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Much Obliged!

SjP — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:04:23 -0500

Miteegirl, much obliged for stopping by SjP's to read the original post and view the video.

Much Obliged, SjP

The video in this post...

miteegirl — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:10:38 -0500

...at your blog was inspirational and humbling. Thank you.

More undecided voters reject Palin

miteegirl — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:52:31 -0500

It gets more interesting...

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/22/pennsylvania/

Fingers Crossed

rebellious thinker — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:05:04 -0500

Let's hope that people keep seeing where there really is hope for an improvement on things as they are. And that they go towards hope and away from fear. Let's hope your female relatives are a part of a huge trend.

Laura, www.rebelliousthoughtsofawoman.com

Party People

averyotto — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:15:03 -0500

I wish I could throw a party. I live in Alabama. Even here you see more than a few Obama signs in the yard. The Bible Belt South lives up to its spurious history. I live here and I want to make change happen where it counts most. So in the upcoming weeks, I will be on my feet, hitting the street. This is a time of action. Most Americans in the wake of the Wall Street crisis, in the midst of small town despair, and with our ecological future in such desperate question will not vote with blind loyalty. The basis of American optimism and ingenuity is that we thrive with change. So its time to face our demons and get to the polls and vote.

last day to register

zephoria — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:45:57 -0500

Last day to register in CA: October 20

Yeah, I know CA all too well. This all started as "proposition parties" so that we could figure out what on earth those damn ballot measures were saying. Cuz you probably know that what they say on the surface ain't what they say when you look at them.

Take, for example, this year's Proposition 4. Its title is: "Sarah's Law: Child and Teen Safety and Stop Predators Act." What does it actually do? It prohibits minors from getting an abortion without parental consent (the fourth attempt at the same proposition). Regardless of which side of the choice/life debate you're on, this is skeezy. It's intentionally misleading because who wouldn't be interested in stopping predators?

Planning my party

Maria Niles — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 11:38:42 -0500

I am the person my family goes to for information about all the down ballot stuff because I'm a geek about it. Throwing a party sounds like a great way to get people engaged rather than relying on me to just do homework for them.

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What a great idea danah!

Elisa Camahort — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 10:36:51 -0500

I've held fundraisers before, and I've done voter registration activities, but I never thought of doing the above. And as you well know California is a state that has become deluged with these Proposition slates every election...most of which I feel too overwhelmed to really learn enough about...and I often leave portions of my ballot blank, rather than vote blindly.

Hmmm...off to figure out last day to register in California...

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Senator McCain Isn't Dumb

Sara Gunderson — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 09:16:20 -0500

Senator McCain doesn't get that. He doesn't understand that women vote
with their brains, their thoughts, their philosophies. Women don't automatically pull the lever or punch the chad for the one who wears
heels.

I'm curious about this assumption that McCain picked Palin to win Hillary supporters. I just don't see anything to indicate that. Personally, I don't think she was picked to win women's votes half as much as to win conservative religious votes and to energize the Republican Party.

Black, Gray and White

rebellious thinker — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:56:50 -0500

While I disagree with Palin's politics it's important to understand, unfortunately that she represents many women--and men. Seeing people cheer her at the Republican convention made it all too clear that there are those who really do tow the line of all those anti-women policies in the guise of something--family values, God, good of country? They refuse to hear that what is good for us all is also good for the individual. Her candidacy has legitimized the anti-woman stance, the paternal stance since she so enthusiastically embraces it. But we live in a world with many women and men who have grown up with trickle-down feminism, and I hope, no, I believe, that this, this visceral statement of equality, cannot be reversed.

Laura, www.RebelliousThoughtsofaWoman.com

I'm so jealous!

PunditMom — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:56:06 -0500

Wish I could have been there!

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Great stuff @ PDF

Sarah Granger — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:54:58 -0500

Zephyr's talk was really interesting - her points about organization vs. mobilization were well taken. There's so much out there about netroots and organic responses in online politics, but for people who have actually done it, the term "organizing" really is key because it takes more work than it looks to direct masses of people online. A lot of it is viral, but much of it is directed too, and the numbers by which these achievements are measured really have become major forces with which people are taking the role of the Internet in politics seriously.

I also thought the graphic of the political mommybloggers as somewhat separate but attached to the rest of the political blogosphere was telling, but that doesn't mean those blogs aren't being taken seriously as a part of the political discourse. What I've seen as someone participating from the tech, political, and mom views is that the moms who blog about politics (particularly in cases like MotherTalkers and MOMocrats who focus strongly or only on politics) are being viewed by others in the political blogosphere and other news media, but they aren't engaged at the same level as the moms on the blogs.

Sarah Granger, at FutureCampaigns, The Huffington Post & MOMocrats.com.

Back when the Democractic

earlgreyrooibos — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:25:29 -0500

Back when the Democractic race was still contested, I had no interest in supporting either Obama nor Clinton, but nor was I a McCain supporter. I saw each candidate as the "same old same old," and literally did not care which Democrat won the nomination. I guess I'm jaded, but to me, whoever wins, it will just be politics as usual.

Shooting themself in the foot

Stevenbrycesmom — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:12:27 -0500

A Hillary supporter who would vote for McCain would be shooting theirself in the foot. Why would you vote for someone who is that far from the belief system of Hillary?

Jess Mom to Thing 1 and Thing 2 CEO of Knight INC.

Vote for McCain? No, but a few may stay home in November

Nordette — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:25:56 -0500

... Lisa Witter and Lisa Chen point out that women aren't a niche market, we're the market.

Anybody who's paid attention to the market would know that. :-) I'll have to check out this book.

People who are in the business of crafting messages, selling a product, or pundrity like to segment the population as much as they can so they'll know who they're targeting and sometimes even who they're disrpespecting. You've probably also seen the other name for "Hillary women," angry white women. Pop culture loves buzz phrases.

From what I know of human psychology, I doubt that a Hillary supporter who is really angry about Obama getting the nomination will vote for McCain. That would be pretty spiteful and stupid of anyone who doesn't want to see more Bush policy pushed through in Washington.

However, I wouldn't be suprised to learn that angry people stay home and don't vote at all. Anger tends to make us self-centered. How will the election be impacted if disgruntled folks who believe they've been disenfranchised choose to stay home from the polls?

Remember that poor black people who believe the system is against them have stayed home for years, and they're probably worse off for that inaction.

I think educated American women who want to move this country forward will vote in November because they want to make this country better and not do something less just to spite the DNC or Obama supporters. I don't think women who've supported Hillary will play the sterotype of "a woman scorned."

I want to believe women are not the puppets some in the media would like us to believe they are.

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