Reply #46: And that's why if she picked the Democrat, she might have used better reasons in that race...

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... and therefore if he lets her tell him the logic, then he lets her tell him that she's a good Democrat in that race, which he can agree with and say something like "you did well there!" in an effort to let her think out loud to herself how her oversimplifying the reasons to vote for Meg might have been wrong, and not have him telling her that outright which would put her on the defensive.

If she gets really defensive about not talking about who she voted for, then back off and don't press the point, but perhaps remind her in closing why she voted for all of the other Democrats and to think hard how that applies to how she voted for the governor's race, or perhaps drop it altogether and just let her think about things... Ultimately she should know that he is pretty passionate about getting Democrats in power too, and should realize that he's not voting for Brown just because he's a man over a woman too.

It seems like the parties are testing us now if we oversimplify our voting process by putting forth minority and different gender choices that have us focus on whether someone is a woman or a minority in who we vote for rather than what they are actually wanting to do. I think the Democrats had that last election with their presidential nomination process too and it heavily divided us.

The day that a huge number of Republican women won primaries, I made a thread on this note and got criticized as if I was doing something more misogynist, which wasn't my goal. Even Laura Flanders on her show was making the same point, and she's far from being a misogynist. I'm guessing that theme plays out a lot in this election, and hopefully people will step back and vote based on the fundamental issues and not just on people's gender, racial identity, or other personal attributes of candidates.

It was kind of weird in the election many years back when my sister voted for Arnold Scharzenneger and I voted for Bustamante. I realized then that we both voted more on issues and that she was less of a Democrat/progressive than I was, as had we voted on how we felt about him as an actor, we might have both voted opposite of what we did, as I was a big fan of the movies he was in, and she wasn't. But then again, I'm not married to her, she's just my sister, so I have to deal with her political perspective being different than mine. I think this time around she's voted for Brown, but am not too sure. I sincerely hope that she voted for Boxer though. Having worked in the online music business that got directly affected negatively by Fiorina's stupid decision to OEM Apple's Ipod, I have personal reasons as well as political reasons to want to keep her out of office.