"In this moment, … it is clear that women have electoral and political power over more than abortion rights.

William Lindsey :toad:

The 1980 election was the first one in which the proportion of eligible female voters who turned out to vote was higher than the proportion of eligible men. It was also the first one in which there was a partisan gender gap, with a higher proportion of women than men favoring the Democrats."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#KamalaHarris #Trump #women #abortion
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November 2, 2024

Yesterday, in Time magazine, Eric Cortellessa explained that the electoral strategy of the Trump campaign was to get men who don’t usually vote, particularly young ones, to turn out for Trump.

(heathercoxrichardson.substack.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"That partisan gap now is the highest it has ever been.

The fear that women can, if they choose, overthrow the patriarchal mythology of cowboy individualism that shaped the modern MAGA Republican Party is likely behind the calls of certain right-wing influencers and evangelical leaders to stop women from voting."

#KamalaHarris #Trump #women #abortion
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lolonurse

@wdlindsy
Yeah, and it still didn't help. We got Ray-gun anyway.

William Lindsey :toad:

@lolonurse Reagan garnered the vote of 62% of white women, and a majority of white women have continued voting Republican in almost every election cycle right through 2020. I think that unless white women break that pattern this election, we may see Trump win the White House. The big challenge is not women voters in general: it's white women voters.

lolonurse

@wdlindsy
Well, I'm protected from that ugly information in a couple of ways. Secular Jews tend to be Democrats. New Yorkers are mostly Democrats. Californians are mostly Democrats. College educated women tend more towards Democratic.
I have a few more layers of avoidance, in case I need them...

William Lindsey :toad:

@lolonurse I'm glad you're protected. It's good the nation has protected spaces. Unfortunately, a lot of us outside major urban areas on the two coasts don't have that kind of protection. We have to face the fact that many of our family members, neighbors, and friends are perfectly happy with what Trump represents. While — again, unfortunately — the media centered in those protected bubbles in one way and another promote Trump, trusting they and theirs will not be too hurt if fascism wins.

William Lindsey :toad:

“'Age and gender are the two most dynamic factors that are explaining these numbers,' Ann Selzer said of the numbers.

I know this intuitively. I know that because I have been traveling into Iowa to speak to groups large and small for two years. I have been in small towns and big cities across the state and I know who is doing the organizing…

It’s the women."

~ Jess Piper

#KamalaHarris #Trump #women #abortion #Iowa #AnnSelzer
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Harris Could Take...Iowa?

The Selzer Poll and Rural Organizing

(jesspiper.substack.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"Here’s the thing that a lot of pollsters have been getting wrong: they don’t think abortion will be the reason that older women choose to vote for a Democrat. And I know that isn’t true. I have talked to hundreds of folks on the ground in places like Iowa. I’ve spoken to so many women.

Abortion may be seen as a political strategy to some, but it is life or death for women and girls."

#KamalaHarris #Trump #women #abortion #Iowa #AnnSelzer
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lolonurse

@wdlindsy
Isn't that mind-boggling?! Our news/information media have almost all drifted over to the tabloid and circus circuit.

Cynnbad she/her

@wdlindsy "Older" women. Like me. Remember coat hangers.

Juleselt

@wdlindsy Yes. Older woman here who had the benefit of being able to make my own decisions about reproductive care and I fear for younger women who are getting caught in this stupid cross fire argument over who gets to control them.

Older women do give a shit.

MoralCompass

@julescelt01 @wdlindsy

Yes. Older women do give a shit!

I've been watching the # of Mail-in Voters in SC for the past few days. Every single voter requesting a Mail-in ballot has been a Woman, over the age of 65, and Democrat. To me, that is the attitude we all need to have to get through this.

Mail-In #'s for SC as of today:

William Lindsey :toad:

@MoralCompass @julescelt01 Thank you — encouraging news.

William Lindsey :toad:

@julescelt01 Thank you. I keep telling myself that if my mother and her four sisters were alive today, they'd — beyond a shadow of a doubt — be casting their votes for Kamala Harris. They'd be beyond outraged at the proposal that men should tell them whom to vote for.

William Lindsey :toad:

@mmaniac90 Yep. That's why my mother and her four sisters, raised in the white evangelical South, all of them, did not buy the nonsense that came along when white evangelicals and right-wing Catholics created their alliance first to oppose civil rights laws and then legalization of abortion. They knew better and all knew stories of women being maimed or dying from backroom abortions. If they were alive today, I have no doubt at all they'd vote for Harris.

William Lindsey :toad:

@lolonurse It is mind-boggling. And it's infuriating,

William Lindsey :toad:

Tim Miller has an "emergency" talk with Ann Selzer about the shocking surprise she has offered the nation with her poll finding that Iowa appears to be tilting in the direction of Kamala Harris — due, Selzer explains, to women voters and the abortion issue.

#KamalaHarris #Trump #women #abortion #Iowa #AnnSelzer
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Ann Selzer: How Could This Be?

Few states are as red as Iowa, and yet the legendary Iowa pollster Ann Selzer found that Kamala has leapfrogged over Trump to take the lead there.

(www.thebulwark.com)

Nonya Bidniss 🥥🌴

@wdlindsy My cousin in IA just texted me about the poll, saying she didn't think Harris would pull it off but "it's fun to think about"

William Lindsey :toad:

"It’s been obvious to me and pretty much everyone who has a uterus what is driving the shift to Harris. But Selzer helpfully clarifies the data: 'Age and gender are the two most dynamic factors that are explaining these numbers.'”

~ Michele Hornish

#KamalaHarris #Trump #women #abortion #Iowa #AnnSelzer
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The Shock is Shocking: Pundits Don't Seem to Get This Election

Fundamental freedoms and election fundamentals

(michelehornish.substack.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"It never ceases to amaze me how amazed men are that women are voting for their literal freedom from a world where the government can force you to be an incubator - enduring months of daily torture and a lifetime of physical and psychological damage.

Yes we are single issue voters. The single issue is our life.

Stop being surprised that women are making this their issue.

Start being surprised that more men aren’t making it theirs."

#KamalaHarris #Trump #women #abortion #Iowa #AnnSelzer
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