Female Candidate Finds a Tough Audience: Women

[iandhr]

Source: NY TIMES

HARTFORD — Every time Dolores Meehan turns on her television, there she is: Linda E. McMahon, attacking her opponent, in yet another political advertisement.

“She’s bothering people,” said Ms. Meehan, a retired telephone company worker from Norwalk. “There are about 10 to 12 ads in an hour. If you’re watching a show, it’s too much.”

Liz Costas, 51, owner of Katie’s Gourmet in downtown Stamford, is also tired of the relentlessness of Ms. McMahon’s campaign.

“She’s got a billboard the size of my car right outside my house,” Ms. Costas said.

With Election Day about three weeks away, Ms. McMahon, the Republican nominee for Connecticut’s open Senate seat and a former World Wrestling Entertainment executive, faces this major obstacle in her quest for the seat: Many female voters are turned off by her campaign.


A CNN/Time poll last week showed the Democratic nominee, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, with a nearly two-to-one advantage among female voters, and Ms. McMahon’s campaign is struggling to find ways to connect with women.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/14/nyregion/14mcmahon.html?pagewanted=1&hp

[Cassandra]

1. Hiccups?

[A HERETIC I AM]

2. I think yer "post message" button got kinda stuck there, pal n/t

[iandhr]

3. It did

[iandhr]

4. Female Candidate Finds a Tough Audience: Women

Source: NY TIMES

HARTFORD — Every time Dolores Meehan turns on her television, there she is: Linda E. McMahon, attacking her opponent, in yet another political advertisement.

“She’s bothering people,” said Ms. Meehan, a retired telephone company worker from Norwalk. “There are about 10 to 12 ads in an hour. If you’re watching a show, it’s too much.”

Liz Costas, 51, owner of Katie’s Gourmet in downtown Stamford, is also tired of the relentlessness of Ms. McMahon’s campaign.

“She’s got a billboard the size of my car right outside my house,” Ms. Costas said.

With Election Day about three weeks away, Ms. McMahon, the Republican nominee for Connecticut’s open Senate seat and a former World Wrestling Entertainment executive, faces this major obstacle in her quest for the seat: Many female voters are turned off by her campaign.


A CNN/Time poll last week showed the Democratic nominee, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, with a nearly two-to-one advantage among female voters, and Ms. McMahon’s campaign is struggling to find ways to connect with women.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/14/nyregion/14mcmahon.html?pagewanted=1&hp

[hedgehog]

5. I wonder if it's the number of ads that's the problem, or the

stupidity.

[kstewart33]

6. Or the steroids. Or treating women in the wrestling ring like dogs. nt

[Dawson Leery]

7. Perhaps women recall Linda and Vince's

blatant disrespect of women from WWE programming?

[FirstTimeVoterAt37]

8. The dog thing was nothing

How about when Lita got fake-pregnant by one of two guys, and in their match to see who married her, one fell on her and caused her to miscarry? This, of course, caused her to bond emotionally with the guy who fell on her.

How about when 70-year old Mae Young went into a long pregnancy angle culminating in a revolting "birth" where she popped out a slime-covered rubber hand. It was supposedly some kind of sex toy she'd lost nine months earlier.

Those are just the two I remember off the top of my head.

[cheneyschernobyl]

10. Don't forget about HHH (the owner's son-in-law)...

he put on a mask, and had sex with a corpse. What garbage!

I do admit being a life-long pro wrestling fan, but I try to take it in stride. Some of the things are definitely scripted, but that doesn't stop me from enjoying it. I sure miss the NWA.

[No Elephants]

9. In 2010, the NYT is stilll surprised/bemused that women don't vote straight Vagina Party ticket?

Jaysus!


And anthropologists claim all Neanderthals died out.