Early on, Secretary Clinton was invited to discuss former Secretary of State Madeline Albright’s remark at a recent Clinton event. After New Hampshire, there’s a new wrinkle: Why are young women abandoning her? Any woman who’s ever been in office could tell them that. Arnesen was part of that vanguard.
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Hillary Clinton may not be the candidate they choose for all kinds of reasons.
“I don’t blame people for feeling defensive of (Clinton), and I agree that a lot of the criticism of her is sexist”, she said. Do I betray my gender and my identity because I am able to think freely enough to make this decision?
First there was Iowa, now New Hampshire.
I am not here to sway your vote from Clinton to Sanders, or vice versa.
“Not everybody views voting as a statement of their identities”, Democratic pollster Anna Greenberg said. However, two feminist icons, Madeleine Albright and Gloria Steinem have recently made statements implying that my position is both a betrayal of my gender and my identification as a feminist.
If you want to lose young women, just scold them. Charmed by Hillary in their exclusive dinners and private chitchats, they encouraged her presidential ambitions.
There will be a woman president, and she might even be Hillary Clinton.
In her decade-long quest to be that first woman, Hillary Clinton may be a victim of timing. I think so. I think she is too pro-Israel.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is introduced by former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright at a “Get Out the Vote” campaign rally in Concord, N.H.
“There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other”, she said.
Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images Gloria Steinem sparked controversy when she said that young women would vote for Sanders because “the boys are with Bernie” on the Bill Maher show. Steinem has since apologized. Even those who say they might end up voting for Clinton.
Sanders has denounced and distanced himself from the online misogyny of a group who have come to be known as “Bernie bros”. “I am not asking people to support me because I’m a woman”, but “because I think I’m the most qualified, experienced, and ready person to be the president and commander-in-chief”. And we all want to see that. Bernard Sanders of Vermont over Mrs. Clinton is because “men tend to get more conservative because they gain power as they age, and women get more radical because they lose power as they age”.
Rebecca Traister wrote in Salon at the time: “According to the media script, these cool young customers have embodied their elders” worst nightmare of a generation that takes feminism’s victories for granted by throwing over Hillary Clinton for her challenger faster than you can say “I’ve got a crush on Obama'”. Sanders won the votes of 7 out of every 10 women under the age of 45, and almost 80 percent of women under the age of 30.
And what about the fact she is a woman.
One explanation of that disparity may be found in the contrasting histories of the two states. Above all, we as women should not denigrate each other lightly. “What kind of a revolution would it be to have the first woman president of the United States?” We don’t attempt to hold national conferences at which we decide which issues to prioritize and which candidates to support. We have to drop them. “We’ve seen some produce and some disappoint”.
Finally-and this isn’t about Berniebros-he needs a dose of kindness and humility toward his opponent, and her supporters.
“Unbelieveable – I mean that is really like old-line sexism, right?” Finally, former president Clinton railed against the Berniebros and cited me by name, referencing the piece I wrote about the abuse I’ve taken from some of Sanders’ ugliest male supporters.
An analysis of Washington Post/ABC News polls over the past couple of months gives a broad sense of how the dynamic could shift.
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Exit polls in New Hampshire showed Clinton – the only woman still vying for the White House – receiving 44 percent of the female vote, compared to 55 percent for Sanders. She enjoyed a large but significantly smaller margin – 52 percent to 36 percent – among white women.
