During this week's episode the round table discussed the impact of women on this election. Using points that were spoken about what is the importance of the vote for women and what is there impact going to be on this election. Be Specific and use quotes from the show.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
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The Obama campaign is spending the entire week focus on equal pay ads to try to get women that are undecided. "Sarah Palin stultifies blue collar male vote than blue collar female." Though Sarah Palin isn't Hillary Clinton, Palin is aiming for those blue collar votes that Clinton had lost. "Two blue collar both genders are what Republicans are after."
Republicans are worried to separate Palin from McCain because he will draw in fewer people. "Sarah Palin has given lots of energy to the republican party and moved women voters." Women votes may change between the hard core Republicans or liberal Democrats. Both parties are hitting hard to sway the women votes because both sides have women ideals. Clinton followers won't follow Palin because she is a women, but may follow Palin because of the blue collar ideas. The importance of having votes from women, is that the Democratic will be able to have Hillary supporters votes secured or Republicans getting more votes for McCain's campaign.
The women votes for this years upcoming election are indeed very important. When Hilary Clinton was campaigning against Obama for the Democratic Presidential nominee position she had many women followers both because she has views that are liked by many, and because she is a woman herself. Once Obama was chosen as the Democratic presidential nominee, Hilary encouraged her followers to support him. After Sarah Palin was chosen by McCain as the Republican Vice Presidential nominee the focus started to lean more her way because she is a woman.
George Stephanopoulos spoke with George Will, Paul Begala, Claire Shipman, and Jay Carney at the round table. Stephanopolis stated that Palin has had a huge move on women voters, but Begala believes that Palin will not get many of Hilary's supporters. He said, "The profile of a Hilary diehard is not the profile of a Palin diehard." On the other hand, Shipman believes that Palin has gained many of Hilary's supporters. She talked about how Obama is going to dedicate an entire week to "pull back women they think have slipped." Obama will be releasing a new "equal pay" add, buying time on women's networks, and Michelle Obama will be attending certain events. These are obviously aimed towards women to try to get their support.
This is the first election where a woman as attempted to run for president, and the first time a woman has been chosen as a vice presidential nominee. With this, women are definately paying attention because they are finally being noticed and represented.
Sarah Palin has convinced many women that are democratic to change parties. She is looking for those woman who had hilary's vote and convincing them that McCain is better canidate for president than Obama. McCain has a woman by his side and she can make things happen for those women who never get a chance as president she will be the vice president and make a difference to this country. Obama has not been paying attention to what really is important, ecxept making ads for women to vote for his democratic party and convince them not to vote McCain.
Many say that they are not following Sarah Palin for being a woman but for the blue collar ideas she has. For some women it could be true but for some could be voting for her because she has a powerful seat in the campaign and could make a difference in the future. But I believe the only way to find out if she will make a difference if McCain is elected President and she has a good role or if Obama wins and actually makes a difference for this country even if he is a color man.
Since Obama won the Democratic Presidental nominee over Hilary Clinton, he has more pressure on getting the female vote. McCain thought he made a strategic move when he invited Sarah Palin to run along with him for vice president, but the truth of the matter is Palin and Clinton are nothing alike. They both have different opinions on global warming. George Will quoted that Palin did a horrible job on the Bush questionnaires. She had little to no knowledge on what was going on. Jay Carney believe tone matters more than substances. I completely agree with Carney when he said that Palin did poorly, knowing she knew little to no information about the Bush document. All the attention was taken away from McCain and was focused more on Palin, I believe that is a bad move, because we need to know more about our possible future president rather that Palin.
Meanwhile the Democratic s are scheduling more events so Michelle Obama is able to talk about her issues. They are really trying to get the strong female votes. The democrats want to help the middle class. Rather than McCain is isn't familiar with helping the middle class at all.
ariel:
I completely agree with you ariel. They should be spending more time trying to get the women vote because that is where the voting process lacks. They should be hitting hard to right to vote because 60 years ago women didn't have the right to vote. Now that us women have the right we should take full advantage of such great honor. Only difference is Palin and Clinton don't agree on much of the same things. People will have to seek in to see which nominee is better, an Obama supporter or Palin.
to amber:
I agree with you when people are starting to lean more towards Palin simply because she is a woman. That is not the way anyone should base their votes on. The majority of Hilary's ideas are clearly not the same as Palin's. As you said, this election is a very important one because it is the first time a woman or and African American has a high possibility of being nominated as a president of a vice president. It shows how far we have come as a country. =]
Re: Amber
I agree that women are now focusing on the upcoming election because of two women have changed history; however I don't agree that Hillary Clinton's supporters will support Sarah Palin just because she is a women. Sarah Palin may have got attention from women voter but that does not guarantee that they will follow Palin. Palin probably has more votes from male voters but not so much from female voters. Clinton and Palin both have different ideas to contribute to the White House, so women shouldn't vote just because one of them are on the ballot.
Re:Ariel
I agree that both parties are working hard to earning the women's votes for this election. Funny how in pass elections women votes didn't matter as much as now. I feel offended when people assume that all women will gather on one party because of the same gender. Its ridiculous ! Women are very smart and will not be so stupid into voting for a women because they share the same sex. With a country so diverse I would expect mix genders and race with different opinions and values. Altogether women's votes are of course important, all votes are equally important. I feel that mothers have a lot of reason to vote, equal pay opportunities, lowering gas prices so they can drop off kids at school and go to work, affordable education/college for their kids, house mortgage being affordable, cheaper groceries, cleaner environment for the kids to play in, sons or husbands over war, and so much more. So basically women are really important and should vote for important issues not because the person they are voting for has a vagina.
Re: Jessica
I agree with you when you say that Palin and Clinton are nothing alike. They really aren't. So, if McCain believed that choosing Palin as his vice-president would represent female voters, he is wrong. I also agree that the media is putting too much focus on Palin and too little on McCain. She's not the one who's running for president, McCain is. I think Obama is doing a great job in his campaigning because if compared to McCain and even Palin, they focus too much on irrelevant matters. Obama is strict on change and makes his opinions known.
Ryan Del Rosario
re: Ariel
I totally agree with what you're saying because women had finally gotten their right to vote and now the Presidential nominees are going to take advantage of that. I think that it would be a smart tactic to lead Palin away from McCain just to see how bad things could get. We need to test how well they can work on their own if one isn't there.
Re: Amber
I agree with what you said because a lot of the women will vote on the person that has the same views as them. Sometimes this could be a tough situation for males but with the help of a female VP or even a first lady, the views of them women aren’t that hard to see. I think that the followers of Clinton were swayed to vote for Obama was because Clinton gave him advice and helped him to see more into what women want and need. Male votes are important but it’s the females votes that may have more of an impact on the campaign.
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