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 | By Molly Snyder Edler   OnMilwaukee.com Staff Writer E-mail author | Author bio More articles by Molly Snyder Edler |
| Published Feb. 6, 2008 at 12:21 p.m. |
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For the first time, my husband and I aren't voting for the same presidential candidate. We are officially "canceling out" each other's vote. My husband was on the fence for a while, but after yesterday's primary elections, he made a decision. And it's not the same as mine.
I remember my grandma telling me that my grandpa didn't speak to her for a week after she voted for John F. Kennedy instead of Richard Nixon in the 1960 election. She said she planned to vote for Nixon, but when she was alone in the voting booth, she simply had to vote for a Catholic.
I can relate. I, too, must vote for my own.
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Posted by sandstorm on Feb. 8, 2008 at 11:22 a.m. (report)
because chateau, there is no substance to your rant. "If I am wrong, there are still millions of women who plan on voting for Clinton only because she is a woman." prove this idiotic statement and we'll talk. i know a lot more women who despise hillary than plan on voting for her, and those that plan on voting for her seem to have the same valid reasons that men i know have for voting for her. sounds like you have issues with women in general to me
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Posted by ChateauDweller on Feb. 7, 2008 at 1:58 p.m. (report)
Why not comment on the substance of my argument instead of trying to distinguish it with an unlikely assumption? If I was wrong and she meant "my own" to be a Mormon, Vietnam vet, or African American from IL, I apologize and concede that my comment should not be directed to her. If I am wrong, there are still millions of women who plan on voting for Clinton only because she is a woman. Don't you think our vote should be based on a bit more than that? If woman and men all want to be treated equal, gender should not be considered. Your contempt for my argument would fall apart if I was criticizing someone for not voting for Hillary because she is a woman. You can't have it both ways. "I want equal rights" does not jive with "I'm voting for my own, because she is my own." A woman president will not break the glass ceiling and it will not make the old boys network realize the errors of their ways. Moral victories and feel-good votes wont change anything. Women could do much more to equalize notions of gender by continuing to show, through your actions, that gender discrimination is stupid
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Posted by sandstorm on Feb. 7, 2008 at 1:02 p.m. (report)
mambo's right. she never once states she's voting for Hillary, so why the assumption? she could mean a hundred different things by "my own".
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Posted by yp_mkegrl on Feb. 7, 2008 at 11:50 a.m. (report)
well said mambo!
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Posted by mambo on Feb. 7, 2008 at 11:09 a.m. (report)
My guess is that each of you is taking this blog way too literally. The blogger surely isn't seriously suggesting that she will cancel out her husband's vote. Also, have any of you considered that, when she says that she has to vote for "her own", she's talking about her choice of candidate rather than her gender?
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