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2/6/2016

Hillary Clinton Is Losing The Support Of Young Women. Is It Any Surprise?

Filed under: General — Dana @ 4:49 pm



[guest post by Dana]

Iconic feminist and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is losing the support of young feminists everywhere. These young women just don’t seem to be sold on the Hillary Bill of goods. Instead, in a most amusing twist of irony, out of the two candidates on the left, young female voters see the angry old white guy as their feminist champion.

Poor Hillary. Instead of being seen as a fighter and champion for women’s rights and justice, she is now viewed as little more than an “overcautious mother”. Is there any greater kiss of death?

“I am excited for a future in which we will have a female president, but I don’t think Hillary is that person for this generation,” said Rachael Jennings, 28, a high school teacher in Dublin, N.H. The same sentiment was echoed over and over in interviews with younger female voters here and in Iowa.

These progressive voters instead see as their champion a man – a 74-year-old democratic socialist, at that. Sanders is all the rage for now.

“Young women cannot remember a time that Hillary was not a household name, and it confuses them what she stands for,” said Nichola Gutgold, a professor of communication arts and sciences at Penn State, who wrote a book, “Almost Madam President,” about Clinton’s 2008 quest for the nomination. “Rejecting her is a way of rejecting the establishment.”

Claiming that Hillary Clinton represents the establishment is something that Clinton rejects. Because she is a woman. Huh? Because she is a woman, she obviously cannot be the establishment…but apparently she can be sexist:

SANDERS: So, Rachel, yes, Secretary Clinton does represent the establishment. I represent, I hope, ordinary Americans, and by the way — who are not all that enamored with the establishment. But I am very proud to have people like Keith Ellison and Raul Grijalva in the House, the co-chairmen of the House Progressive Caucus.

MADDOW: Secretary.

CLINTON: Well, look, I’ve got to just jump in here because, honestly, Sen. Sanders is the only person who I think would characterize me, a woman running to be the first woman president, as exemplifying the establishment. And I’ve got to tell you that it is …

It is really quite amusing to me.

You know what’s amusing to me? It’s that you can always count on feminists to shamelessly play gender politics, especially with something as important as selecting the next president of the United States:

“Albright on women who might not vote for Clinton: “there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other”

So much for the independent thinking woman who believes she has a responsibility to actually sort through the policies and positions of anyone hoping to become the next leader of our nation. Oh don’t worry your pretty little head about something as icky as *thinking*.

In spite of the given explanations for young feminists rejecting Clinton, I am going to suggest that the real reason is something far less complex, and instead one that simply speaks to the complete and utter fear of young vibrant women who happened to catch a fleeting glimpse of their collective post-menopausal futures:

Open Thread: GOP Debate

–Dana

10 Responses to “Hillary Clinton Is Losing The Support Of Young Women. Is It Any Surprise?”

  1. Nice observations, Dana. Here are couple of things I have been thinking about:

    John Hinderaker had a post yesterday in which he referred to Hillary! as “elderly.” It had never occurred to me to use that word — I was stuck on the plain adjective “old” — but it turns out that it is absolutely perfect. It somehow connotes not just a accumulation of years, but a general attitude too. Mrs. Clinton derives her support largely from middle-aged and elderly women, who despite their penchant for complaining about their supposed marginalization are actually a pretty potent bloc both financially and politically. I can’t wait for the South Carolina primary, because I think that we are bound to find out that other than SEIU members and other public employee drones, Hilary! has very, very limited appeal to black men. I wonder if she will draw as much as half the number of votes among black males in South Carolina that Obama did in 2008.

    There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women — you know, other women like Monica Lewinsky, Kathleen Willey, Juanita Broaddrick, Paula Jones, etc.

    JVW (d60453)

  2. And Bernard Sanders can absolutely be described as elderly too.

    JVW (d60453)

  3. Poor Hillary. She’s old of course. And worse yet, people now see her as just part of the same old, same old. The lady just can’t catch a break. Of course if she were on fire, I wouldn’t throw a bucket of water on her–so I’ll not weep any tears for her.

    Comanche Voter (1d5c8b)

  4. Paula Jones was on one of those “entertainment”, pseudo-news shows telling about Hillary! and the bimbo eruption unit of the 1992 Clinton campaign. Oddly, I didn’t see anything about this interview on the MSM.

    The link associated with the Albright comment in the post above contains some interesting comments regarding how the “women supporting women” does apparently extend across aisles to people like Carly or Sarah… let alone to Slick Willie’s victims. They should have at least rallied to get Carly on that stage tonight.

    Gramps (6a37e4)

  5. Oops. *does NOT* extend….

    Gramps (6a37e4)

  6. Greetings:

    Well, Hillary trotted out the seriously aging and balding former Secretary of State Madeline Albright whichwasn;t an aesthetic I desired but is certainly not so bad as watching former Congressperson Gabby Gifford dribbling all over herself why her noble husband pulls her strings. I have to wonder how many “young women” even know who Albright is/was.

    11B40 (6abb5c)

  7. Rodham is EL FINITO. That is in respect to those of you who are CORONA beer alcoholics.
    Rodham is done. I certainly hope Rodham is not given a pardon, because, she has done enormous damage to our countries Security. Not that anyone gives a flying fart at a rolling donut anymore.
    What happened to us??

    Gus (a084f0)

  8. if Hillary does half as much for women as food stamp did for blacks

    they might as well vote for Bernie

    happyfeet (831175)

  9. Elderly is an OK description for Hillery, but portly also has its merits.

    ropelight (ec3b5e)

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