The most well written and fully fleshed out article on the Franken mess.

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66. It has ZERO to do with your wording

and EVERYTHING to do with your content.

There are wonderful women on our side, as well as wonderful men. The fact remains that when 10 women go to the polls, the Democratic candidate falls another vote behind (and it's even worse when you don't include the black women who, judging by the relatively small gender gap between black men and black women, are voting primarily based upon issues deriving from their race, as opposed to their gender). When 10 black voters go to the polls, the Democratic candidate gets 8 votes further ahead. THAT is what happens when a constituency is oppressed by the other side.

Since 1992, our campaigns have targeted women, sometimes even to the point of victimizing black people and other constituencies fiercely loyal to the Democratic Party, because the political "geniuses" who have been in charge of all but two of those campaigns -- the two where we actually won BOTH a decisive majority in the Electoral College AND a simple majority of the popular vote -- have convinced folks that women (and particularly white suburban women) are NECESSARY for us to win AND that women have a commonality interests so that it is actually possible to get them to vote Democratic by a sufficiently large margin to offset the even more clearly "lost cause" that is white men. Both of those are bullshit and the last 25 years proves it. We have done EVERYTHING possible to fulfill that pipedream, up to and including preparing and running an astoundingly qualified female, and STILL we can't even get a majority of the women demographic to vote Democratic on a national level.

The suggestion that the Women's March's, and even more so, the #MeToo movement (which has been mangled into a tool for our enemies), shows anything more than that our minority share of the women's vote is fired up because Trump is so bad (a great thing, no doubt) ignores the fact that, even after 25 years of directly targeting women voters with our campaigns and our policies, a majority of the class of women STILL voted for Trump.

Now, our party leadership has the gall to say that canning Franken will "finally" make a difference, that "now" women will see what we stand for, that ending the political career of a man for touching women on the posterior over who he had no power whatsoever will change the minds of women voters who voted for Trump?

Please.