59 Percent Want Women To Be Eligible For The Military Draft

[Purveyor]

Nearly sixty percent of Americans believe women should be eligible for the military draft, according to a new poll released Friday.

The results come on the heels of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's decision to open up the ranks of the U.S. special operations forces to female soldiers, sailors and Marines.

Sixty-one percent of women polled by Florida-based CapitalSoup.com and the Mason-Dixon Polling and Research firm want the draft opened up to women, compared to 35 percent of men.

Only 35 percent of female voters believed the military draft should remain closed to women, according to the poll, released Friday.


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[JustAnotherGen]

1. Wait

I don't want anyone drafted. Are we bringing back the draft?

Or is this about registering for selected service at the age of 18?

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. You and me both....clever how they snuck the word "draft" in there.

[JustAnotherGen]

6. Okay

Thought it was just me.

[Arkansas Granny]

3. The draft? Didn't that end about 40 years ago?

[WovenGems]

4. It's a retro law

Bad news gals, you've been drafted. The good news, wars over so you've won a trip to Viet Nam.

[DreamGypsy]

5. Lousy title. Lousy reporting.

Here is what the article from Capital Soup says New CapitalSoup.com Poll Finds Widespread Support for Including Women in Any Military Draft Support is strongest among Democrats, women and younger voters

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — On the heels of a Pentagon announcement that women will soon fill frontline combat positions as part of U.S. special forces, a new nationwide CapitalSoup.com poll documents widespread public support for women being included if a U.S. military draft were ever reinstated.

The poll, conducted by CapitalSoup.com and Mason-Dixon Polling & Research to mark the 40th anniversary of the end of the U.S. military draft, found that 59 percent of Americans believe women should be included in a draft, compared to only 38 percent who think they should not. Support for drafting women was strongest among Democrats, women and 18-34 year olds.

One should generally assume shoddy journalism until proven otherwise.


(on edit: Oops. I first read the group conducting the poll as Capitol Soup; it's CapitalSoup. o=> a. Shoddy proofreading.)

[DURHAM D]

7. The least support for women being drafted was among older people.

Perhaps that is because we remember that the ERA was defeated because fear of the draft for women was the main argument used by the right.

Ratify the Equal Rights Amendment and then get back to me with the poll question. Until then they can f off.

[WestStar]

8. "If a U.S. military draft were ever reinstated"

it would certainly put some feets in the streets.

Oh I know there were marches and protests leading up to our "Liberating of Iraq" but they largely fizzled in a few weeks because nobody had skin in the game.

But the driving force, the focus as it were, behind the sustained actions against the war in S.E. Asia in the '60s and '70s was the draft. That's not to say there weren't some true believer anti-war demonstrators but in my experience it really was fed by those of us opposed to being conscripted and forced to participate in LBJ's military adventures. Adventures that were based on outright lies and deceptions.

Don't you think that if there was a draft hanging over everyone's head today that the current moves in the M.E. regarding Syria wouldn't be meet with angry mobs in the streets?

No matter who the President is.

[Purveyor]

9. This is why I support the resurrection of a mandatory draft for all with damn few exceptions. nt