating contests in Nevada and South Carolina, Clinton will seek to lift her standing among women.
KEILAR: So this is really, I think, what we’re keeping an eye on here after tonight in New Hampshire compared to Iowa, do you see even more of a break between young women who seem to be gravitating towards Bernie Sanders and towards, you know, older women who are much more dependable supporters of Hillary Clinton.
Mrs. Clinton laughed, slowly clapped her hands and took a large sip of her beverage. In trying to convince young women to vote for Hillary Clinton, they’ve instead incited a backlash. The story is not over! “I believe in that symbolic importance”, she said.
“What I had just said on the same show was the opposite: young women are active, mad as hell about what’s happening to them, graduating in debt, but averaging a million dollars less over their lifetimes to pay it back”, she continued. In being so – we will be polite – “flexible”, she never sets down roots, constructs an overall approach to big problems or to use of American power.
“It’s not done and you have to help”. It’s understandable, as a Hillary Clinton presidency isn’t almost the nightmare scenario that a Sarah Palin vice-presidency would be. You, the women of America, owe it to Hillary to make sure she wins. The boys are with Bernie, ‘ ” she said.
The younger generations are dismayed.
They said what they’ve heard about Sanders from fellow students makes them worry he’d lose a general election.
Steinem was a crucial figure in the feminist movement of the ’70s.
On the stump, the 24-year-old took a shot at feminist icon Gloria Steinem who said recently that women supporting Sanders were only attending his events to meet “boys”.
While Sanders’ victory means he’s assured of a majority of New Hampshire’s pledged delegates, Clinton remains ahead in the overall delegate count due to support from superdelegates – the party officials who can support the candidate of their choice.
But they are certainly not flocking to Sanders because they want a date. “But I also think there’s legitimate criticism of her policy positions, and also that her message is out of tune with where young people are this year”. “There are a lot of technical things that show a person’s record that just haven’t come out yet and I think later on there is room for that”.
And Clinton, regardless of her work in gender equity, represents the “systems of the past”.
“They’re going to get more activist as they get older”, Steinem said, implying that a vote for Sanders is not an activist vote.
“The Clintons are not happy, and have been letting all of us know that”, one Democratic Party official told Politico.
I have spent most of my adult life feeling grateful to Gloria Steinem, whose clear-headedness and apt prose helped turn me into the feminist I am today.
It was precisely these conditions out of which Albright, Steinem, and to an extent, Clinton, emerged in solidarity. “I find the young women very, very activist, and they’re way, way more feminist than we were”.
Much bestirring followed on social media.
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My mom and I may not have agreed on what constitutes a feminist or a strong woman, we had differences in our political leanings and tastes.
