Jezebel: Women Voters

Florida Women Remember That Newt Gingrich is a Dick

Erin Gloria Ryan — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:00:00 EST

Mitt Romney decisively defeated Newt Gingrich in yesterday's Florida primary. What happened to Gingrich, who just a week ago was the GOP's golden man-boy, poised to issue a real challenge to Romney's assumed candidacy? Well, women happened. More »

Is Obama Really Losing The Ladies?

Irin Carmon — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 18:00:10 EDT

Is the Obama administration alienating women? The right-leaning Washington Times claims that it is. However you're feeling about our president these days, there are reasons to be deeply skeptical of their reasoning. More »

Senate Women's Dinner Club Has A Few Rules

Irin Carmon — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 10:10:31 EST

Chris Matthews recently asked Claire McCaskill about amity among female senators: "How come that works for your side of the gender aisle and men don't seem to get along? Is it just the testosterone or what?" Maybe it's the dinner. More »

Women, Gay Voters Veered To The Right

Irin Carmon — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:00:33 EDT

Exit poll data is easy to distort, and the overlaps of many categories are often ignored, but here are some insights from how people voted Tuesday. It's not pretty. More »

You Have Better Things To Do Than Vote

Irin Carmon — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:54:00 EDT

"I'M LEAVING A FUCKING INTELLIGIBLE COMMENT ON YOUTUBE," and other half-assed reasons for not voting. More »

The Inexplicable Refusal Of Women To Vote For (Certain) Women

Irin Carmon — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:01:00 EDT

This is an mailer that Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski sent to appeal to women voters. But not everyone is buying it. Meanwhile, women voters are unimpressed by Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina. What's wrong with you chicks? More »

Blame Men (For The Republican Surge)

Irin Carmon — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:58:00 EDT

Several polls of key races this fall show that not only are more men voting Republican, they're also way more energized. Where are the ladies? Besides on a few Republican ballots, that is. More »

Meg Whitman Is Betting Women Will Make Her Governor

Irin Carmon — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:40:00 EST

Billionaire Meg Whitman just donated another $20 million of her own money to her campaign for the Republican nomination for California governor. Meanwhile, a new profile in More shows how hard she's going for the female vote. More »

Barack Obama Is A Win For Women

Megan Carpentier — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:00:00 EST

Barack Obama doesn't just represent a win for the women of America in terms of his positions on reproductive choice, health care, pay equity, family leave, comprehensive sex education and subsidized child care — though, arguably, he is definitely that in comparison to the McCain-Palin ticket. He is also a win for women because — more so than ever before — women's votes propelled him to victory. So, first, congratulations, women of America! Now let's look at the numbers. More »

Seriously, Women Actually Pay Attention To Politics In Other Years, Too

Megan Carpentier — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:20:00 EDT

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I've written before about how this election feels like the year in high school that I got breasts and boys started paying attention to me. You'd think that this was the year that women finally proved that they can get elected to office, will show up to vote and care about politics, even though all those things have been true for a long, long time. Apparently, though, this is new information to the political and media establishments, if a spate of stories late this week are any indication. More »

Does Anyone Else Feel Like Their Value As A Voter Has Just Been Discovered?

Megan Carpentier — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:00:00 EDT

Like many women who are probably reading this, I was an awkward little kid. After the first flush of kindergarten boyfriends eventually gave way to playing like little adults in grade school, I was one of the many girls who didn't have a boyfriend. I didn't even dance with a boy until the 8th grade, when my best friend dated the best friend of the boy I'd been crushing on for 2 solid years and he made his friend dance with me (to "Patience," and there's even a picture). And then a couple years past and suddenly I had bigger tits and grown-up facial features and the attention of boys (and, creepily, men). This is year that young women voters got metaphorical tits, like we weren't worth paying attention to before. More »