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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
The GOP was the party that made it stick. Women's suffrage started heavily out in the interior west, actually, places like Wyoming were among the first to afford them the broadest rights, and those places were solidly Democrat, but it was the GOP who essentially mainstreamed the issue and helped get it to Amendment status, but that's also because the GOP was the mainstream party of the day.
Yay, screw you Scott!
edited 12th Sep '15 4:40:30 PM by Ogodei
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I want him gone. I dislike his "policies" so very much, and I'm not even on the same continent as the guy.
Frankly, I feel for everybody already affected by the crap he's pulled, and wouldn't wish more to join them even if I were in Bitch On Wheels Mode. -_-
edited 12th Sep '15 4:40:36 PM by Euodiachloris
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Walker is more palatable in some ways. Guy keeps winning in a state that leans blue in presidential elections, and knows how to take on and crush unions. He's definitely one of the more dangerous candidates there, both ideologically and because we see that he has the skill to follow through on his own bad ideas.
I didn't know he'd dropped back to 10th place, though? Of course, the problem with Trump's ascendency and the scattered nature of the rest of the field is that everyone but Trump, Carson, and Bush in some polls is dangerously close to margin-of-error territory.
Speaking of our favorite former First Lady, Clinton is shamelessly using infants
(well, one of them) in her new campaign ads.
"When I look at my new granddaughter, I think to myself, 'We are going to do everything we can to make sure she has opportunities in life. But what about all the kids?'" Clinton says to open the ad. The remarks are taken from a campaign event Clinton held in North Las Vegas, Nevada, last month.
"You should not have to be the grandchild of a former president to know that you can make it in America," Clinton says, using a phrase she often uses on the campaign trail. The ad tracks with what the Clinton campaign hopes to make their new focus: Clinton as a more relative and spontaneous grandmother. After a trying summer, the Clinton campaign has tried to reset itself in September, hoping to cast Clinton as more fun and free than she has been viewed in the past.
Campaign aides feel that casting Clinton as a grandmother and mother shows her as she truly is and makes her more relatable. Charlotte was born last September but has yet to be seen on the campaign trail. The ad features already-released photos of Hillary and Bill Clinton holding the baby in the hospital.
Clinton regularly mentions Charlotte on the campaign trail, however. "Bill and I just stand around watching Charlotte. Whatever she does we think is marvelous, nobody has ever done it before," she said earlier this month in Iowa. "She learns to clap her hands, we give her a standing ovation."
The ad continues with Clinton stating that her "mission as president" will be "to make sure I do everything I can, every single day, to knock down the barriers, to open up the doors, so that every child has a chance to live up to his or her God-given potential." The ad is similar to Clinton's direct-to-camera ad "Stretched," where Clinton argues that "raising family incomes is the defining economic challenge of our time."
And on the other side of the aisle, Walker is ready for verbal fisticuffs at the next debate
, in the hopes people will start paying attention to him again.
"I think we're going to step it up and be more aggressive this time," Walker told CNN Saturday, in between playing a game of cornhole and meeting tailgaters ahead of Iowa's biggest football rivalry: the Iowa/Iowa State game. "I really hope to be aggressive and make the case that we're ready to wreak havoc on Washington," Walker added.
In the first GOP debate in August, Walker played a more passive role, mainly waiting for the moderator to come around to him for his next question. "I'm a Midwesterner," he said. "We're pretty polite."
The wait-your-turn approach was a safe one. It meant Walker didn't make any major errors, but he also didn't appear to leave a lasting impression. Once the Iowa front-runner, Walker has watched his lead evaporate in the Hawkeye State. Just 3% of likely Republican caucus-goers in Iowa said they were supporting Walker in a new Quinnipiac University poll. Former reality TV star Donald Trump leads the field in Iowa with 27% support.
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Any port in a storm I guess. But how desperate are you to use your own grandkid as a pawn to further your chance of getting elected?
Now I really do hope Sanders gives her a smackdown.
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Its not just a game, its also a sex act
Please don't ask how I know that.
edited 13th Sep '15 4:52:28 AM by Skycobra51
Look upon my privilege ye mighty and despair.
Re: grandkid, if she didn't, then without a doubt some Republican would try to turn it against her. There were shots taken at Chelsea when Bill was in office, and there's been shots taken at the Obama girls, so ... I don't really blame Hillary for using her granddaughter in a commercial, but the tongue-in-cheek mockery was too good to let pass.
Re: I'm going to pretend you read it on Urban Dictionary and ignore anything you say that contradicts this.
That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - SilaswI don't see the problem with what Clinton did either. Sure, if it was entirely insincere, like those sort of things often come off as that would be one thing, but I have no problem believing she actually means it.
True, using her granddaughter is a good way to tug on people's heart strings but that doesn't mean the message itself is false or she doesn't actually believe it.
It's kind of a catch-22. If she doesn't bring up her grand-child, she'll be savaged for not being maternal enough and painted as a terrible woman. If she does bring up her grandchildren, she's painted as exploiting them. She doesn't have the luxury of leaving the kid out of things entirely because she's a woman and thus her breeding abilities are considered fair game in a way they aren't with men.
Thus sometimes the best way to keep the kid out of things is to make sure that they come up only as a segway in a controlled circumstance.
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick

"Scott Walker cancels events to focus on Iowa and South Carolina" or "Scott Walker is looking like the next sick cow in the herd to be culled."
Mr. Walker, who has fallen in one key Iowa poll from first place in July to 10th place this month, no longer plans to appear next weekend at a prestigious Republican conference on Mackinac Island in Michigan or at the California Republican Party convention. Instead, his advisers said, he plans to campaign in Iowa — where he is holding events this weekend as well — and in South Carolina.
Mr. Walker’s advisers said the last-minute cancellations were not a sign of panic about the viability of his presidential bid but rather a recognition that at this point his time and campaign funds are better spent on Iowa and South Carolina. Mr. Walker regards Iowa, which will hold the nation’s first presidential nominating contest on Feb. 1, as virtually a must-win state that would energize his supporters and donors nationwide. And he has long seen South Carolina, which votes later that month, as another winnable early state that could give him momentum and stature in a large field of Republican candidates.
By skipping the events in California and Michigan, two states with larger and more diverse electorates than Iowa and South Carolina, as well as more delegates at stake to help win the nomination, Mr. Walker risks diminishing himself. Once a national front-runner, he increasingly looks like a regional candidate — hoping his Midwestern roots will win him Iowa — who is pursuing single-state strategies rather than projecting confidence across the country…. [