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The White Male Vote Swung the Democratic
Race
The 16-month Hillary-palooza has finally gone bust.
Her website bravely instructs us to “Support
Senator Obama Today.” Mrs. Clinton’s
staff has been pared down to a skeleton crew. And
she’s finally getting around to paying off the
health insurance bills.
But Hillary’s campaign wasn’t a
presidential nomination effort in the usual sense.
It was a massive exercise in feminist
consciousness-raising foisted on an unsuspecting
American public.
Take Clinton’s June 7 concession speech
that was billed as an endorsement of rival Barack
Obama. In reality it was a neo-Marxist rant lightly
disguised as a feminist pep talk.
Hillary regurgitated her demand that women
receive “equal pay” -- slyly omitting the
words “even though they choose to work fewer
hours at jobs that are less likely to maim and
kill.” Mrs. Clinton also saw fit to blame her
defeat on “unconscious” sex biases that
had created the “highest, hardest glass
ceiling.”
That hard-edged rhetoric is one of the reasons
why Hillary lost the race.
Let’s look at the votes. While Barack Obama
had a lock on the African-American vote, Hillary
Clinton rallied the support of white women. The
Black and white female vote basically offset each
other.
So which group was the tie-breaker?
In states with exit polls, Barack Obama enjoyed
17 primary victories. In only four states did a
plurality of white female voters support him: Iowa,
Illinois, Vermont, and Oregon. [www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21660890
 ]
But in 10 states, Mr. Obama took the white male
vote: Iowa, Illinois, Vermont, and Oregon, plus
Virginia, Wisconsin, Maryland, Connecticut, Utah,
and Georgia.
The significance of that result is amplified by
the fact that white men represent a smaller
fraction of the electorate. For example in
Illinois, white males compose 23% of the Democratic
electorate, compared to 34% who are white
females.
So in nearly 60% of Obama’s victories, the
smaller number of white men, weary of
Hillary’s girl-power riffs, came together to
overcome the larger but splintered female vote.
After she conceded the race, the true-believers
in the feminist Nirvana came out to genuflect at
Mrs. Clinton’s altar, lauding how her campaign
had shattered gender myths and barriers. But in
truth, Mrs. Clinton only crystallized the worst
stereotypes about the Sisterhood:
1. Feminists are devious. Long-time Clinton
confidante Dick Morris once wrote, “Bill lies
about sex, Hillary lies about everything.”
From her fairytale that “women were routinely
excluded from major clinical trials” to the
bullets-in-Bosnia brouhaha, Hillary Clinton has a
nearly congenital tendency to disregard the
truth.
2. Feminists love to blame men. When her defeat
became undeniable, Hillary cast about for
explanations, eventually deriding the nation’s
alleged epidemic of sexism as “deeply
offensive to millions of women.” But what
about Hillary’s sexist caricatures of men?
3. Feminists don’t accept responsibility
for their failures. How many times do you remember
Mrs. Clinton saying, “I’m sorry”
over the past year and a half? If you scan
Hillary’s June 8 endorsement speech, she never
hints at the many miscalculations and missteps of
her campaign.
4. Feminists are arrogant. Recall Hillary’s
famous promise, “We’re going to take
things away from you on behalf of the common
good”? Remember the aura of inevitability that
she exuded during the early months of her campaign?
5. Feminists are self-possessed narcissists. As
a college student, Hillary once confided that she
had “not yet reconciled myself to the fate of
not being the star,” adding that as a child
she used to “pretend there were heavenly movie
cameras watching my every move.” Does anyone
doubt that Hillary believes her rightful place in
the world is at the center of the universe?
6. Feminists can become very abusive. I have
previously documented Hillary’s foul ways:
www.renewamerica.us/columns/roberts/070408
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On the day that Bill was inaugurated as President,
Hillary was informed she wouldn’t be moving
into the vice-president’s office, prompting
this rebuke: “G*d d*mn it, Bill, you promised
me that office!”
Once again, Hillary didn’t get her way.
Heaven help us from a candidate scorned.
© 2008, Carey
Roberts
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Carey
Roberts probes and lampoons political correctness.
His work has been published frequently in the
Washington Times, Townhall.com, LewRockwell.com,
ifeminists.net, Intellectual Conservative, and
elsewhere. He is a staff reporter for the New Media
Network. You can contact him at E-Mail
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