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dataguyx,
that's good to know. But if you want Obama to win, take an index card and write on it "be respectful of women" and carry it around with you from now until election day. Maybe carry it around after election day as well.
Why? Because women are 60% of Democratic voters and we need them to win.
Why? A better reason--because women deserve respect. Women who are your age, chances are they have gone through some discrimination in their lifetimes from lack of promotion at work, to not being paid the same as their male coworkers. When you make remarks about big girl panties, although you are angry at a particular group of women (who may be McCain lovers to begin with if what some are saying is true...) it reminds every woman--myself included-- of the men who have made similar, gender-insensitive remarks. It's not helping.
The Democratic Party cannot win without the hearts and the minds of women. Bottom line. And there are more women in the party than men--please write that index card & keep it on your person at all times. It could make a difference in helping Obama to win.
And it's the least you can do for our party.
