jimnyc
11-29-2017, 05:26 PM
Read through, and it's "Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump,"
I know Trump pisses of a lot of people, and surely a lot of women. But they try and make you think that Trump has single handed changed the landscape of America, and things will dramatically change because of their "disgust" for him. Sure, and maybe some feel that way. But I don't see this dramatic change happening, nor as a result of Trump.
We will see change in congress. And maybe even a changing of the guard, which can happen in the mid-term of the presidency. It'll definitely be interesting to see how it plays out in the elections next year. But we're not going to see some massive takeover by women as a result of not liking Trump.
And with that said, it's not like the women on the Democrat side have been roaring to the masses - starting with the long running disaster known as Hillary Clinton. Then another long running disaster in Nancy Pelosi. If the democrats were smart, they would slowly make both of them disappear. But the democrats aren't very smart. :)
Then you have Maxine Waters who is spending her time in Congress on an impeachment tour. Dianne Feinstein is a fossil. Elizabeth Warren back in the news, and perhaps even running for President in 2020. But she's still running on a lie and won't come clean. Oh boy, then you have Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who is mangled up inside the Dem party. And Sheila Jackson Lee. Too long in office and I think the cobwebs are clogging her up upstairs.
So it's not like just because Trump is disliked that all women will suddenly be Dem, or that more women will win at all. But surely the Dem women are far from perfect.
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Women in 2018: Hear Them Roar
A feminist backlash against Trump has prompted more women to run for Congress than ever before. If they perform as expected, the House and Senate will have a record number of female members — by far.
Driven by their disgust with President Trump, a historic number of Democratic women are running for office in next year’s midterms and are poised to reshape the political landscape. If Democrats retake control of Congress in 2018, their majorities will be reached on the backs of up-and-coming female recruits.
Given that women make up over half the electorate, that dynamic may not seem all that newsworthy. But despite their political clout, women haven’t translated their numbers into a governing majority in Congress or the statehouses. It’s an especially conspicuous challenge for Democrats, who rely on women to get elected but have lagged in promoting their own to higher office. There are more Republican women (four) serving as governors than Democrats (two). Democratic women greatly outnumber their GOP counterparts in Congress, but they make up just one-third of senators and less than one-third of representatives.
Trump’s election clearly woke a sleeping giant. Last year’s presidential election featured the largest gender gap since exit polling began in 1972, with Hillary Clinton winning women by a 13-point margin despite losing the election. In this month’s Virginia governor’s race, Democrat Ralph Northam carried a whopping 61 percent of the women’s vote, even as Republican Ed Gillespie narrowly won over men. If Democrat Doug Jones scores an upset in the upcoming Senate race in Alabama, it will be because of a backlash from suburban Republican women disgusted with Republican Roy Moore’s alleged misconduct. In a recent Fox News poll, Jones led Moore by 25 points among women even as men were sticking with the scandal-plagued Republican by 12 points.
Most significantly, the female-fueled backlash to Trump is poised to change the composition of the Democratic rank-and-file in Congress. This year’s congressional recruiting class is dominated by women. If Democrats perform well next year, they’ll have the largest number of female senators and representatives in history—by a significant margin.
“This is not just about 2018. This is a watershed moment in American politics,” said EMILY’s List Executive Director Emily Cain, who helps recruit and advise Democratic women who favor abortion rights running for office. “It’s the triple threat of Trump winning, Clinton losing, and dangerous policies being enacted by Republicans in Washington and state legislatures.” Cain said that more than 22,000 women have called the Democratic group expressing interest in running since Trump’s election victory—an exponential spike from just 920 who did so during the entire 2016 election cycle.
Rest - https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/661168?unlock=5XKMIH4TOX0D9Q2Q
I know Trump pisses of a lot of people, and surely a lot of women. But they try and make you think that Trump has single handed changed the landscape of America, and things will dramatically change because of their "disgust" for him. Sure, and maybe some feel that way. But I don't see this dramatic change happening, nor as a result of Trump.
We will see change in congress. And maybe even a changing of the guard, which can happen in the mid-term of the presidency. It'll definitely be interesting to see how it plays out in the elections next year. But we're not going to see some massive takeover by women as a result of not liking Trump.
And with that said, it's not like the women on the Democrat side have been roaring to the masses - starting with the long running disaster known as Hillary Clinton. Then another long running disaster in Nancy Pelosi. If the democrats were smart, they would slowly make both of them disappear. But the democrats aren't very smart. :)
Then you have Maxine Waters who is spending her time in Congress on an impeachment tour. Dianne Feinstein is a fossil. Elizabeth Warren back in the news, and perhaps even running for President in 2020. But she's still running on a lie and won't come clean. Oh boy, then you have Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who is mangled up inside the Dem party. And Sheila Jackson Lee. Too long in office and I think the cobwebs are clogging her up upstairs.
So it's not like just because Trump is disliked that all women will suddenly be Dem, or that more women will win at all. But surely the Dem women are far from perfect.
---
Women in 2018: Hear Them Roar
A feminist backlash against Trump has prompted more women to run for Congress than ever before. If they perform as expected, the House and Senate will have a record number of female members — by far.
Driven by their disgust with President Trump, a historic number of Democratic women are running for office in next year’s midterms and are poised to reshape the political landscape. If Democrats retake control of Congress in 2018, their majorities will be reached on the backs of up-and-coming female recruits.
Given that women make up over half the electorate, that dynamic may not seem all that newsworthy. But despite their political clout, women haven’t translated their numbers into a governing majority in Congress or the statehouses. It’s an especially conspicuous challenge for Democrats, who rely on women to get elected but have lagged in promoting their own to higher office. There are more Republican women (four) serving as governors than Democrats (two). Democratic women greatly outnumber their GOP counterparts in Congress, but they make up just one-third of senators and less than one-third of representatives.
Trump’s election clearly woke a sleeping giant. Last year’s presidential election featured the largest gender gap since exit polling began in 1972, with Hillary Clinton winning women by a 13-point margin despite losing the election. In this month’s Virginia governor’s race, Democrat Ralph Northam carried a whopping 61 percent of the women’s vote, even as Republican Ed Gillespie narrowly won over men. If Democrat Doug Jones scores an upset in the upcoming Senate race in Alabama, it will be because of a backlash from suburban Republican women disgusted with Republican Roy Moore’s alleged misconduct. In a recent Fox News poll, Jones led Moore by 25 points among women even as men were sticking with the scandal-plagued Republican by 12 points.
Most significantly, the female-fueled backlash to Trump is poised to change the composition of the Democratic rank-and-file in Congress. This year’s congressional recruiting class is dominated by women. If Democrats perform well next year, they’ll have the largest number of female senators and representatives in history—by a significant margin.
“This is not just about 2018. This is a watershed moment in American politics,” said EMILY’s List Executive Director Emily Cain, who helps recruit and advise Democratic women who favor abortion rights running for office. “It’s the triple threat of Trump winning, Clinton losing, and dangerous policies being enacted by Republicans in Washington and state legislatures.” Cain said that more than 22,000 women have called the Democratic group expressing interest in running since Trump’s election victory—an exponential spike from just 920 who did so during the entire 2016 election cycle.
Rest - https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/661168?unlock=5XKMIH4TOX0D9Q2Q