Happy Election Day!
November 2, 2010
by The New Agenda
|Happy Election Day!!!
Now for some Election Day fun…
Tell us your prediction for this Election Day. What will be the biggest surprise when we wake up tomorrow?
The New Agenda’s Amy Siskind gave her prediction over at The Daily Caller:
Women voters, for the first time since 1982 when exit polls were taken, will favor Republican candidates. In an effort to keep women voters, the Republicans will purposely put a woman on their 2012 ticket – either Palin/Gulianni or a victorious Mama Grizzley in the VP slot (Whitman, Haley or Martinez). Also, Liz Cheney will become RNC Chair in 2011 when Steele steps down.
You can also read predictions there by Greta Van Susteren, S.E Cupp, Luke Russert and many others.
Now we want to know YOUR predictions…leave us a comment below!!!
I like Amy Siskand’s prediction!
Rossi/Murray in Wa is too close to call, so it could go either way.
I’d really like to see Christine Odonnell win because she’s the one candidate who could cause a bipartisan head explosion, including Karl Rove’s. The party elites from both sides of the aisle have just been nasty to her. I’d like to watch all the pompous pundits have to eat their shoe.
I predict that Republican Women will be elected and the world will not stop spinning on its axis, nor will all women with active uteri be relegated to back alleys. I also predict that as far as women taking their rightful place at the political power table, “you ain’t seen NOTHIN’ yet!”
They thought we’d go away, get over what happened in 2008 and fall in line. Well, they’ve got another think coming. Women will win big, no matter the party. That’s the story, whether the defenders of the patriarchy want to name it or not.
“I’m so excited, I just can’t hide it, I’m about to lose control and I think I like it!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6A6pMO_WKM
For Optixmom:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJmBPCYt5LY
And of course, the one that started it all!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqsY6_ayl90
The Washington state election is mail-in only in all but Pierce county(Tacoma) with ballots postmarked by midnight tonight or placed in very few drop boxes all with little parking until 8pm. So it could be weeks before the outcome of the Murray/Rossi race is known.
I agree I would love to see ODonnell win because she seems like a real human not someone who was bred to run for office starting at age 3 with their enrollment in their elitist pre-school. and I hope Meg Whitman wins as I think she could grow into our first woman President. I hope we see several “first woman” governors. And I hope we see a Congress who can enact some moderate policies for The People and the future of our country as opposed to implementing Corporate Americas agenda while mouthing political dogma with self righteous religious zeal.
I also miss going to a polling place and feeling the energy of all my neighbors gathering and voting. So I would like to see women’s groups encourage women to sponsor “mark your ballot” get-togethers. I’m doing it next time. I figure I will put on a pot of stew and some corn bread, invite all my friends and neighbors over to mark their ballots and watch the political reports. Then we can walk up to the post office or drive out to the late postmark office.
Oops! “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet” I wish I knew how to make a video montage of all the women running with this song playing…Anyone?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
OH RealChange, that is a GREAT idea. Once today’s results come out I will be on that!
I don’t know what the GOP will do in 2012. I hope they put women on the ballot and their party becomes more inclusive. My take is that they will have to do more for women with regard to policy. In the senate, none of them except the women and one man voted for the Ledbetter legistlation. Now that’s pretty telling.
Our challenge is to make both parties work for our votes. I’m hoping that the fact that women voters are moving to the Republicans for the first time in 30 years, democrats get the message and start working for our votes as well. Their sexism has been appalling over the few elections.
O’Donnell +1, but I’m wearing Alice-in-Wonderland socks.
I think Murkowski is going to win in AK, but we won’t know the final tally for quite some time, and there will be much lawyering and bickering until that time. Go Lisa!
The party’s at my place:
http://syd4.blogspot.com/2010/.....-brew.html
Oh, and … BTW… I was interviewed by the local ABC affiliate here. About why I was voting. I told them… cuz women make up 51% of the populace and only 17% of leadership positions … I was there to vote for the Ladies!!
I think the guy was really surprised. He was expecting me to bash the Dems (I live in a Conservative area.)
My first REALLY Independent vote felt fabulous. All over the party map!! But… women only.
I’m hoping that our 3 Women to Watch win tonight. All three are presidential material: Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Meg Whitman (R-CA) and Nikki Haley (R-SC). Whitman and Haley would be historic firsts – first women governor in their state!
WALL TO WALL WOMEN, all up and down my ballot. If there were two men running, I didn’t even bother. Like the San Francisco paper that couldn’t be arsed to support either candidate in a two-woman race, but could probably dredge up a “lesser of two evils” in a two-guy race.
Solid women. It felt fantastic.
Optixmom- Here’s a link that might help with that montage:
http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/fa.....s_2010.php
Go Women!!!
Seriously women need to find ways to bring along young voters in an intelligent nurturing way as opposed to the mindless media hoopla of 2008 that attempted to herd them in a mindless way. I wish I thought of the mark your ballot party/open house in time to make a difference. But it is one way for women to influence new voters if many of us can be convinced to do it. I don’t even care how they vote as long as young women get in the habit of thinking about voting and voting. This will be especially effective now that elections are going to mail in only which leaves a cultural emptiness we can fill. The only mental image I have from the last mail in election was that of a horrid traffic jam as everyone parked randomly on a street with no parking and wandered around in the street trying to figure out how to drop off their ballot. That doesn’t encourage participation or a warm and fuzzy feeling.
I predict women will vote for pubs over dems by double digits. Pubs will do what they have to do to keep the women vote. Dems will do what they can to get the women vote back. What will they do? Show us the women! Target and groom women to run in 2012, 2014 and beyond. The pubs will raise the Dems by putting a woman on the ticket in 2012.
Dems will do what they can to get the women vote back. What will they do?
Put Hillary on the ticket or else. If she’s not there, they are cordially invited to climb up to the roof of the Capitol building and jump.
And BTW — TOP of the ticket. TOP. No more consolation prize.
I’d love to see Hillary run top of the ticket again, Janis, but she really may not want it. In her role as SOS, she is an actual world leader, not just President of one country. Seriously, I follow her at the State Dept and she is greeted by crowds of thousands of women all over the world who look to her for leadership, whether she’s visiting girls rescued from sex slavery or dealing with rape victims in the Congo. This country lost a chance to have one of the best president’s ever, but our loss was women and girl’s gain, all over the world.
As Sarah Palin always says, you don’t have to be an elected official to make a difference. Both of these women have accomplished more in the last two years than any elected official could ever dream of.
Unfortunately for us, the candidates who truly understand that the presidency is not some sort of prize or trophy, are the ones we really need to have running for office.
If that’s the case … they can jump, then. *shrugs* I don’t care. If Santa doesn’t choose reindeer like me to pull the sleigh, then Santa can drop out of the sky for all I care.
I predict that we will move even further away from being a stable Western democracy with functioning institutions.
On a more positive, yay-women note, hmm. Well, I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that my senator, Barbara Mikulski, will be re-elected. I’m not even from Maryland originally, but she has a special significance for me — as a teenager, I followed politics even more than I do now, and even though I was kind of a Liberal Dood sympathizer, I never failed to notice that there were always exactly two women senators, Mikulski and Nancy Kassebaum.
I still long for the day that I can addres the leader of this country as “Madame President.”
I agree with AnneE, I want to see a woman President before I die and be represented by a Congress that has 51% women and a Court that has 5 women Judges.
Chris Christie- Sarah Palin would be a great ticket, in either order of President and Vice President. Palin will continue to expose the gutter misogyny of the liberal left, and those same elitist neo-liberals will certainly attack Christie over his weight, alienating the many millions of over weight Americans, well except for Micheal Moore.
I would love to see what’s left of the democrat party be completely destroyed by their own meaness and misogyny. Christie and Palin, or Palin and Christie are tough as nails and have governed their states responsibly and sucessfully. I hope that will be the ticket in 2012. Plus, having a Catholic and a former Catholic on the ticket could lure more Catholic democrats over to the right.
I really hope that Liz Cheney will not head the RNC after Micheal Steal leaves. The Tea Party was created because of the arrogance and over reaching of the democrats and the Bush republicans. Karl Rove and anyone with the name Bush or Cheney need to be kept away from the Tea Party moded republican party. Bush and Cheney were Globalist just like the Gores, Obama’s and Soros’ of the world. America has rejected that path to a “new world order,” “global governance.”
Lets look to the future of the republican party not the past. A republican women who made it on her own would be a better choice for RNC chair person.
Bes
Your comment about bringing along young voters in an intelligent way is something I whole heartedly agree with. I was speaking to my niece (who had an Obama poster on her bedroom wall in ’08,) about the return to sanity rally that Jon Stewart held. I explained to her that the singer who Stewart introduced by his first name only, is Yussef Islam. I told her the facts about his support for a Fatwa against Salmon Rushdie and his support for the stoning of women. I asked her if that makes it a bit silly for Stewart to invite him to sing Peace Train at the sanity rally.
My niece knows that I was a loyal democrat; I took her and my other nieces and nephews to Hillary rally’s with me. But I now explain to them that the radical left has taken the party and that they are just an embarassing bunch of far left loons now.
I think she is starting to understand. Fashions like Obama mania fade fast among youth. So lets keep communicating with the young voters. We need them.
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