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Thursday, March 15, 2012
If You're a Woman, Here's How Healthcare Reform Helps You
http://www.healthcare.gov/news/factsheets/2011/08/women.html
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012
2012 Election Decision Tree
Courtesy of the good people at MoveOn.org.
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Saturday, March 3, 2012
Really? Really?
Some smart person has made a great graphic out of the now legendary SNL piece on Weekend Update from a few weeks ago -- the one about the Virginia transvaginal ultrasound bill. As the great Amy Pohler says, "I have so many miles on transvaginal, I always get upgraded to lady business."
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Santorum to Women: Don't You Worry Your Pretty Little Heads about Birth Control
Rick Santorum is a wanker. A Tool. An Asshat. A very, very dangerous person living in a time warp. A sanctimonious right-wing nut job who gives Republicans a bad name, and Democrats a win in November. GO RICK!
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Friday, February 24, 2012
Millenials Could be the Difference in 2012 Elections
In the last four national elections, generational differences have mattered more than they have in decades. According to the exit polls, younger people have voted substantially more Democratic than other age groups in each election since 2004, while older voters have cast more ballots for Republican candidates in each election since 2006.
The latest national polls suggest this pattern may well continue in 2012. Millennial Generation voters are inclined to back Barack Obama for reelection by a wide margin in a match-up against Mitt Romney, the GOP candidate who has run the strongest versus Obama in many polls. In contrast, the oldest voters -- the Silent Generation -- are solidly behind Romney.
In between the youngest and the oldest voters are the Baby Boom generation and Generation X. Both groups are less supportive of Obama than they were in 2008 and are now on the fence with respect to a second term for the president. These, my friends, are the swing voters...the mushy middle the parties will fight 'til the death to get to the polls.
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Look at Those Feet!
I really want a pet. Really, I want a dog, but a cat would probably be more sensible. Sigh.
Fuck sensible!! I want a DOG!! Look at this little guy!! Look at those feet! Can't you just smell the puppy goodness?? 
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Monday, February 20, 2012
An Appropriate Response to GOP's All-Male Hearing on Women's Contraception
Last week, Rep. Darrel Issa held a Government Reform and Oversight Committee hearing on the contraception controversy. The good chairman, however, did not see the need to invite any WOMEN to talk about health care and birth control. The Democrats had a young woman witness selected, a student at Georgetown University who uses the Pill for health reasons additional to contraception. Chairman Issa would not allow her to testify. Instead he accepted a panel of men, all opposed to the Obama Administration's new rule, and those men testified against women's access to contraception. Talk about tone deaf. And insulting. And downright stupid. The GOP's concentration on taking away women's contraception is already galvanizing women voters, and will continue to do so through Election Day.
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Sunday, February 19, 2012
It's All About Lilly: Join Women for Obama
Probably one of the best campaign videos I have ever seen. Of course, they had an amazing subject in the great Lilly Ledbetter.
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Friday, February 17, 2012
Unmarried Women Flocking to Obama: Gee, I Wonder Why?
A Republican/Libertarian friend told me this week that we progressives need to get back on message and talk about jobs and the economy. I told him that HIS troops are the ones that need to be back on that message. As for me, I'm quite happy to talk about birth control (and the insanity of the GOP's quest to take it away from women) from now until November. This shit is working for me and my peeps, thanks. And here's why --
Democracy Corps has just published an important polling memo that gets right to the heart of why the birth control battle could matter so much in this year’s elections.
The firm’s poll finds that one of the most important factors powering Obama’s gains against likely GOP nominee Mitt Romney has been the president’s improving numbers among unmarried women -- a critical part of the present and future Democratic coalition.
Among this group, Obama now leads Romney by 65-30 -- and there’s been a net, a whopping 18-point swing towards the President among them in the past month. Color me unsurprised. 
After unmarried women dropped off for Dems in 2010 and were slow to return to the Dem fold in 2011, Obama is now approaching the 70 percent he won among them in 2008. If Dems play this right, it could encourage the perception that the GOP is backward-looking and lost in a social-issues wilderness, perhaps hastening the already widening gender gap that will be so crucial to the outcome this fall.
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
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