Reply #32: Absolutely! [View All]

[TheDoorbellRang]

I feel pretty confident in saying that there's not a Hillary supporter on DU that is voting for her just because she's a woman, nor an Obama supporter voting for him just because he's ethnically mixed. Even tho we may disagree in our personal choice for a candidate, by God we've all got cogent reasons why we support one or the other. The media demeans all of us with these broad (pun intended) generalizations. I am not a woman voting for a woman or an African American, I am a voter voting for the candidate I feel to be best qualified.

Reading this reminded me of a political discussion I remember overhearing in my youth. Remember Warren Harding, he of the Teapot Dome scandal? Some of my older relatives were discussing it, and one said that of course he was elected shortly after women got the vote, and all the women had voted for him because he was so good-looking -- underlying message was that women were just too frivolous to vote. So here we are almost 100 years later, and again we have the assumption by the media that women don't think deeply about their choice of candidate. It's beyond irritating.