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Now we know why GOP tea party kooks are pushing these Sharia law candidates for office like Ken Cucenelli and Bishop Ewwwwww Jackson. Today it's government-mandated vaginal probes. Tommorow it's disenfranchising the female vote.
I want qualified congressional candidates. I think we should just go for qualified. If the entire congress was female and they could do the job...I'd go for it.
I'm a GOP member BTW...I wasn't polled.
If you read the link and then the underlying polling data, which the OP didn't, most republicans answered the same as you, which is the correct answer.
Liberals were more likely to say "elect a female even if she wasn't the best candidate".
Well considering the women that the GOP has sent to Congress I think they have some valid reasons for not wanting to see more Republican women in Congress.
You actually have the nerve to say this with the dummies you democrats have put in office? They are listed above in another post. Talk about dumb.
I want qualified congressional candidates. I think we should just go for qualified. If the entire congress was female and they could do the job...I'd go for it.
I'm a GOP member BTW...I wasn't polled.
It's important to the Dems apparently to fill these idiotic gender/racial quotas instead of putting in the best candidate regardless of skin color or genitalia. If that person is a white male, clearly something is wrong.
I'm a liberal and I want the best candidate regardless of sex,race,gender, religion, or anything else. I don't care if the congress is all white males, all black females, all crippled lesbian jews with a lisp....if they do the job well...I'll vote for them...point blank.
And that is the point. The original study showed liberals less likely to have that viewpoint than conservatives. We all need to read the study itself, not the spin put on it by a reporter (as the OP did)
I would imagine that most of the people who identified themselves as Republican in this poll were men, which would explain why they wouldn't want more women in Congress.
I personally want more Libertarians in Congress...and the Senate, and everywhere else.
I would imagine that most of the people who identified themselves as Republican in this poll were men, which would explain why they wouldn't want more women in Congress.
I personally want more Libertarians in Congress...and the Senate, and everywhere else.
Now we know why GOP tea party kooks are pushing these Sharia law candidates for office like Ken Cucenelli and Bishop Ewwwwww Jackson. Today it's government-mandated vaginal probes. Tommorow it's disenfranchising the female vote.
Well, if you were being honest and not trying to score political points...
...you would mention that based on the way it is worded, many of those Republicans who voted no would in fact vote for a Woman. They wouldn't however, think that women should be elected for the sole fact of having more women in congress. What is wrong with that? Vote for who you think is best regardless of gender, race, etc...
Just over 40% of Democrats answered the same way that most Republicans did. Democrats were exactly as likely to say that electing more women would be a bad thing as Republicans.
Perhaps this poll shows that Republicans are the least judgmental as they were far more likely to answer that it would make no difference in congress job performance if women or non-whites were elected more frequently -- hence people are equal...Democrats saying congress would be better if more non-whites or women were elected is kind of racist and sexist is it not???
I think the lesson to take away is that the OP and his propaganda website like to distort information for political gain and smearing. Both sides do this and it hurts the country.
TP got the only spending cuts passed in 12 years. TP was right about Obama and Obama-care.
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