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[quote=Anonymous]I agree that it's this particular woman.

I am not a white male (I'm an American-born Asian guy), but I know and have discussed American politics with a lot of friends, colleagues and acquaintances who are like minded Caucasian men.  Many of us supported Geraldine Ferraro.  As a moderate, I have been supportive of a number of female politicians in the past (from both sides of the aisle):  Connie Morella, Barbara Mikulski, Jean Kirkpatrick, Madeleine Albright.

However there are a number of female politicians, I cannot conscientiously support including Hillary Clinton.  Another one was Sarah Palin.  I notice that there were far fewer cries of sexism or that people were afraid of voting for Sarah Palin because they didn't want a female vice president.  Clinton's gender may be historically significant but I believe that it is far less significant as to why people who are not voting for her are voting against her.  She carries a huge volume of negative political baggage.  Just because her supporters discount the baggage, does not mean that the baggage is a more signficant factor for her detractors than her gender.  But apparently because her supporters can cast her political baggage as unimportant, everyone else must and therefore the only real reason anyone would vote against her is her gender.

Your argument is overly simplistic.  Yes there are some men who are voting against her because they don't want a woman president, but I think there are far fewer of those than you think.  There are probably more white men who are voting against her this year because they have just been through 8 years of a non-white male president and want to come back to a white male president (since that's all we've ever had prior to 2008), but I think the number of people who are actually voting this way is highly overestimated.[/quote]

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