Hitlary Nagging the Voters of Wisconsin, Somebody Ask Her to Step Down Please...

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Clinton Makes Fresh Push in Wisconsin

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

MADISON, Wis. -- Sen. Barack Obama has been lavishing attention on the

historically independent voters of Wisconsin. Rival Sen. Hillary Rodham

Clinton is moving belatedly to make a contest of next Tuesday's Democratic

presidential primary.

The senator from neighboring Illinois has spent more time in the state than

the former first lady. Obama drew 4,000 people at a rally last October and

beat Clinton back to Wisconsin this year.

But Clinton hasn't conceded the 74 delegates at stake even though she has

already begun campaigning for the larger delegate prizes offered in Texas

and Ohio on March 4. Her advisers say the New York senator may not win

Wisconsin but can't afford another of the lopsided defeats she suffered in

three mid-Atlantic primaries Tuesday.

Obama drew more than 17,000 at the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison

Tuesday night. And he will appear in six other Wisconsin cities before

Clinton even makes her first appearance on Saturday. The Obama camp doesn't

want to risk a loss or even a surprisingly strong Clinton showing at a time

when expectations for him are rising.

An internal memo that the Obama campaign accidentally sent to reporters last

week projected a 7-point victory over Clinton in Wisconsin. The campaign

expects strong support in urban Milwaukee and liberal Madison, and with

stops at a Janesville auto plant and in industrial Racine on Wednesday he

was trying to shore up support with blue-collar, union households that have

been favoring Clinton.

Obama appears to be better organized in Wisconsin than Clinton, who looks to

be throwing together her state operation at the last minute, said UW-Madison

political scientist John Coleman.

Playing down expectations, the Clinton camp says Wisconsin's primary

electorate is liberal and well-educated _ the kind of voters who have

strongly supported Obama. Even Milwaukee, the state's largest city and home

to many of the white, working-class voters who have favored Clinton, is also

40 percent black.

Scrambling to prevent an Obama runaway, Clinton plans to spend three days in

the state. On Tuesday, she squeezed in three satellite TV interviews with

Milwaukee, Madison and Green Bay stations amid seven interviews with Texas

and Ohio stations. Former President Clinton arrives on Thursday.

A new Clinton TV ad begun Wednesday asks why Obama hasn't joined her in

accepting an invitation to debate at Marquette University. "Maybe he'd

prefer to give speeches than have to answer questions," the narrator says

before claiming that only her health care plan covers everyone and only her

economic plan freezes mortgage foreclosures.

While her ad flickered on Wisconsin TV screens, Obama appeared live at

Janesville's General Motors Corp., plant a day after the company posted the

largest annual loss ever for a U.S. auto company _ $38.7 billion in 2007. He

strove to link his biggest difference with Clinton _ over the Iraq war _ to

the economic problems that both campaigns have focused on here.

"The housing crisis that's cost jobs and wiped out savings was not an

inevitable part of the business cycle," Obama said. "It was a failure of

leadership and imagination in Washington ... where politicians like John

McCain and Hillary Clinton voted for a war in Iraq that should've never been

authorized and never been waged _ a war that is costing us thousands of

precious lives and billions of dollars a week" that could be used on

infrastructure, job training and health care.

The state seems to offer opportunities, and handicaps, for both candidates.

For every factor that favors Clinton there is one for Obama, said Charles

Franklin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor and

polling expert.

While Clinton has more big union support in Wisconsin, only 25 percent of

Democratic voters in 2004 earned less than $30,000. The same percentage

earned more than $75,000, a group that has favored Obama elsewhere.

In the 2004 Democratic primary, 89 percent of voters were white, while

blacks, who have overwhelmingly supported Obama this year, accounted for

just 6 percent and Hispanics, who have been solidly behind Clinton, only 3

percent.

Wisconsin's open primary rules could give Obama an advantage this year. With

the Republican race all but decided for John McCain, Obama may benefit from

an influx of Republicans and independents, as he has in earlier primaries.

Both candidates were busy courting the student vote, a potentially huge

factor. In the 2006 elections, Wisconsin led the nation in young voters at

17 percent.

Joi Ridley, a 25-year-old law student at UW-Madison, showed up to hear

Clinton's daughter, Chelsea, speak earlier this week. As a black woman,

Ridley said she's had friends lobbying her on behalf of both candidates.

Although she said she's leaning toward Obama, she added, "I'm not sold on

either one."

Both candidates need to persuade voters they can stand independently from

party doctrine, said Mike Wittenwyler, a political consultant who helped run

the 1998 campaign of popular Sen. Russ Feingold, who has said he likely

won't announce who he is backing until after the primary. "I think the two

Democrats have to be able to prove how they fit that Wisconsin mold of

personality and independence."

Leading Wisconsin Democrats are split.

Clinton has endorsements from Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton, Rep. Tammy Baldwin

and the county executive where Madison is located, Kathleen Falk.

Obama has the support of Reps. Dave Obey and Gwen Moore, the mayors of

Milwaukee and Madison, and Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle, who said, "This is

really a state where these two candidates can be tested."

Feminism is Jewish.

Gloria Steinem was a Jew. Bella Abzug was a Jew. Betty Friedan was

a Jew.

Friedan, as the writer of "The Feminen Mystique" and founder of

NOW, really

started the modern feminist movement.

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By Michael Shaprio

# 56 Betty Friedan (b. 1921)

Born Betty Naomi Goldstein to Harry and Miriam (Horowitz) Goldstein in

Peoria, Illinois, educated at Smith College, married in 1947 to Carl

Friedan, the mother of three children, divorced in 1969, activist,

best-selling author, professor, a founder of the National Organization

for Women (NOW), the National Women's Political Caucus, and the First

Women's Bank, researcher, journalist, Democrat, clinical psychologist,

and grandmother, Betty Friedan was the most influential feminist of

the postwar era. Deemed by Marilyn French and others as an "initiator

of the 'second wave' of feminism, " Friedan's writings and lectures,

including the highly influential books THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE and THE

SECOND STAGE, synthesized women's views on what equality meant and how

to live and work... When the war against fascism ended two decades

later, four million women lost their jobs to returning GIs. Women were

again told that their place was in the home. The freedom to work to

build up and defend their nation was over. Men would earn the family's

bread. What the boys needed was a warm place to come home to every

night. Ironically, American soldiers had accepted some of the values

toward women (Kinder, Kuche, Kirche - children, kitchen, church) as

the Nazis they thought they had defeated...

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