The PAC WomenCount has purchased ad space in USA Today, Thursday, May 15, and in this Sunday's New York Times as well as two newspapers in Oregon to set the record straight. The ad, "Not So Fast," emphasizes that Clinton is still very much in this race.
Here are the numbers from the NY Times website politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/results/votes/index.html
The total primary votes are: Clinton, 17,492,003; Obama, 17,181, 783. Clinton leads in the popular vote in primary states by 310,220. Only 521,630 people voted in all caucus states combined! Obama's caucus lead is 248,317. If you add the caucus and primary votes, Clinton leads by 61,903. This number includes the popular vote in Florida, votes that were registered by the Secretary of State and cannot be voided. There you have it.
Why, then, has the media pronounced that the race is over? Why have several male leaders of the Democratic party asked Clinton to drop out? This is an outrage. Gee, no one demanded that Edward Kennedy drop out against Jimmy Carter even though he had only 795 pledged delegates.
Women are organizing to address the blatant sexism at work here. A group from Massachusetts, Massachusetts Women Democratic Leaders, met with Senators Kennedy and Kerry and with Howard Dean. They asked Dean to show some leadership and address the misogynistic attacks on one of the leading Democratic candidates. I went to a meeting on Monday to discuss where we go from here and heard several women who attended the meeting with Dean talk about his unwillingess to do anything to address the concerns of women in the Democratic party. The DNC is going to pay a price for allowing the punditry to hand the nomination to Obama. Dean did not win any friends when he stated that he finally understood women's concerns when two of his staff burst into tears. I guess we have to cry to get attention.
According to one person at the meeting, women have been tearing up their voter registration cards and sending them to the DNC. I might do the same. This isn't over.
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Wow. That is a powerful post. I am interested to see what happens the next few weeks...they should be very telling. I am so proud of you for keeping up with your blog! It is a great example of 21st century avenues of expression and commentary. Oh, by the way, I have listed your blog on my blog...a very bloggy thing to do. You are first under "My friends with Blogs" catagory. Take care and keep it up!
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