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From the AP:
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton ’s top strategist predicted Thursday that up to a quarter of Republican women could support Clinton in the presidential contest - a claim that later drew sharp rebukes from the rival campaigns of Barack Obama and Rudy Giuliani.
Mark Penn, Clinton’s senior adviser and pollster, told reporters that private surveys suggested about 24 percent of Republican women could vote for Clinton because of “the emotional element of potentially having the first woman nominee.”
So a “private survey” suggests this huh? That seems awfully convenient. I conducted a “private survey” of my own and found the opposite to be true. However, you’d never know since it’s private.
I think this assertion is a bit over-zealous and rather silly. That would be like suggesting 25% of male Democrats would then vote for the Republican nominee simply because they’d prefer to vote for the same gender.
Obama got a little upset over the assertion that, if he were the nominee, Republican women wouldn’t vote for him in droves:
Penn’s claim that Clinton would win the support of GOP women was flatly challenged by Obama pollster Joel Benenson in an e-mail to reporters.
“Penn’s assertion is entirely baseless and refuted by a number of public polls. Moreover, these polls also indicate sizable defection among Democratic women should Sen. Clinton be the nominee,” Benenson said. “While it may not be her fault, Clinton appears to be as polarizing a figure as ever, showing the least crossover appeal of any of the Democratic candidates.”
For Hillary’s campaign to assert this sort of looks a bit presumptuous in my opinion. It’s almost getting reminiscent of Howard Dean in 2004 when he had the nomination “locked up”. I still believe she’ll be the nominee as long she stops making ridiculous statements that Republican women will defect in droves to vote for her.
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The U.S. election process is heating up, and the mud is spreading! Hillary Rodham Clinton, the leading Democratic candidate for U.S. President, is being sued in the state of California in what may be the largest election fraud in U.S. history. All news of this case has been effectively censored in the U.S. mainstream media.
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I am a republican woman and I will support Hillary.
I can only speak for the Republican women that I know, but they would laugh at this. I’m sure a few will cross the party line, but to say that 25% of women Republicans will switch parties just to vote for a women is pretty ridiculous. Putting gender and race above party initiatives is not a GOP tradition.
Stalin, you’ll note this article was posted in Oct. 2007 well before we had a republican nominee. I personally don’t think that 1% of republicans will be crossing that line be they female or male. Why would they if they are true republicans - the principles are so different. I’m more inclined to believe that anyone who does that is more Independent than Republican. As an Independent I looked at both parties, but true party members don’t usually do that.