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#politics #society #unitedstates Women only have from the onset of puberty to menopause, unlike men, about 40 years to educate themselves, work and pursue a career, find a partner, bear children, contribute significantly in their infancy to nurture them, and enjoy more frequent sexual pleasure. After menopause the sex drive diminishes. This weighs on their minds. It is a tall order unlike men who are biological bumblebees, flitting from flower to flower to pollinate, generally getting away with less responsibility than men most of their lives if they wish to. Both family and society must make it easy on women to be able to do all these for them to have a good life making it psychologically pleasurable to bear children instead of blaming them. 2. Women should stay in violent relationships. I disagree. Neither a man nor a woman should stay in abusive relationships. Period. 3. Parents should have a bigger voice in society than childless citizens. I disagree. All individual citizens have equal rights under the constitution. 4. Vance resists affordable daycare. United States is an 80% services economy. Home can also be the office except for some service and non-service occupations where physical workplace presence is required. Parents, not paid child caregivers, are always the best caregivers. Young parents must be given flexibility until children turn 5 to be able to play a significant role by being actively present and participating in child rearing. This is a time of lifelong bonding of children with both parents and for active and osmotic formative learning. 5. Vance wants law enforcement to have access to women’s medical records to enforce abortion bans. I disagree. Women have right of privacy to all their medical records, except under certain exceptions when the law may require such access for both men’s and women’s medical records. Abortion, however, is not a form of contraception. The Dobbs decision must stand and women must work to legislate at the federal level reasonable exceptions to Dobbs for abortion access and wide availability and accessibility to women of safe contraception and the morning after pill. Male contraception must also be just as equally considered without always placing undue burden on the woman for preventing pregnancy when unwanted. United States of America is not a theocracy but a law abiding democracy.

“Women of color are part of the fastest-growing voting constituency in the American electorate. In an era when elections are won by tight margins, women of color wield the power to decide races up and down the ballot.” - Newsweek GMMB is proud to be working with Intersections of Our Lives, a collaborative of three women of color-led Reproductive Justice organizations, to promote the results of their poll of women of color voters. The poll, conducted by Lake Research Partners and HIT Strategies, provides a thorough look at the connections across Black, Latina/x, and Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) women voters and their motivations and issue priorities in the 2024 election cycle. GMMB Catalyst, GMMB’s multicultural communications practice group, has led the communications rollout for the poll. The poll found that women of color voters do not see their priority issues addressed by policymakers and political leaders. Reproductive Justice issues – such as securing good-paying jobs, accessing affordable healthcare including abortion and birth control, improving maternal health outcomes, lowering the cost of housing, and addressing rising costs and prices – are top of mind for women of color voters who could decide elections.  Read more on the importance of prioritizing #ReproJustice: https://bit.ly/3KIScj2

As the November election approaches, increasing numbers of people look to polls as a crystal ball to forecast who will emerge as the eventual winner. Many people – including those of us who design and conduct surveys for a living – will tell you this is not a good idea, but it’s not because the polls themselves are not trustworthy. Cries of “don’t trust the polls” ignore the scientific rigor and attention to detail that remains a hallmark of high-quality election polls. However, even the most carefully-designed polls are not precise enough to predict the outcome in an election as close as this one promises to be. Does that mean you should ignore all polls between now and Nov 5? No! There is still much to be learned from polls about the mood of the electorate and people’s views on health care and other issues if you look beyond the question of “who are you going to vote for?” Here are two examples of important insights from KFF election-related polls: - Democrats and Republicans have historically placed different levels of importance on health care as a voting issue, but a recent KFF poll showed that when asked what health care issue they most want to hear about from candidates, the top answer for voters on both sides of the aisle was addressing the high cost of health care, illustrating that health care remains a pocketbook issue for voters as it has for many election cycles. - Our Survey of Women Voters found that between June and September, an increasing share of women believed the presidential election would have a major impact on abortion access in the US, and abortion increased as a voting issue for young women, ranking alongside the economy in the top spot for this group. These changes illustrate the evolution of abortion as an election issue over the course of the 2024 campaign, particularly as President Biden left the race and Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee. While these data points may not add up to a prediction of the election outcome, they provide important context about the factors voters are weighing in their decisions and illustrate the types of health issues the public wants the government to focus on no matter who wins. My advice: You don’t have to ignore all poll results between now and election day, but if you are a poll consumer, make sure you’re consuming a balanced diet of polling that includes more than just the horse race question. For more polling from KFF: https://lnkd.in/gxiSbwdc

More than one in five Americans is a woman of color - and a new poll shows they are not feeling heard and want policymakers to address issues they care about. The poll comes from a coalition of civil rights groups called Intersections of our Lives. Lupe M. R., executive director of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice says while motivation across the electorate is lower than in the past - candidates who want to win must pay attention to women of color. "Women-of-color voters can't be underestimated. Elections are often decided by narrow margins. We should not be seen as low-propensity voters, we need to be seen as high-potential voters, and folks can't afford to take us for granted," she explained. The poll found nearly nine in ten women of color say voting is extremely or very important. Women's rights and abortion, combined, are top issues for 31% of Black women, 34% of Latinas, and 36% of AAPI women. Roshni Nedungadi, chief research officer and founding partner of the public opinion research firm HIT Strategies, said women voters of color are highly concerned about economic issues that affect their everyday lives - and not just high grocery prices. "They're thinking about access to affordable health care, including abortion and birth control. They're thinking about more affordable housing, they're thinking of course about cost of living, job creation, and closing the pay gap," she continued. The poll also found that 93% of Black women, 84% of AAPI women, 79% of Latinas agree with the statement that racism has gone on too long and that policies to advance racial equity are long overdue.

#politics #society #unitedstates Substack has posted the attached comprehensive guide to the views of Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance on women and children. Assuming there is no misinformation or disinformation, and having watched the film Vance made based on his book Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis https://a.co/d/0Y1P5xS as a child raised by his brilliant nurse single mother who relapsed often into drug addiction, it would be useful to understand where he is coming from shaped by his life: 1. Women on the left not bearing children. Vance’s concern is valid. Child bearing is in large measure a significant part of the self-actualization of any woman, because only women, not men, can conceive, incubate, bear, and nurture children with breast feeding critical for natural immunity against disease to perpetuate the species. Why are socially liberal women, including in Europe, not bearing children? There are several well known reasons: A. Pregnancy is disruptive of women’s education, career, and financial independence. It makes women dependent on male financial support, which can, but not always, become abusive in a relationship and men historically have been socially non-committed philanderers once they father children with their wives or female partners. Women want more comprehensive control over their lives. But this does not obviate the natural biological responsibility of a woman to bear the next generation. B. Pregnancy and breast feeding disrupts active recreational sex life by making women unattractive to men who tend to move on to more attractive, and usually younger, women, which older women cannot as easily do as men.

The 2024 presidential election is a significant election because the majority of Generation Z, those born between 1997 and 2012, would vote for the first time. This generation forms roughly 20% of the U.S. population. They are tech-savvy and politically aware, though they still face issues of voter registration compared to their older counterparts. A recent poll indicates a sharp gender gap among young voters, with men generally preferring the Republican Party while women favor the Democrats. The gap is also reflected in their leading issues: on the economy, young men say, and young women also speak of access to abortion, among other issues. Economic fears fill the air, coupled with the rising grocery and housing rates, which is one major reason for frustration among most young voters. Most of them are afraid that perhaps they will never be able to buy a house due to the high increases in the real estate sector. Most Gen Z women feel that abortion access is important to them, particularly concerning changes in laws related to the overturn of Roe v. Wade. The issues are compelling Gen Z to vote for reproductive rights. Social media significantly affects political engagement among Gen Z as there are more people who are made to keep their political orientation out of sight. Many people actually lie about their voting intentions. This proves that their generation is polarized. Some other pressing issues that may touch Gen Z's votes in these elections are stability in the economic scene and reproductive rights which affect these perspectives in a more polarized manner with which politics arises. . . . #GenZ #Voting2024 #PoliticalDivide #AbortionRights #Economy #SocialMedia #YoungVoters #Election2024 #WomenInPolitics #PoliticalEngagement #Tribunetrends

Vote 2024 Historic firsts: Voters in Delaware elected the first openly transgender person to Congress, while two Black women will serve in the Senate for the first time. -------- - Now that Republicans have reclaimed a Senate majority, Trump will have the opportunity to appoint more judges and increase his influence over the courts. However, any efforts to advance legislation will depend on control of the House, which is still too close to call.   ✔ Democrats are still defending tight Senate races in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Nevada, NPR's Deirdre Walsh says. In the House, there’s a possibility Democrats could win a narrow majority. If Democrats can't flip the House, Republicans will control both chambers of Congress and the White House.  ✔ (2)Two Black women will serve together in the Senate for the first time in U.S. history. Maryland’s Angela Alsobrooks and Delaware’s Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester doubled the number of Black ever women elected to the U.S. Senate from two to four. Both are Democrats. ✔ Delaware State Sen. Sarah McBride also made history. She is the first openly transgender woman person elected to serve in Congress. ✔ Voters in 10 states are deciding whether to include protections for reproductive rights in their state constitutions. ✔ Arizona voters have approved a GOP-backed immigration measure allowing state and local law enforcement to arrest undocumented migrants.

Today, FMRS had a day on the ground in east Detroit, going door-to-door to engage with voters directly - as part of the get out the vote (GOTV) efforts that dominate the closing stages of US presidential campaigns. As recent insights from pollster Ann Selzer suggest, there’s a rising wave of political energy among women voters impacted by the Dobbs decision. In a time when many traditional polling approaches overlook these shifts—especially among women over 50—engaging in face-to-face conversations becomes all the more crucial. [Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eHKKkCd8] This election has underlined the urgency for many women, who are not only voicing concerns about reproductive rights but also expressing frustrations with how polling and media sometimes miss their perspectives. This rang true for us today, as we spoke to voters who feel a long way removed from this kind of political analysis. There’s a lot of discussion about the respective ground games of the Democrats and the Republicans, and whether this traditional strength of the Democrats will make all the difference in a close race - especially with the volume of negative advertising from the Trump campaign we’re seeing on TV in Michigan. We’ll find out on Tuesday.