Will women have a huge impact on the 2014 elections?

[Kath1]

I'v read a lot about how single women were a major factor in Obama's election in 2008 and 2012. I hope and pray we will have a significant impact in 2014.

Maybe it is because I live in a very blue state (Maryland) and my social group is very liberal, but most of the women I know are VERY committted to voting BLUE in November.

[sheshe2]

1. Kick and Hell yes Recommend!

Brava~

[Kath1]

2. We can do this!

Let's show all those wealthy, corporate, anti-minority, anti-woman bigots where are hearts really are!

Send a message in 2014! We won't go back!

[sheshe2]

3. Yes we can!

[SleeplessinSoCal]

4. Those who know there's an election.

Take a girlfiend to vote day November 4th. (my birthday and I know what I want).

[Kath1]

10. Yes.

Girlfriends, boyfriends, friends, relatives...everyone VOTE!

[Half-Century Man]

5. You ask a silly question

Justice is portrayed in stone as a woman right? The image of Lady Justice and her scales and sword is a running theme through out Western Civilization. From the Egyptian Goddesses Maat and Isis to the Greek Goddesses Themis and her daughter Dike to the Roman goddess Iustitia (the source for the word Justice). A woman has been seen as the wielder of fair and impartial judgment.

Tradition says the voice of women wield power. Only fools ignore that.

[Major Hogwash]

12. That's a lot of good info in your post!

Thanks for posting it here.

[merrily]

6. If we choose to.

Unlike other groups traditionally or historically subjugated, women are a majority of the population; and no one moves out of the neighborhood or hides their children because a woman has moved next door. So, we were always different. And, we finally got the vote, just under a hundred years ago.

One out of every 8 women ON EARTH is diagnosed with breast cancer one or more times during her life time. Yet, we allowed most breast cancer research to be done on groups of men. How many women lined up to protest that?

And, just about as soon as breast cancer research finally got opened up to women, the govt gave breast cancer research money to the financially-distressed space program of the Soviets, theoretically to study the effects of space on breast cancer. How many women lined up to protest that?

Ditto over FIFTY years of a heart study in Framingham, MA that accepted men only, while no one knew shit from shinola about heart disease in women.

What have we women been doing for the past 30 years to get a new ERA passed?

Why aren't politicians running to us with more than lip service and all year, every year, not only when they want our vote? (Remember: the "biggest" difference between Akin and his Dem opponent on choice was that the Dem would have allowed choice in the case of rape and incest--and that is all.)

What about affordable, safe and readily available child care?

Menendez said he wanted to get an ERA ratified by the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage. What's happening with that?

BTW, NONE of the above should be women's issues, even breast cancer. One of 8 women affect all of society.

Anyway, it's up to us. Can we, will we stand together and fight for what we need and want, or will we continue to fight for someone else's agenda? It's up to us.

[Kath1]

8. Good points!

Yes. It is up to US.

[HockeyMom]

7. Florida

Close election (why?). Crist has been been running ads, non stop, featuring all women talking about what Scott has done detrimental for women's health choices to equal pay.

This election Scott is running ads featuring his wife, not his "My Son is a Good Boy" mother. lol "My husband CARES about women." This is how he thinks he will win the women's vote? lol At any rate, both know that women will be a force in this election.

[Kath1]

9. LOL!

I hope women will make the difference for you in Florida!

[mopinko]

11. why they think trotting out the "little missus"

will win women's votes is a mystery to me.
so many of us that have lived with physical or emotional abuse see that look on her face, and recognize it from our mirrors.
at most, it makes many want to pull the covers over their heads.