Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Clinton Targets Elderly
Senator Clinton has geared her campaign toward women who were born before the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920. Elderly woman have become set pieces at Clinton's political events in Iowa. These woman are "visibly demonstrating the candidate’s effort to highlight her sex and her overtures to female voters, whom the campaign is counting on to propel her to the Democratic presidential nomination." Many woman of younger generations have shown great enthusiasm in Clinton's campaign; however, Clinton shows great pride in her elderly supporters by spending extra time speaking with them and sharing their stories with her audiences. According to some polls, Obama and Clinton are running even among women voters, so it seems as if Clinton is hoping to pull out ahead by gaining support of the older women of the state who may feel a connection to her because of gender.
I also remember Dr. Davis talking about how some older women absolutely refuse to even consider her as a candidate..they came from the time when that was totally not an option and was totally shocking..Dr. Davis also said it may serve to sort invalidate their choice to stay home and lead domestic lives because she's doing "so much more" It's interesting to see the gender and race issues play out
ReplyDeleteThis election is becoming way too feminist for me...it needs to be less about the fact that it is empowering for women and more about who is most qualified to lead the country, regardless of sex.
ReplyDeleteWe cannot have the first election to have a female front-runner not have feminist tones. There is still sexism, and this is a great way to bring it farther to the front of people's minds.
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