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September 27, 2005
Vote Hillary '08: Women's Commandment-In-Chief?
Michael Dukakis' former campaign manager weighs in, this supposedly Geena Davis-laden week, with the observation that "Hillary Clinton leads every public poll for the Democratic nomination for president -- and her candidacy will be the most important test of women's equality in my generation, precisely because so many Americans aren't ready for a woman president yet. But while I would argue that women have a special obligation to support her for just that reason, unfortunately, it doesn't mean that women are necessarily better leaders."
Her meaning, more plainly stated, is that the risk to women's interests (as women) averted by voting for Hillary, simply because she is a woman, is more serious than the risk to their interests, as citizens, indulged by voting for Hillary simply because she is a woman...
That's a heavy roll of the dice to take because "so many" of us are somehow (how?) unprepared for a female president -- all the more so when Estrich reveals in the same article that "the number of Americans who think that their neighbors" are "ready" for Madam President stands by poll at "two-thirds."
Consequently, although gender does not correlate to leadership, women are bound to the superceding duty to vote Hillary in '08 because the majority of Americans prepared to vote for a female nominee is a mere 66%. In Congress, this percentage is high enough to overturn a Presidential veto. For Estrich this flush numerical inequity is a mark of how far we have to go toward women's equality.
In fact, large numbers of Americans themselves admit that they'd personally vote for a female candidate -- to the tune of 75% -- but Estrich divines from this number that roughly one in ten respondents lied to their pollsters to look PC. A richer field for mining hypotheses is the matter of why voting for Elizabeth Dole in the Republican primaries of last election cycle was not a sexual imperative or even a feminine prerogative. Odd that Estrich (whose Election Law class I attended, and vastly enjoyed) skips over that possibility, and weirder still that Hillary Clinton continues to cause rational people to think that the question of whether she makes for an acceptable president has anything to do with that of whether women make for acceptable presidents.
Posted by James G. Poulos at September 27, 2005 01:20 PM
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