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What many here refuse to face is that lukasiak is absolutely correct in saying that you are watching, for yet one more time, the Republicans run the Southern Strategy the difference today is that Obama is helping them do it and remains oblivious to that fact.

He along with the ‘Do-nothing’ Dead Loser Caucus in Congress able led by Miss Nancy and ‘SellOut’ Reid have done the seeming impossible.

Put McSame in a position where he can win.

And barring some big event between now and November….

That’s just what the numbers are showing he will do.

I get that feeling more than I used to get hot flashes! And, it’s still happening all the time to me — in the dem party.

I also think that if you are going to review the difference between male and female voters you have to take into consideration the differences in their priorities. Women tend to be more in tune with issues like elderly care because typically caring for our older parents falls on us (please note I said typically). The same can be said for child care, household budgets and very often healthcare. Because women typically make less than men in the workforce it’s more economical to have the woman miss a day of work to take sick kids to the doctor or attend to elderly parents.
Also, when you look at the difference between the way the campaigns of Obama and Clinton have been run you see a distinct gender and generational difference. My days of rock concert like political appearances appealing to me died about the same time I decided live concerts of some of my favorites, like Ozzy, are better heard on CD than in a crushing crowd where I have to wait to pee for 20 minutes. So, Clinton supporters are, from my experience from phone banking for her, more “calm” and tend to want to hear more substance and less brouhaha. I don’t want someone to make me feel good, I have Xanax for that;), I want answers and someone with a record I can relate to. I’m quite poor, but I can still relate much better to Clintons than Obamas.
I also spoke to a substantial amount of men while phone banking and it seems to me that they could relate better to Hillary because they have wives, mothers, sisters, etc. that they trust more than someone they don’t know well. Race never came up, not that it wasn’t in the back of their minds, but it was much more about trusting women in their own lives over strangers.
And, forgive me for the length of this post. But, there is a good reason for most computers to have female voices. This is a must read for this topic. Why female voices.From that Q&A forum I found this particualy germane to this discussion:
Frank Farley, a psychologist at Temple University, said the fact people are complaining about the male voice may be because fathers — meaning males — generally are viewed as the disciplinarians in the family.

In a wider societal context, he said males also are associated with control and power — attributes some find unsettling in an age of increased surveillance and war.

“The male voice lends itself more to that fear,” said Farley, past president of the American Psychological Association. “If they get a more soothing female voice, it may be that people don’t care so much about the rule aspect of it.”

In the south, Florida, Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas and louisiana are all in play

I wonder how much the Seigelman thing hurts Repubs in Alabama? Could Dems campaign there to win or would it only be to stretch Repub dollars?

Mr Bush, during a speech in which he ordered an indefinite halt in US troop withdrawals from Iraq this summer, called Iran one of the two “greatest threats to America in this century” – together with al-Qaeda…

An argument like that needs some proof to back it up.

There is no public knowledge which inclines Americans to be afraid of Iran, so if he wants to say we should be worried the onus is on him to prove it.

The McCain campaign claims they’ll make California competitive regardless of Rice. Their claims precede this latest Rice boomlet.

Every Republican campaign asserts that their “internal polling” tells them this, and that they will campaign prominently in California as a result.

They need to say it for fundraising purposes. And to mobilize the Party so that they are not utterly humiliated in Congressional and Statewide campaigns.It also might pare away some of the campaign resources from the Democratic campaign…and thus allow some competition elsewhere. But to win California McCain would have to pour hundreds of millions into the State while his opponent utterly ignored it.

That’s not going to happen.

and If I missed anyone’s questions comments I apologize… this “responding to comments” stuff, as our esteemed President would say “is hard work!” ;)

Okay, guess I have to forgive you (see my 113), and assume you just didn’t notice. No hard feelings, huh?

But..and I hesitate to dip my toe in here…I just had a flash of that feeling I get at a meeting when I (or another woman) suggest something, am ignored, and a guy later suggests the same thing and gets fulsome praise for his original idea. Ummm, gawd, I kinda hate to bring it up, but…you thanked the two guys who pointed out the Krugman/Kristof error several posts after I pointed it out, early in the thread. Didja notice?