csapn 2 NOW. post election coverage Women's vote made a difference

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Eleanor Smeal wrote:

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> Tune in for LIVE coverage on CSPAN-2.
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> Join Eleanor Smeal and other women's rights leaders as they provide post-election analysis.
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> TODAY
> 12 noon (EST)
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> CSPAN-2.
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> Dear xxxx,
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> We have been pouring over the exit polls, and on ballot initiatives across the country, the women's vote was significant. Today, at 12 noon (EST), I will be joining other women's rights leaders for a press conference, sharing our post-election analysis on women voters, women's issues, and women leaders. Tune in on CSPAN-2 for live coverage!
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> Join us today as we discuss:
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> * 2006 - The Year of the Woman Leader;
> * The Results of the Ms. Magazine/Women Donors Network Exit Polls;
> * The Gender Gap's Role in the Election Outcome;
> * Women's Priorities at the Polls; and
> * Women Leaders, Women's Issues, and the Next Agenda
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> Feminist Majority Foundation Campus Director Crystal Lander will join me this afternoon to speak about our nationwide Get Out Her Vote effort on college campuses to register and mobilize young women to vote. Young voters increased their participation this year by 24 percent since the last midterm election in 2002. Also joining me will be Kim Gandy (President, National Organization for Women), Lorraine Cole (YWCA, Chief Executive Officer), E. Faye Williams (Chair, National Congress of Black Women), Martha Burk (Director, National Council of Women's Organizations), and Denise Baer (President, Strategic Research Concepts).
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> Tune in and learn more!
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> For Women's Rights and Lives,
> Eleanor Smeal
> Feminist Majority Foundation, President
> Ms. magazine, Publisher
>

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1. I'm watching!

[AndyA]

2. I'm glad women got out and voted.

With the government attempting to take away their rights, no group needs to take a stand more. You go, girls!! :thumbsup:

[Cerridwen]

3. "We have to have a talk with our brothers..." :D.........n/t

[Bitwit1234]

4. Couldn't understand anyway

How could any woman...looking at bush vote for him. He is the most uncharismatic person I have ever seen. If you did not know who he was you would pass him on the street without a backward glance , or foreword for that matter glance.

[Cerridwen]

6. Charisma? I can think of many reasons not to vote for bush...

personality or lack thereof is waaaaaaaaay down the list.

I would hope, though I do not agree with most of them, that repub women are at least as concerned with their issues as I am with mine and that issues take precedence over personality.

Please tell me women (and men) are somewhat more sophisticated about their vote than simply picking the personality over the issues.

[Cerridwen]

5. "When women vote...women win...and the nation wins"...n/t

[Donna Zen]

7. Weird...I wonder if they'll notice

The moves and language of the Democratic party of late tells me that they would throw us out of the boat. And now this latest round of the DC insiders spewing all over my TV that the mid-term vote proved that Dems are conservative.

[Cerridwen]

8. Problems with voting equipment and poll workers....n/t

[Cerridwen]

9. 2 Million more young people voted....n/t