Harris ad and women voting in own interests

I don't have an article but I heard earlier that younger voters are discovering the 'Access Hollywood' video on Tic Tok.. they were kids in 2016 when it came out.

I’m guessing you were referring to my post with the first part of your comment above. I most definitely didn’t “brow beat” my DH into submission. That would not even be possible. The man has a mind of his own just like I do. What I have done though, is to combat some of the ridiculous misinformation he brings home after hanging out with his Trumper MAGA buddies and point him in the direction of less partisan sources and the actual facts at hand, which can usually be found with a simple Google search.

Being an intelligent person with some critical thinking skills, he figured out pretty quick that the way the current SCOTUS leans is not good for young women like our kid, or some of her LGBTQ extended family and friends. I told him back in 2016 that I wasn’t just voting *for* Clinton, I was voting D precisely because of the Supreme Court. The newest appointees would be there potentially for decades and they will make decisions that will affect our kid and her world for most of her adult life. History has already proven to him that I wasn’t wrong. He knows that I do far more research into the down ballot candidates so he actively asks me for my input on those races.

As for the kids, my kid is much more politically savvy than I was at her age. I never really paid much attention to politics until I was in my 20’s. My parents never talked to us kids about those things. All of the schools in our district held a mock election last week, she came home with her “I’ve Voted” sticker and said she voted for Harris/Walz. They won’t announce the winners of the school polls until Election Day.

The guy I dated for several years in college was part of a family of far right folks. I remember one election his mom showing me a list that her husband gave her outline the full ballot. She told me then (in 2000) it was just better to take the list and then vote for the opposite. I will never forget that. I certainly hope she is t still doing that today but I would not be surprised. I couldn’t live like that and it ultimately was one of the reasons that we split up.

I found out recently that my own girls (aged 13 and 15 in 2016) had never heard it. They weren't going to vote for Trump anyway, but hearing that gave them even more of the ick about him than they already had.

WTF!?
When did that happen?

I know younger voters vote in low numbers.  However, I think this election is different.  I think they were really energized when Biden stepped down and Harris was chosen.  My boys were always going to vote D, but they were really excited about Harris.

Younger generations have lived through the experiences of school shootings and active shooter drills.  They are fed up with Republicans selling out to the NRA and loosening gun regulations.

They care deeply about the environment and oppose Trump’s agenda to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. They disagree with his plans to loosen regulations. They are concerned about climate change and the devastating effects of storms.  They disagree with the plans in Project 2025 to eliminate NOAA.  

They disagree almost completely with Project 2025.

They are unhappy with Republican voter suppression efforts.

They are passionate about bodily autonomy and reproductive freedoms.

And younger generations are more diverse and more inclusive.   They are more likely to know someone in the LGBTQ community.  They are passionate about looking out for marginalized communities. They disagree with the book bans, Republicans’ culture wars, anti-trans laws etc.  They are deeply offended by the comedian’s comments about Puerto Ricans, blacks, Jews and Palestinians.  They strongly feel that everyone should have an equal opportunity.

Younger generations are motivated more by social issues. Today’s Republican Party does not have a lot to offer them.  Instead of recognizing their policies are unpopular with younger voters and moderating, Republicans have just doubled down. I am hopeful since there is a clear distinction between the candidates, younger voters will turn out in greater numbers.

Yes, it is missed history.. they have missed it.
But so glad it has resurfaced!!

Yes! Yes he did!

I posted this earlier today.

And this is the fool maga is supporting for president..
Publicly loving on his mic..


youtu.be/1AebaA1AF9w?si=aB4upJ7wQyuVWO5W

Rhondito

Yes saying he wasn’t going to pay his bill and was going to beat them up or something like that. I can’t remember his wording and I’m not going to go back and listen to him again.

How many venues has he stiffed now?

I hate that there are women in a position that they need to keep their vote secret. But, I love the idea of women supporting women.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/03/harris-wife-trump-husband-ad/

In a bathroom stall, a simple message: Vote Harris. No one will know.

In the final days of the presidential race, what started as a whisper campaign has become the subject of a controversial 30-second ad, been amplified by Michelle Obama and drawn furious backlash from the right.

One woman stuck a note to the door of her hair salon in North Carolina.

Another pressed it onto the back of a tampon box in Arkansas.

A third hung one on a mirror of a women’s bathroom at an Ohio airport.

“Woman to woman,” the note read. “No one sees your vote at the polls.”

In swing states and Republican strongholds, on college campuses and in sports arenas, sticky notes have appeared reminding women that their votes are confidential — kept private even and especially from the men in their lives.
The origins of the trend are unclear, but the co-founder of Women for Harris-Walz, a grassroots group supporting the vice president’s campaign, says her members have been sticking notes in bathrooms and similar spaces for months, encouraging women to vote their own minds and reminding them that their ballot is secret.

This gives me hope

www.nytimes.com/live/2024/10/30/opinion/thepoint#pennsylvania-secret-harris-supporters

Secret Harris Supporters Could Make All the Difference

In 2016 many of Donald Trump’s supporters were so embarrassed to admit to pollsters that they were going to vote for him that his victory came as a shock. This time around, I bet that it will be the secret Kamala Harris supporters who make all the difference.

At the bustling Harris-Walz campaign headquarters in Wayne, Pa., an affluent purple community about half an hour’s drive north of Philadelphia, canvassers are instructed to skip houses on their list if there is a Trump sign in the yard, to avoid outing closet Democrats to their family members. This unofficial protocol was adopted after canvassers witnessed tense moments at doorways, between husbands and wives when canvassers revealed who they were looking for and why, according to Alexandra Moncure, a volunteer who serves as events manager at that campaign field office.

“We’re trying to be delicate,” Moncure, who was a registered Republican until the Jan. 6 riot, told me.

On Sunday morning about 70 canvassers got fired up at that office with a visit from former Secretary of State John Kerry and Jim Greenwood, a Never Trump Republican from Bucks County who served in Congress from 1993 to 2005.

Greenwood, a co-chair of Pennsylvania Republicans for Harris, told the crowd that he speaks often to fellow conservatives who don’t want to vote for Trump but can’t bring themselves to cast a ballot for Harris. He tells them that Harris wouldn’t pursue a left-wing agenda and that even if she did, Republicans on Capitol Hill would stop her. Trump, on the other hand, would have no constraints.

But he went on to make a positive case for Harris, who held a rally with Republican elected officials in Bucks County two weeks ago.

“She’s a good person. She’s authentic. I love her,” he told the crowd. “Right in front of my wife, I said to her, ‘I’m smitten.’” (It wasn’t a problem because his wife “is smitten, too,” he told me.)

In the audience, Matthew McCaffery, a Marine Corps veteran who once served as a Republican City Council member in New Port Richey, Fla., wore a black T-shirt that read, “Republicans for Harris.”

“I’m one of the 10 percent,” he told me, referring to his prediction that 10 percent of Pennsylvania Republicans will cast ballots for Harris. He said he came up with that figure because of conversations he has had with some of his female friends and neighbors who tended to avoid talking about politics but who have recently begun to signal that they agree with him, he said.

“They’re eating the pets!” one of his neighbors joked to him, in what he described as a sign that she understood the absurdity of Trump’s claim that Haitians in Ohio were feasting on dogs and cats. And there may be many others: More than 150,000 Republicans cast protest votes for Nikki Haley in the Pennsylvania primary, even though she had already dropped out of the race.

Secret Harris Republicans are elusive by definition. But given the number of loud and proud Harris Republicans frequenting that campaign office, I know the quiet supporters are out there.

Some of them probably think it's cool.

I’d be curious to know just how many places he *hasn’t* been back to specifically because he never paid his bills? I read somewhere that Minneapolis only recouped about 1/5 of what Trump owed for his 2019 rally there. Wonder how many other cities he still owes money to?

Just read this ..

You just reminded me of something I heard many (many) years ago from an old Black preacher. "The Lord took eve out from Adam's side. Not from his feet so he would walk on her. Not from his brow so she would rule over him. From his side, so they would walk as partners, together, forever."
A lot of men don't get that.