Not everyone honeymoons in Bangor, Maine, but I was born there and on the way, we stopped at Kennebunkport. It was as though she didn’t realize that they – we – are the same.
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One Clinton campaign official in MA went as far as suggesting on Tuesday that Albright stay away from the campaign trail because she risked alienating young women voters.
Indeed, the first location Clinton cited in her remarks was Flint, Michigan, which she visited Sunday while Bernie Sanders (and the entirety of the Republican field) remained in New Hampshire for last-minute campaigning.
Consider these numbers. Women accounted for 57 percent of Democratic caucus-goers in Iowa, where they provided Clinton’s millimeter-thin margin of victory. Give them time, and they might just do her in. That is precisely the type of big-money influence Sanders is running against – with success.
If you thought the way the Democrats count the votes in Iowa is messed up, that’s nothing compared to the way they wrangle their delegates.
“We always have another chance to have another woman president, but do we have another chance to have someone as genuine as Bernie Sanders is?” asked Nicole McGillicuddy, 26, a server at a Concord restaurant, who believes there will a female president in her lifetime. “More people will then have to think about him, so it might well do the trick”.
However oddly stated, this was clearly meant in support but even so, where does one start?
The Sanders campaign responded, “Senator Elizabeth Warren can certainly name at least one thing”, in a February 5 email to reporters.
Also in the past week, another women’s rights icon made a comment while stumping for Hillary Clinton, Madeline Albright.
Young women contributed significantly to Clinton’s loss, and the candidate acknowledged that she struggled with young voters.
But it issued a statement on the matter via KUTV that wrote, “In response to the Sanders campaign mailing featuring AARP and the Association’s Take A Stand campaign, AARP does not endorse candidates, have a political action committee (PAC), or make contributions to political campaigns or candidates”. With friends like that… “Bernie Sanders has exceeded expectations all along the way”.
Sanders swept majorities of men, women, independents and young people in his win over Hillary Clinton, but faces challenges in the more diverse states to come next on the primary calendar. “The people want real change”. Clinton is more than just a woman. Being related to two Presidents doesn’t hurt the guest list, but being connected has hurt Bush in a year voters prefer disconnected rebels.
LA Times columnist, Meghan Daum, in her pro-Clinton op-ed, belittles the idea of intersectionality to a hashtag and deems it too complicated to understand. But could she still win?
Looking back at last week’s Democratic presidential debate, it’s not hard to see why Clinton’s camp is frustrated.
“It’s good to have new friends but I would prefer to have true friends”, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) told reporters on a conference call with reporters convened to tout Clinton’s record with the black community”.
Plenty of people like Albright, Steinem and Bill Clinton.
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A friend sitting nearby, Alyssa Rittweger, said Clinton was the type of politician that young people are fed up with. Feminism naturally attaches itself to Clinton’s campaign because she’s a woman, but it’s not like Sanders is anti-woman.
