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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: BannedFromDU on November 11, 2014, 01:55:36 PM
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Star Member Triana (19,810 posts)
White women didn’t just fail Wendy Davis — they failed the rest of Texas, too
I am well aware that Wendy Davis lost the Texas governor’s race by a wide margin. It’s salt in a very personal wound. Her campaign meant a lot to me, and to so many other Texas women — thousands of whom stood in line for hours to cast their ballots in support. Greg Abbott won anyway, and he won by a lot. But he didn’t win by a lot across the demographic landscape.
I went to the Texas Tribune first for a dissection of the election results, and one piece of information struck me as particularly… wrong. The Tribune cited CNN exit polls to illustrate the landslide, saying Abbott “beat Davis by lopsided margins with white voters (72-27), men (65-34) and women (52-47). Davis beat Abbott among Latinos (57-42) and African-Americans (93-7).†Last time I checked, though, there were thousands upon thousands of women in Texas considered Latina and African-American — what about their votes?
As RH Reality Check’s Andrea Grimes reports, their votes were solidly in Davis’ favor: 94 percent of black women and 61 percent of Latinas voted for her. Only 32 percent of white women did. That’s certainly not enough women to say that Abbott won the whole gender (though that’s a ludicrous statement in the first place). It seems to be enough, though, to result in the erasure of votes from women of color, Grimes notes:
You’ll hear that Greg Abbott “carried†women voters in Texas. Anyone who says that is also saying this: that Black women and Latinas are not “women,†and that carrying white women is enough to make the blanket statement that Abbott carried all women. That women generally failed to vote for Wendy Davis. As if women of color are some separate entity, some mysterious other, some bizarre demographic of not-women...
THE REST: http://www.salon.com/2014/11/06/white_women_didnt_just_fail_wendy_davis_they_failed_the_rest_of_texas_too/
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025799926
Laura PourMeADrink (16,724 posts)
4. Excellent article - thanks ! I am in that 32%. What I have noticed
since I moved here is that NO ONE, EVER...talks politics. NO ONE. So, most of these results are based on party line voting, IMHO. And, NO ONE I have met seems to give a shit about the masses one iota. They hate "Obamacare" (say the word like they would say Hitler). They hate "freeloaders" - welfare, unemployment, etc. And, last year - I actually walked out and left a family (in-law) Thanksgiving weekend - after listening to two of my masters level educated health care professional SIL's complain about ACA.
Whatever, you sorry c***.
For what it's worth, as a native Texan who knows a lot of cracka-ass women, I don't think many of them sit around all day thinking about the things Wendy Davis requires that they think about. There was a sense that Abortion Barbie and liberals hold this single medical procedure and the female anatomy associated with it as a sort of totem, the sine qua non of womanhood and a woman's existence. This was the key assumption liberals made as they miscalculated the "War on Women," that men obsess over controlling the privates of women and women do nothing but suffer under that yoke.
In reality, men are more likely to obsess over seeing and feeling the privates of women, and women are more likely to want them to. Abortion Barbie and her curt coterie of skanky angry harpies couldn't understand that then, and they sure as hell don't understand it now, and this article is proof. When your model for a good man is Charles Clymer or Chris Hayes, and your model for evil man is anyone else, you're going to be wrong about what people want and why they want it.
In simpler terms: white women don't want what that emotionally disturbed assface woman was selling.
Oh, and Sandra Fluke lost, too.
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Star Member Triana (19,810 posts)
White women didn’t just fail Wendy Davis — they failed the rest of Texas, too
Silly twat. "White women" don't owe Wendy Davis anything, particularly their votes, so they didn't "fail" her. They didn't buy what she was selling, and decided that Texas would be better off without her.
White women in Texas, like each voter in every election, voted for their own self-interests. For most of them, Wendy Davis didn't represent their self-interests, so she didn't get their votes.
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I actually walked out and left a family (in-law) Thanksgiving weekend - after listening to two of my masters level educated health care professional SIL's complain about ACA.
Weird.
Usually the Proglodytes wave away conservative complaints as the voices of those who aren't technical experts.
Here she has a pair of well-educated, working technical experts and she rejects everything they say.
It's almost as if Proglodytes are really nothing more than shallow partisan, two-faced hypocrites.
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Star Member Triana (19,810 posts)
White women didn’t just fail Wendy Davis — they failed the rest of Texas, too
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^They know it from shinola.
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As RH Reality Check’s Andrea Grimes reports, their votes were solidly in Davis’ favor: 94 percent of black women and 61 percent of Latinas voted for her. Only 32 percent of white women did. That’s certainly not enough women to say that Abbott won the whole gender (though that’s a ludicrous statement in the first place). It seems to be enough, though, to result in the erasure of votes from women of color, Grimes notes:
That sure is thoughtful of minority women to try to keep their populations in check.
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Davis beat Abbott among ... African-Americans (93-7)... their votes were solidly in Davis’ favor: 94 percent of black women...
If there's ever been a group jumping up and down waving their arms and yelling "Hey, ignore us, abuse us, treat us like dirt, we don't care, we'll vote for you anyway," there you have it.
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Weird.
Usually the Proglodytes wave away conservative complaints as the voices of those who aren't technical experts.
Here she has a pair of well-educated, working technical experts and she rejects everything they say.
It's almost as if Proglodytes are really nothing more than shallow partisan, two-faced hypocrites.
My thoughts exactly. People who are educated and working in THAT field don't like it but DUmmie knows best so goes outside to sulk.
KC
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You’ll hear that Greg Abbott “carried†women voters in Texas. Anyone who says that is also saying this: that Black women and Latinas are not “women,†and that carrying white women is enough to make the blanket statement that Abbott carried all women. That women generally failed to vote for Wendy Davis. As if women of color are some separate entity, some mysterious other, some bizarre demographic of not-women...
That is one of the most idiotic and convoluted pieces of epic stupidity I have read in a long time.
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I heard that Abbott got a good chunk of the Hispanic vote. I was gone all last week so I didn't get the information as fresh as I would have liked to.
What, Abbott won by like 20%-21%, right? That is not something they could've overcome. Everyone saw how stupid that blond woman is. I mean EVERYONE.
KC
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If there's ever been a group jumping up and down waving their arms and yelling "Hey, ignore us, abuse us, treat us like dirt, we don't care, we'll vote for you anyway," there you have it.
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H5+
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I'm kind of sorry the Ku Klux Klams haven't been around to weigh in on the election results.
They're probably not pleased.
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What is it with these misogynistic leftists who don't think that women are capable of deciding whom they should vote for?
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I was commuting to Milwaukee and I live in Dallas.
It was like I was watching the same democrat campaign in both places (except mary burke is MUCH uglier).
Out and out lies by both womyn - -Politifact listed 14 complete lies made by burke and from what I saw, davis was repeating those same lies about Abbott (well, actually she was running against Rick Perry if you watched her ads).
Also, it was interesting that almost all the ads I saw were by the shrews, yet both Walker and Abbott kicked massive butt in their respective wins.
I wish this was like the old days when a loss like this would remove davis and burke from future runs, but they are still darlings of the liberal press.
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both Walker and Abbott kicked massive butt in their respective wins.
Wrong. For her age, Abortion Barbie has a very nice ass.
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The pumpernickel women went for Barbie at a rate of 97%.
(And as long as they keep killing themselves by abortions, that 97% will remain a fart in the wind)
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That sure is thoughtful of minority women to try to keep their populations in check.
African Americans voted 93-7 in favor of Abbot and women make up the majority of our population now yet they say AA women voted 94% in favor of abortion Barbie? Something dosent add up here.
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Wrong. For her age, Abortion Barbie has a very nice ass.
And if she would just do something about that gross looking lesion on the side of her face, she might be half presentable.
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It seems to be enough, though, to result in the erasure of votes from women of color, Grimes notes
Oh, phucking puh-leeeze....... :banghead: Erasure?!?! It's always that, isn't it?
[DU] It's like white reTHUGliKKKan wymmyns eRaSedThEirVotE!!11!! eLeBiNty!!11 AND STOLE THE ELECTION!![/DU] :thatsright:
Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!!!!
:bird: :bird:
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Oh, phucking puh-leeeze....... :banghead: Erasure?!?! It's always that, isn't it?
[DU] It's like white reTHUGliKKKan wymmyns eRaSedThEirVotE!!11!! eLeBiNty!!11 AND STOLE THE ELECTION!![/DU] :thatsright:
Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!!!!
:bird: :bird:
They just cannot accept the fact that Abortion Barbie was, and is, just plain wrong for Texas--and the USA as a whole.
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Wrong. For her age, Abortion Barbie has a very nice ass.
I checked her Wikipedia page, having known she attended my alma mater. She was actually there for the first two years that I was. Unlikely I would have ever met her, but it was certainly possible given the size of the student body.
Would love to have been able to throw in a 26 year old bouncy story, but I can't.
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I checked her Wikipedia page, having known she attended my alma mater. She was actually there for the first two years that I was. Unlikely I would have ever met her, but it was certainly possible given the size of the student body.
Would love to have been able to throw in a 26 year old bouncy story, but I can't.
C'mn, Ralphie Boy. We know you nailed her to a dorm mattress when you were a freshman.
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Silly twat. "White women" don't owe Wendy Davis anything, particularly their votes, so they didn't "fail" her. They didn't buy what she was selling, and decided that Texas would be better off without her.
White women in Texas, like each voter in every election, voted for their own self-interests. For most of them, Wendy Davis didn't represent their self-interests, so she didn't get their votes.
I not only tire of their racial politics, but the gender ones as well that every woman I know seems to adopt. This idea that women must support other women. I'm sorry, but just because you share my gender does not make you the type of person I want to throw my support behind. I support people based on their character, not their gender. And what a slap in the face to the sons of women that do otherwise. Do their daughters deserve more support then their sons? Bet they never think about it from that perspective...
Had a facebook friend just temper tantrum because other women dared to say they prefer to work with men because women are too much drama..guess she never considered that other women should start growing up in the workplace and stop bringing dramatics; instead she blames the rational women for daring to call other women out for behaving like high schoolers in an adult setting. :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
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Poor DUmmies, they have such a hard time with women who break away from the harpie herd.
Cindie
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Had a facebook friend just temper tantrum because other women dared to say they prefer to work with men because women are too much drama..guess she never considered that other women should start growing up in the workplace and stop bringing dramatics; instead she blames the rational women for daring to call other women out for behaving like high schoolers in an adult setting. :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
Did you note this to her? It might be insightful to know her response.
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I not only tire of their racial politics, but the gender ones as well that every woman I know seems to adopt. This idea that women must support other women. I'm sorry, but just because you share my gender does not make you the type of person I want to throw my support behind. I support people based on their character, not their gender. And what a slap in the face to the sons of women that do otherwise. Do their daughters deserve more support then their sons? Bet they never think about it from that perspective...
Had a facebook friend just temper tantrum because other women dared to say they prefer to work with men because women are too much drama..guess she never considered that other women should start growing up in the workplace and stop bringing dramatics; instead she blames the rational women for daring to call other women out for behaving like high schoolers in an adult setting. :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
I totally agree with you Jty. I swear any given department should have one woman max. (Slightly joking...just slightly)
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I not only tire of their racial politics, but the gender ones as well that every woman I know seems to adopt. This idea that women must support other women. I'm sorry, but just because you share my gender does not make you the type of person I want to throw my support behind. I support people based on their character, not their gender. And what a slap in the face to the sons of women that do otherwise. Do their daughters deserve more support then their sons? Bet they never think about it from that perspective...
Had a facebook friend just temper tantrum because other women dared to say they prefer to work with men because women are too much drama..guess she never considered that other women should start growing up in the workplace and stop bringing dramatics; instead she blames the rational women for daring to call other women out for behaving like high schoolers in an adult setting. :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
I am glad you posted this.
It got me to thinking, and has given a new insight for me into the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
In that, we should judge by the content of someones character.
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Did you note this to her? It might be insightful to know her response.
No because her and I already went rounds over a hissy fit she had about parents of autistic children explaining to people when a child is disruptive that they are autisic as being apologetic for something they shouldn't be instead of it being an educational moment when people may be wondering what is wrong ::) Trust me there isn't no getting through. I have, however, had this disagreeent with a friend of mine in person and she backtracked saying well of course character mattered more to which I asked her then why she would even support the idea of supporting women based on gender only since if she does that she will always choose a female before she can even know their character. I told her perhaps she meant she would encourage and support her female friends in their efforts, but that is not the way it is qualified when this discussion happens. The discussion comes across as rah rah--go girl go--no boys allowed. She said she hadn't thought about it that way... :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
ps I noted to myself mentally that considering her view on the above she was likely the type who thought any disruption to other folks by her kids didn't desrve notice, acknowledgement, or apology and therefore we would never see eye to eye on that sicne quite frankly I despise other women and mothers like that and they usually are the ones who want this sisterhood of women since lets face it when they stand on their own parenting merits and other qualities it becomes apparent that sisterhood is very necessary to the to avoid responsibility for their intrusive choices and lack of intervention.
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I totally agree with you Jty. I swear any given department should have one woman max. (Slightly joking...just slightly)
So long as you or Schade are that woman, sure!