Feminists don't understand conservative women,

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and that's why Hillary won't win the election.

Feminists think all women side with each other on all issues -- that there aren't women who have minds of their own, and who think through the issues, and who pick a presidential candidate based on the most important of those issues. Rather, Hillary thinks she's automatically going to induct all American women into her voting camp because of their shared gender.
It is an insult to all thinking women, and she's going to pay dearly for that. They tried it in France, with Ségolène Royal. She was supposedly going to win, and she didn't even get 50% of the female vote, and the liberals couldn't figure it out.

Anyone see the Democratic debates? Pretty sad. Obama and Edwards "piled on poor Hillary" -- ya right. They asked her to clarify a flip-flopped answer she gave, and that's "piling on"... Now, she's hiding behind the "Don't hit the girl!" mantra... Puh-lease!

So, ya, don't worry about Hillary. She's got no chance.

Would you really call Hillary Clinton a 'feminist' ?

I think perhaps she is just a patriarch in a skirt, she probably has more in common with that little rodent/dog Condaleza Rice!

All the 'feminists' I know disagree with the whole political power system as it is expressed in male competition and competitive practices. Women tend towards the co-operative/collective and consensus decision making - in my experience.

I don't think Hillary counts - do you?

peace j

Why not flip the question: do conservatives understand feminist women? Or do they distort and simplify it to make a straw-(wo)man that they can knock down? Do conservatives know what the different movements in feminism are, and how they differ? Or is the goal of conservatism to demonize feminism into 'feminazism' that they can ridicule and dismiss?

The gender-gap for presidential politics varies depending on the candidates and the issues. But it almost always favors the Democrats.

Feminism and conservativism are not diametrically opposed or mutually exclusive.

I don't think anyone should vote for or against someone based on their genitalia.

5% is a landslide? Ok, Whatever. Off-topic? No, the topic is women and politics. You can't have conservative women without liberal women; you cant have put Dems attitudes toward women under the microscope and declare that Republican attitudes towards women are completely irrelevant to the election.

Yes, rural women need to be accounted for - especially since a rural state vote counts for more than a vote in a big state; each sparsely populated state has a quota of electoral votes regardless of their population that works against the idea of 1 person, 1 vote.

10:1 conservative to feminist? I think not. But it depends on how you define feminist. Are US women 10:1 against choice on abortion? Obviously not. Are women 10:1 in favor of the idea that the man should be the head of the household? No. While many women do not identify themselves as feminists (which is often equated with 'activist'), they are strongly in favor of what feminism fought for: the right to vote and own property, equal pay for equal work, an end to sexual harassment and domestic abuse, access to contraception and reproductive control, etc. etc.