43 Comments - Responsa - Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 10:15 am: I know! I know! They’re all wimminz! - Give Me A Break - Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 10:18 am: Which makes it hard to believe someone is running for president under the “Grabbin and Groping” banner. - Altgeld - Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 10:19 am: And the down-ballot MWRD races, too: Barbara McGowan Mariyana Spyropoulos Josina Morita - BigDoggie - Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 10:27 am: “Which makes it hard to believe someone is running for president under the “Grabbin and Groping” banner.” Against someone married to a person residing under the “Already Grabbed and Groped Many and Stained an Intern’s Dress in the Oval Office” banner. - PublicServant - Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 10:28 am: I wish them all luck. - Sharon - Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 10:29 am: It’s always been 9/9 and no one took notice before. All I can say is “about time!” - Rocky Rosi - Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 10:36 am: After I voted I was thinking the same thing! I voted for all women. They should all win. - AlfondoGonz - Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 10:41 am: I believe it is the year of the “Nasty Woman” - Northsider - Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 10:48 am: BigDoggie for the false equivalency Fail! Firstly, blaming the wife for the husband’s misdeeds? Deplorable. Secondly, Bill’s not running for president; the self-identified sexual predator is. - Interested - Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 10:52 am: I am happy and proud that I will be in the 9 for 9 group - voting for great women who stand ready to do things that matter! Having the first WOMAN PRESIDENT is a big deal people! - Ron Burgundy - Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 10:59 am: Well one of those nine, Brown, will win but still has the Feds snooping around. She’s also really, really bad at her job. - @MisterJayEm - Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 11:00 am: “Buh… buh… but BILL!!1!” – MrJM - Saluki - Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 11:01 am: I don’t vote for people based on gender. I vote based on qualifications and research of voting records. If it’s silly to vote for someone strictly because they are a man, why would it be different to vote for someone because they are a women? - Anonymous - Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 11:04 am: @Northsider: It is wrong to blame HRC for her husband’s actions. It is appropriate to blame her for covering up his criminal acts by trying to silence his victims. - crazybleedingheart - Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 11:05 am: Looks like IL needs another such name on the ballot in 2018. https://capitolfax.com/2016/10/26/i-kinda-doubt-hell-take-this-question/ - Rhino Slider - Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 11:17 am: Its interesting to see when women get the vote, spending goes up dramatically. I wonder if the same will go for elected office? - wordslinger - Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 11:21 am: –Its interesting to see when women get the vote, spending goes up dramatically.– ????????? - Jose Abreu's next homer - Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 11:23 am: No Joe Walsh defeats Melissa Bean outta no where results this November? - walker - Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 11:36 am: 9 for 9 in a some suburbs too. Voting was a special experience. Is there a difference in how the parties recruit, prepare and encourage candidates? Or is it more part of a general trend reflected by Lester and Cosgrove yesterday. - Anonymous - Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 11:51 am: @Walker, it’s pretty simple. one party thinks government should make decisions about a woman’s reproductive choices. the other does not. one party often tries to convey personhood to a fertilized egg, making it equal to a grown woman. the other does not. pretty basic difference that drives women more to one place. - Lucky Pierre - Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 11:59 am: And one party compares a 9 month old unborn baby to a fertilized egg as if there is no difference - Amalia - Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 12:15 pm: that was me at 11:51 am and Lucky Pierre, debunked. - wordslinger - Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 12:16 pm: –The dominance of democratic women also speaks to the oarty’s decline with white men– Yeah, it’s all gone with the wind, Scarlett. It’s been all downhill since Pickett’s Charge, am I right? I mean a woman’s vote equal to mine? A black person’s vote equal to mine? - Amalia - Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 12:31 pm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JiSIUTEM2A Let Dr. Franco explain - Anon III - Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 12:37 pm: Whether it is cynical or smart, it is gender politics. Suburban women vote, and party chairmen started taking note decades ago; anointing and then clearing the field for women candidates. I’ll even bet that Gov. Rauner would like to see a woman as Speaker. - hockey fan - Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 12:38 pm: I am a white male Democrat. I am loving that we have a woman at the top(s) of our ticket. I am not threatened, scared nor do I feel there is some imaginary war against me as a male. The people who say there is a war on men are the ones who are also against political correctness. I oppose those views, I do not think it is okay to degrade people and call them names because they are gay, disabled or different. I do not think that men know better or are better suited to make decisions. We are all people. This is a good day, and this white male Democrat is looking forward to voting for the best candidates, male and female. - Lucky Pierre - Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 12:58 pm: Wordslinger it much easier to insinuate racism on my part by my quoting of the Vice President’s remarks than address the substance of the issue - Give Me A Break - Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 1:00 pm: “Pickett’s Charge”, pretty sure Newt was a young private in one of the Georgia Divisions. Donald was going to take part but he couldn’t find a “Make The South Great Again” hat to wear. - Keyser Soze - Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 1:12 pm: From the 1980’s. Are we not men? - HRC2016 - Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 2:36 pm: @Keyser Soze We are anything but men. https://youtu.be/dwkEgKEyBIo - Annon3 - Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 2:39 pm: I was struck by this when I voted the other arfternoon, it even seemed as if a majority of the judges were women too. I just thought to my self how proud my grandmothers would be to vote this year. - City Zen - Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 2:45 pm: Does Schakowsky still count as a whole person? - Touré's Latte - Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 2:53 pm: LOL an you thought the Fingerprint thread brought out the crazy. I hereby debunk my own comment to save someone else the trouble… - Ilinois Bob - Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 3:11 pm: OK, when was the last time things got better with a woman in charge of government at a high level? Margaret Thatcher? From what I’ve seen from Illinois politics, women are just as corrupt as men. Illinois is clearly an “equal graft opportunity state”LOL - Big Muddy - Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 3:26 pm: I got to vote against Kifowit yesterday. Not because she is a woman but because she is terrible at her job. Fully agree with voting for the best candidate and not what type of plumbing they have. - Mama - Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 3:48 pm: We “Nasty Women” vote! Get over it. - Anonymous - Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 3:55 pm: ==I’ll even bet that Gov. Rauner would like to see a woman as Speaker.== …and Speaker Madigan would like to see a woman as Illinois Governor. - Anonymous - Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 3:59 pm: ==when was the last time things got better with a woman in charge of government at a high level?== Angela Merkel Chancellor of Germany since 2005 and the leader of the Christian Democratic Union since 2000. - Wensicia - Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 4:46 pm: ==when was the last time things got better with a woman in charge of government at a high level?== Name me one instance where a woman was in a top level position and things got worse, state or federal government. - Ron - Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 7:53 pm: Voted for Clinton and Duckworth. Voted against the rest of them. Illinois and Cook County need some change. - Rabid - Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 9:46 pm: Has Illinois comptroller gone downhill? - logic not emotion - Thursday, Oct 27, 16 @ 10:38 am: In my utopian world, people would vote for candidates based upon their qualifications, ideals, experience, competence and – most of all – demonstrated character. Neither race nor gender nor a whole slew of other irrelevant factors should even be a consideration. I think it reflects very poorly upon anyone for whom those are a consideration and that it is even a factor for some reflects poorly upon us as a society. We should be better than that. As to the actual candidates, neither one is particularly appealing to me. I will be voting for the one I perceive as the less bad of two very bad candidates. - Anon III - Thursday, Oct 27, 16 @ 11:50 am: Anon…Wed… @ 3:55 pm: ===…and Speaker Madigan would like to see a woman as Illinois Governor=== Ouch! LOL Sorry, comments for this post are now closed.