Scores are based on candidates' responses to position papers, as well as voting records.
McClain:
Abortion:
NARAL, Planned Parenthood, and the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association gave him a grade of zero.
Women's Issues:
NOW gave him a grade of 13.
American Association of University Women gave him a grade of 20.
Children's Issues:
The Children's Defense Fund gave him a grade of 10
Education:
The National Education Association gave him a grade of F
ClintonAbortion:
NARAL, Planned Parenthood, National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association, grade 100
Women's Issues:
NOW, 91
American Association of University Women, 90.
Children's Issues:
The Children's Defense Fund gave him a grade of 100
Education:
The National Education Association, grade A
ObamaAbortion:
NARAL, Planned Parenthood, grade 100
National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association, grade 93
Women's Issues:
NOW, 96
American Association of University Women, 100.
Children's Issues:
The Children's Defense Fund gave him a grade of 90
Education:
The National Education Association, grade A
Now I want a Hillary supporter that claims she will vote for McCain instead on Obama to explain to me why you would cut off your own nose to spite your face? Obama and Clinton share similar voting records, and have similar beliefs and policies. They have equally high ratings on the issues that Hillary supporters claim are important to them. Yet there are people, women mostly, that swear they would rather vote for McCain than Obama. I DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS.
Why would you vote for a man who, based on his own voting recorded and stated positions, does not support any of the things that are important to you? All the rhetoric and slogans aside, when you look at the hard voting records of all of the candidates, why would you make a conscious decision to vote for a person who is for all intends and purposes directly opposed to everything your favorite candidate believes in?
I would think that if you were a true Hillary supporter, your concern would not be over wounded pride, but making sure Hillary's programs are pushed through. Obama shares a lot of her beliefs, and if elected to the White House Hillary would obviously have a lot of influence in Washington. Why, in the name of all that is good and holy, would you disrespect everything she believes in by voting for a man who supports the polar opposite of her agenda?
So what is it, spite? Sure, that is a mature, pro-woman way of handling it. "I'll show those Democratic leaders. I'll vote a Republican into office that wants to strip me of my reproductive rights and keep our kids stupid. That will teach them!"
Are we as a culture so stupid, so thin-skinned, so self-absorbed with our own egos, that we would rather throw away everything our favorite candidate believes in just over spite? I want someone to explain this to me.
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Anyhow, maybe Clinton's speech writers and speech coaches can direct his energy toward improving his direction. He really needs to concentrate on the whole world security issue, because this, I believe, is a large reason why Kerry/Edwards failed in 2004. We can't have another 8 years of economic terror in the U.S., and McCain, although having proved he is his own man in the past, is starting to look more like someone who's being bought and sold by the Republican Party to keep the status quo.
I think Hillary has enough grace and dignity and in a few days she will come out in support of Obama.
Give the poor woman a break she just lost...big time.
But she is a survivor and will bounce back.
As for her staunch supporters...they are not stupid they will do the right thing
who is rederick?
oh, rhetoric?
Luv U Lori
come november democracts will do the only thing they can
stay home or vote Obama
for a dem to vote McCain is beneath them
I judge people by their actions. Not "vibes." particularly when it comes to the most important position in the country. Making such judgements on the basis of vibes, in the face of all of the documentable data available, makes no sense to me.
I Am Not a Bargaining Chip, I Am a Democrat
Doing otherwise, particularly on the specious (and often inaccurate) accusations against Obama is, in my opinion, not only short-sighted but petty.
But - I'm first and always a woman, a lesbian, a mother, pro-choice, pro humanism, anti-war, pro union, pro economic empowerment and always a democrat.
Sour grapes make for pi** poor wine.
I'd vote for Hillary if she won.
Now I will continue to support Obama.
Disappointment will fade and upon sober reflection people will begin to respond to issues that drove them to their original candidate of choice in the first place.
The political feminists, mostly women over 40 (this is an arbitrary number), will eventually respond to the sort of issue based arguments you put forth in your article. Add to that the strong prospect that the next president will appoint at least one supreme court justice. With McCain, we will not be seeing a John Roberts replacing a Wm Rehnquist. We will see a Thomas or Scalia replacing a Souter or a Ginsberg. I think most of these voters will return to the fold.
The other group that went for HC in a big way are te blue collar, working class white people otherwise known as the Reagan Democrats. This is the most fickle group of "democrats in name only". Recent history suggests that a fairly large portion of this group would defect to McCain even if HC were the nominee. It remains to be seen whether or not this group can be weaned away from their fear driven voting pattern and persuaded to vote in their true self interest.
At least I hope so.
If McCain gets in because the Dem's once again shoot themselves in the foot by being splintered and not because he's the better candidate, then we ALL LOSE (except the McCain supporters who win out of default rather than earning it).
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I try to consider what they may actually accomplish, versus what they say. A candidate may want to end abortions lets say, but in reality with the make up of Congress is it likely to even get off the ground? So lets say I was absolutely pro abortion, but with a Democratic controlled Congress, I wouldn't worry about it really (even Bush couldn't do it). It ain't gonna happen!
Anyway, that was just a hot topic example, and how some may think, I do at times; but I'm sure there are other reasons to consider as well...
I am also concerned about national security and here Obama terrifies me.
There are lots of issues. I will not find a candidate who agrees one hundred percent with me, but I like John McCain He is man of great character, intelligence and vision.
Such the "good" candidate vs the "bad/evil" candidate has become to much a way of thinking in recent elections much to the detriment of our nations and have resulted in cults of personality both pro and anti particular candidates. With rare exception no candidate is either all good or all bad but some people seem the interpret everything a candidate says as all one or the other.
As for what people say in pre-election and even pre-convention polls I take it with a grain of salt because I think the answers are often based on what result the person being surveyed thinks would be most influencial in getting others to vote as they want them to vote.
Not once did I criticize Obama or interpret, interpret hell, outright LIE about his quotes like the Hillary haters.
I could not tell if I was reading Limpaugh or real Dems.
Is the Hillary hate so great that they actually heard her threatening to assassinate Obama?
George Bush did not get half the criticism Hillary did when he Stayed the Course no matter how many troops died.
Witch and bitch is what Obama's supporters have called her. They sound like Repubs. I truly believe the Repubs brainwashed them to hate her.
My beef is not with Obama but the hate his supporters showed my candidate.
I heard some RepubliCon LIES become reality when the gullible swallowed the LIES the Clintons trashed the White House and pilfered Air Force One.
They accused her of playing hard ball as they called her Bitch. And they got the nerve to question her campaign.
I will vote Obama, despite his psycho, brainwashed supporters.
Moderate Democrats, with positions that the progressives scratch their heads over, are being elected in battleground contests. Obama is not attracting these voters, neither did Kerry or Gore. Bill Clinton did, and he did it well.