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Why Time’s ‘Person of the Year’ should be the Democratic woman
Posted on December 4, 2018 Leave a Comment
Each December, Time magazine announces its Person of the Year. It’s the individual (or group) who, “for better or for worse,” as the magazine puts it, had the greatest influence on the events of the year. This year, it should be no contest. The greatest influence in America this year came from Democratic women. They […]
#Midterms2018: Women are ready to win the fight
Posted on November 6, 2018 1 Comment
Ever since November 2016, women in this country have learned what it really means to be resilient. That resiliency started with multiple protests post-election, with large crowds chanting that “Love Trumps Hate.” It came to a crescendo with two Women’s Marches a year apart, both numbering several million participants in cities and towns, large and […]
2018 voting gender gap is becoming an abyss
Posted on October 16, 2018 Leave a Comment
The figures are stunning, but they’re really not surprising. The energy of women voters to turn out in this year’s midterm elections has been building since November of 2016. There have now been a few polls conducted after the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court — a move that was supposed to make […]
Voting gender gap may be a chasm if GOP rams Kavanaugh onto Supreme Court
Posted on September 25, 2018 Leave a Comment
As Donald Trump and the Republican men of the Senate Judiciary Committee (and it’s a men-only club for the GOP) downplay the credible claims of Brett Kavanaugh’s alleged sexual assault of Christine Blasey Ford when they were teens, they might be feeling smug that they’re getting away with something. But women in this country aren’t […]
