{"id":1532,"date":"2008-09-17T19:39:53","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T04:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2008-09-18T12:58:50","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T21:28:50","slug":"pale-in-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/pale-in-comparison\/","title":{"rendered":"Pale in comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ve probably all seen the email circulating about the 1400+ Alaska anti-Palin rally held this weekend in downtown Anchorage. You may not know that the rally was organized by a small group of women, talking over coffee<\/a>. Just goes to show that a couple of people can do anything, perhaps even turn an election around. The buzz made it into the Washington Post.<\/a><\/p>\n

These are some of the better posters:<\/p>\n

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Women’s rights groups endorse Obama. This is an excerpt from the AP story<\/a> by Ann Sanner.<\/p>\n

Women’s rights groups endorsed Barack Obama for president Tuesday, asserting the historic selection of a female Republican vice presidential candidate does not make up for John McCain’s lack of support on issues important to women.<\/p>\n

“We don’t think it’s much to break a glass ceiling for one woman and leave millions of women behind,” said Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation.<\/p>\n

Smeal was among leaders from six organizations that announced their endorsement of the Democratic presidential nominee at a news conference.<\/p>\n

Obama also won the support of the National Organization for Women, which said it has not endorsed a candidate for president since Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro shared the Democratic ticket in 1984. Ferraro was the first female major-party vice presidential candidate.<\/p>\n

NOW backed New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in the primaries. “We join with her in saying ‘no,'” said NOW President Kim Gandy, referring to a line Clinton used at the Democratic convention last month. “No way, no how, no McCain.”<\/p>\n

Gandy and Smeal dismissed polls that suggested McCain has received a boost in support from white women after he picked Palin.<\/p>\n

“The die is not cast yet,” Smeal said.<\/p>\n

An Associated Press-GfK Poll of likely voters last week showed Obama’s lead among women at 49 percent to 44 percent. The same AP-GfK poll showed that white women are backing McCain over Obama, 53 percent to 40 percent.<\/p>\n

Gandy predicted women will quickly swing their support to Obama once they know where Palin stands on the issues. The Alaska governor opposes abortion except in the case of a threat to the mother’s life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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