According to a weekend CNN-WMUR poll in New Hampshire, Sen. Bernie Sanders leads former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by eight percentage points.
Among women.
“Hillary Clinton’s quest to become the country’s first female president has encountered an unexpected problem,” begins a Washington Post report on Hillary’s “trouble persuading women, young and old, to rally behind her cause.”
Younger women seem to pose the biggest “problem.” The latest Wall Street Journal/NBC/Marist College poll of New Hampshire Democrats found Mrs. Clinton nine points ahead of Sen. Sanders among women 45 and over. But Sanders bests Clinton by a remarkable 29 percentage points with women under 45 years of age.
Not to worry, the faces of establishment feminism have been mobilized. Madeleine Albright, appointed to be the first woman Secretary of State in 1997 by then-Pres. Bill Clinton, stood at a Granite State rally with Hillary to shout, “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.”
Persuasive?
On his HBO show, comedian Bill Maher asked feminist icon Gloria Steinem to explain why younger women “really don’t like Hillary.” Ms. Steinem postulated, “When you’re young, you’re thinking: ‘Where are the boys? The boys are with Bernie,’”
In her subsequent Facebook “apology,” Steinem claimed she “misspoke” and had “been misinterpreted as implying young women aren’t serious in their politics.”
Imagine that.
Dana Edell, the leader of an “anti-racist gender justice advocacy group,” offers a less controversial explanation. “While the historic aspect of the first woman president is hugely powerful and important,” she told the Old Gray Lady, Hillary Clinton “might not be the right first woman.”
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4 replies on “War on Young Women”
Prejudice, factorization, and emotionalism — you would think there would be better reasons to support on candidate over another.
I do not understand the foolishness — with the super-delegate system of the Democrats Ms. Clinton is a lock, if she is not locked up.
Let someone ask Ms. Albright: and what did you do to help Hillary Clinton function as Secretary of State? That was when you could have accomplished something. Maybe that ‘special place’ has your name on it for not helping Hillary before she made a mess of US foreign policy.
Great point, Pat.
Pat’s comment only works if the two SoS’s believe the present foreign policy is a mess. I have not seen either of them indicate that might be their opinion.