Women in Politics

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/usa_politics_feminists_dc;_ylt=Agu.rozNWXxEpWJG1u9GSWnkbeRF

This was a really interesting article. It raises some really good questions about clinton and her presidential bid. Not only her, but also obama, who also will inevitably, (my guess) come to represent an underrepresented group. The aricle discusses how many of the womens' rights organizations are cautious about endorsing Clinton simply because she is a woman. Organizations like NOW point out that they want the best champion for womens' rights and if that happens to be women, that is nirvana. The bigger issue I am interested in is, when it comes down to the average voter, who, in my experience, seems to vote on passion and emotion issues like religion and personality, as opposed to good policy, will that hold true. I would assume, maybe incorrectly, that based on the most elementary of associations, that clinton will have the female vote. Haha, but this is the thing, that would mean that Obama has the black vote right? WRong. He doesn't, at least according to the poles. So does that mean people vote based on policy and not just on skin, gender or other shallow and unsubstantial characteristics? I don't know. This is really confusing. If people criticize voters for voting on their passions and not the issues, why don't Clinton and Obama make sense? Why are their, "safe bets," not safe bets? You can assume christians want a christian in the white house because that person sees life the same way or because you can assume that they share certain values. Why isn't that true of race and gender? Regardless of who you are as a person, if you were black during the reconstruction period, you'd face jim crow in the south and if you were a woman before 1920, you couldn't vote. There has to be some level or community there. Maybe I am over simplifying gender and race. I dunno, its a peculiar situation. Clinton and Obama will represent their respective groups politically even if their respective groups don't want them to or they themselves don't want to. So much of choices in democracy.


I don't mean to be apathetic, i really do hope things turn out for the best.