{"id":1993,"date":"2008-01-21T07:27:49","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T12:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1993"},"modified":"2008-01-21T07:27:49","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T12:27:49","slug":"the-tiny-tent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1993","title":{"rendered":"The Tiny Tent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a phenomenon I&#8217;ve long found perplexing; otherwise-smart women who, when the subject is politics, will always vote for the woman first.\u00a0 Or, should I say, &#8220;always&#8221; vote for the female candidate, since they are frequently women who grunt and roll their eyes when the likes of Margaret Thatcher or Condi Rice are mentioned; what they mean, naturally, is liberal women.<\/p>\n<p>Oprah endorsed Obie.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/us_and_americas\/us_elections\/article3216586.ece\">And it&#8217;s ruffling some of that same wad of feathers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yet a backlash by Clinton supporters appears to have prompted a rethink by Winfrey, the African-American media titan who is routinely described as the most influential woman on television&#8230;a reader called austaz68 said she \u201ccannot believe that women all over this country are not up in arms over Oprah\u2019s backing of Obama. For the first time in history we actually have a shot at putting a woman in the White House and Oprah backs the black MAN. She\u2019s choosing her race over her gender.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve met people &#8211; most of them women &#8211; who literally say, in as many words, they vote for women first, regardless of their policies.\u00a0 Of course, most of these people are in Saint Paul, where the only real choice in politicians is &#8220;liberal&#8221; or &#8220;more liberal&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a phenomenon I&#8217;ve long found perplexing; otherwise-smart women who, when the subject is politics, will always vote for the woman first.\u00a0 Or, should I say, &#8220;always&#8221; vote for the female candidate, since they are frequently women who grunt and roll their eyes when the likes of Margaret Thatcher or Condi Rice are mentioned; what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-media","category-men-and-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}