Some Thoughts on recent political stuff

I'm getting really sick and tired of all these primaries.
I'm an impatient type and I know I don't like the majority of the candidates running (of either party) so I'm very bored of the primary process. I just want it to be November already so I can cast my vote for whoever the Democrats put forward (or do a write-in, I'm not sure).

I'm also getting really annoyed at all these various articles, and radio bits about "women voters". Yesterday on NPR they had two female political experts talking about how, omg, women don't all vote the same. wow, it just blew my mind. Who knew that all women don't think the same? *rolls eyes*

It just grates on me. When we talk about voting patterns there are a lot of variables. I just find it highly irritating that when talking about female voting patterns, everyone acts as if it were some strange thing that no one has ever seen before. There is this underlying feeling of "Women don't all vote alike? Alert the presses!"

However, for once, female voting patterns and women's issues are getting some air time. I guess that does go to show that Hilary Clinton being in the election is accomplishing something towards women's issues. The candidates have to actually consider women's issues in the race, they can't just ignore them. She is not my first choice of the candidates running (or not running) but the historical value of her candidacy is certainly awesome.

Of note, Barak Obama doesn't have a section of his website on women's issues, nor a section on queer issues. Come on, dude, if you can't even have some staffer write up a blurb for the website, if you cannot even throw together some token paragraph, that tells me that you don't consider those issues to be important. Well, feminism and gay rights are important to me so that's why you're not my first choice of the candidates, either.