'I'm not with her': why women are wary of Hillary Clinton

[Triana]

Anoa Changa is a feminist who isn’t going to vote for Hillary Clinton. Last July, when the 34-year-old Atlanta-based attorney began volunteering with the grassroots organization Women for Bernie Sanders, she received immediate pushback from other women. Over social media, they accused her and other Sanders volunteers of betraying their gender, and of being fake feminists. Even former professors and friends questioned how she could support the Vermont senator over the secretary of state.

“Some women I encounter act as if I’ve betrayed some kind of secret society,” says Changa. “I reject this brand of feminism. I’m not only voting for my gender, I’m voting for other issues.”

For the first time in its history, America is close to electing a female president, yet many women from across the political spectrum don’t like Clinton.

It’s true that, as a whole, women support her more than both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, but that support is not nearly as overwhelming as black voter support was for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. Millennial women, for example, prefer Sanders to Clinton and 49% of American women give the secretary of state an unfavorable rating.

Women from across the political spectrum, who often can’t agree on basic policy, are united in their opposition to Hillary.

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http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/23/women-female-voters-us-election-hillary-clinton?CMP=fb_gu

[SFnomad]

1. June 7th can't come soon enough n/t

[jehop61]

2. Millennial women

are but a portion of women voters. Those of us around for the beginnings of Clinton derangement syndrome know just how much lying and misinformation have been thrown at her. She's a trooper and a fighter and emminately qualified. And we were on the forefront of feminism. Without us, younger women's lives would be very different.

[lunamagica]

3. Do you know what the biggest blocking vote is? Black women. And they've voted for Hillary

consistently in rates of 70% 80%.

OP FAIL

[roguevalley]

4. some of us feminists from the 60's want a woman for prez like you can't conceive but not someone

this awful, this flawed and has almost as high unfavorability numbers as Trump. As for 'derangement syndrome' ... I remember that coming out of Bill's bullshit and him LETTING HER GO OUT TO DEFEND HIM WHEN HE WAS FRICKING GUILTY! That was Bill's doing. What man who loves his wife would let her go out and rage all across the media about a vast right wing conspiracy making shit up when HE KNEW HE WAS GUILTY!? Spare me the excuses.

[Triana]

6. Exactly. n/t

[Nye Bevan]

5. How many women will vote for the "blood coming out of her wherever" guy

who wants "some form of punishment" for women who have abortions?