Why do women voters
not vote for women candidates?
During our conversation, Amedore emphatically declared himself to be «pro-life,» and said he could
not vote for the Women's Equality Act if it contained the abortion - rights plank.
Not exact matches
«I
voted for Zena
not because she was black or a
woman.
I'm
not a conservative myself, but I'm reckoning there are a lot of conservative
women out there who are disgusted by the PC use of Redford as an all - purpose witch and who might
vote for Danielle Smith in protest of it.
In a shot across the bows
for a number of companies, LGIM said it would
vote against British companies where
women did
not represent at least a quarter of the board, and wanted a full breakdown of any gender pay gap and plans to close it.
LONDON AXA Investment Managers will
vote in protest against companies which do
not explain how they will boost the number of
women on their boards, joining growing demands
for workplace diversity.
We painted the sancturay and the
women told us men, we DID
NOT have a
vote ------ now how is that
for restricting freedom?
You go ahead and keep the tradition of intolerance and lack of community, I am going to
vote for the man or
woman who can make a difference because they know what they are doing and
not because they have a belief I don't agree with.
Whether one
voted for the Liberal Party of
not, Canadians were thrilled to see a cabinet that reflected a fuller picture of who we are — First Nations, immigrants and born - and - raised Canadians, men and
women, regional representation, gay and straight, Christian and Sikh and atheist and Muslim among other religions, differently abled, different socio - economic stories, and so on.
Perhaps that is why our country was founded on the principle of
women not being allowed to
vote for their own president, they didn't have as much going on up in their heads as men.
At the end of the day,
women, Catholic or
not, are
not going to
vote for someone who is interested in sending them back to the 17th century so no, I don't believe Obama is going to lose the Catholic
vote unless they didn't
vote for him the last time.
Also, as any written law implies, those who
voted for men and
women who touted this God of the bible as being true are guilty even if
not premeditated.
The rationalization of southern baptists is truly mind boggling — the idea that each church is «autonomous» as justification
for outright racism is pitiful in this day and age — if the Southern Baptist convention had come out strongly and adamantly against this kind of behavior, I'd have at least a measure of respect
for them — but to shrug off a blatant act of discrimination as the «work of the devil» and ignore the deacon's cowardice in wanting to avoid «controversy» is laughable — if it weren't
for people having the courage to fan the flames of controversy,
women and african american would
not have the right to
vote today — more evidence of the ignorance of most bible thumpers, and Mississippi in particular
The image of a
woman who is battered
for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can
not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a
woman who was sacked from the
women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other
women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would
not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a
woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church
for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.
The day that Islam advocates all freedom
for all
women I will have no problem with more Mosques, in the meantime, because this belief / Creed / Religion as it is now (and has been over thousands of years under the world's noses)
women are still
not allowed to
vote,
women are
not doctors, they do
not study to become lawyers, owners of companies, presidents of countries.
Vote for the man or
woman not the religion.
And it is this
NT scriptural support
for the discrimination of
women that helped to deny
women the right to
vote in this country until 1920.
These people would
not allow any religion but Christianity to be seen in a good light if taught in classes in the USA, when history proves that, Christianity is the reason so many people in the USA have been motivated to lynch black people, make gays second class citizens, fought against
woman being allowed to
vote, hunted down and killed others from different denominations, force all other's to pay
for their «work» whether in the USA or around the world through tax exempt status, gifts or «Faith - based initiatives».
For most of histoyr men have thought
women shouldn't be educated and that they shouldn't be allowed to
vote and we're still on the tail end of that in both church and state.
It is a commonplace among scholars of the
Women's movement that the 19th century struggle for women's rights in America had lost much of its radical thrust by the end of the century as the vote became the single overriding issue, and that supporters of women's suffrage were not above an appeal to blatant racism and class - consciousness to advance their c
Women's movement that the 19th century struggle
for women's rights in America had lost much of its radical thrust by the end of the century as the vote became the single overriding issue, and that supporters of women's suffrage were not above an appeal to blatant racism and class - consciousness to advance their c
women's rights in America had lost much of its radical thrust by the end of the century as the
vote became the single overriding issue, and that supporters of
women's suffrage were not above an appeal to blatant racism and class - consciousness to advance their c
women's suffrage were
not above an appeal to blatant racism and class - consciousness to advance their cause.
I'm on the right, and while I certainly don't feel hate towards this
woman, it is clear that she is just a token black
for Romney to try and get some of the black
vote, which he has about 0 % of at the moment.
It was
not freedom
for workers to organize trade unions,
for blacks to
vote,
for aboriginal peoples to retain their lands, or
for women to have equal rights with men.
So in order to simulate what life would be like
for a
woman like me in ancient near eastern culture, I probably shouldn't
vote.
Romney is done
for because he supports morons like Richard Mourdock and it shows why
women shouldn't
vote for him.
«I would have and could have
voted to allow that to go through, if I felt like we had tightly defined the ability
for a
woman and a doctor to be making this decision together and
not have the Legislature get too deep in the weeds of how we would describe when that was appropriate.»
@Bill Deacon «If you can't imagine a world in which a
woman would be chaste, you should probably
vote for free contraception and government funded abortion.»
If you can't imagine a world in which a
woman would be chaste, you should probably
vote for free contraception and government funded abortion
Over at The Political Voices of
Women, guest blogger Deb Della Piana from Turn Left asks women to Use Your Brains, Don't Vote for Mc
Women, guest blogger Deb Della Piana from Turn Left asks
women to Use Your Brains, Don't Vote for Mc
women to Use Your Brains, Don't
Vote for McCain.
I can
not imagine
voting for a person (ESPECIALLY a
woman) who would look at my (hypothetical) daughter and say yes, even if you are raped, and even if that crime is committed by a family member, and even if you are 12, you MUST have that baby.
The British Humanist Association has reactivated Holy Redundant campaign urging the public to email their MPs against continuing reserved places
for bishops in the House of Lords following the Church of England's 20th Nov 2012
vote to
not to allow
women to be bishops.
Many men supported the struggle
for women's
vote and
women's labour struggles,
not least Keir Hardie.
Frankly, I think it's a sign of political maturity
for a
woman NOT to
vote for another
woman — simply because of their common gender.
When I asked James Cleverly — the Tory MP
for Braintree — about it
for the Guardian's Politics Weekly podcast, he described bumping into a
woman coming out of a polling station on election day, looking sheepish as she admitted she had
not voted for him.
BTW,
voting's also going on in the Superheroes
for DC mayoral race today; I ain't officially taking sides [cough] Wonder
Woman [/ cough], but go exercise your Democratic rights — it'll sure count more than most
votes do in DC.
Your answer only starts to address «why, in general,
women don't
vote for other
women more» if you prove the assertion that there's a reason
for women to consider other
women to be unwinnable against Hitler.
«
Not only did Faso cast the deciding
vote for this boardroom bailout, but he broke his promise to New York
women by
voting to defund Planned Parenthood.
However, what is puzzling, is why do
women (or any other identity - politics aficionados who care more about gender than a person's individual qualities) who complain about lack of
women being elected, don't actually put their money where their mouths are and support and
vote for those
women who DO run
for office?
This isn't even a partisan thing - plenty of
women vote for a man in Democratic primaries featuring both genders, where the standard idiotic explanation of «female candidate is a Republican
woman and thus anti-
women as all Republicans are» doesn't fly.
Buffalo State College President Katherine Conway - Turner celebrated the event reading by reading a statement by Victoria Woodhull, first
woman to run
for president in 1872, when
women generally couldn't
vote.
We have seen labours idea of getting
women elected, thats failed, they were hand picked by Blair to
vote for him
not to question him.
But despite their lead in the polls, Labour can
not rest on its laurels and take the
women's
vote for granted.
He added, «The legislature is now running
for re-election and what we're saying is we want a legislature that will pass the
Women's Equality Act and we have a right to know who's going to pass it, who's
not going to pass it before we
vote.»
I am a
women who would NOT vote for Cuomo and can't believe he came up with a Women's Equity line considering all the smart women in his administration have fled: ex: Leecia
women who would
NOT vote for Cuomo and can't believe he came up with a
Women's Equity line considering all the smart women in his administration have fled: ex: Leecia
Women's Equity line considering all the smart
women in his administration have fled: ex: Leecia
women in his administration have fled: ex: Leecia Eve.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, is pushing
for votes on his
Women's Equality Party ballot line next week, is
not mentioned.
Cilento says union members «will
not forget» the four New York congressmen and
women who
voted for the bill: Collins, Congressmen Tom Reed and John Katko and Representative Claudia Tenney, calling it an act of «betrayal.»
«Governor Cuomo thinks he can buy
women's
votes by cynically creating a new party to advertise values he hasn't fought
for in office,» she said in a statement.
(v) OSCE PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY — TWO REMAINING VACANCIES (all Labour MPs may
vote in this contest) Please note Linda Riordan has been elected as there is
not a contest to fill the vacancy
for women members CANDIDATES: Tony Lloyd, Dai Havard, Nick Smith, Linda Riordan, Mark Hendrick
«What jumps out in the findings is that there is
not only widespread support
for gun reform, but it has become a
voting issue
for gun reform advocates, especially
women.»
Cilento, says union members «will
not forget» the four New York congressmen and
women who
voted for the bill: Congressmen Chris Collins, Tom Reed and John Katko and Rep. Claudia Tenney, calling it an act of «betrayal.»
New Hampshire Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte said Saturday that she will
not vote for her party's presidential nominee Donald Trump, in light of derogatory comments he made about assaulting
women.