{"id":602,"date":"2008-03-02T17:04:28","date_gmt":"2008-03-02T21:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=602"},"modified":"2008-03-03T23:02:10","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T03:02:10","slug":"qual-pium-al-vento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=602","title":{"rendered":"Qual pium al vento"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mysterious words from someone in the Washington Post.  And apropos of the woman voter, she writes<\/a>: <\/p>\n

\n

Penn was right about the importance of the women’s vote. About 57
\npercent of the voters in the Democratic primaries so far have been
\nwomen. As of Feb. 12, Clinton had a lead of about seven percentage
\npoints over Obama among them (24 points among white women). But the
\nObama campaign reached out to the fair sex, following Clinton’s
\nannouncement of women-oriented programs with similar ones within a
\nmatter of weeks. I can imagine the strategists for the senator from Illinois<\/a> thinking, "What’s that song in Verdi<\/a>‘s ‘Rigoletto’?" Women are fickle.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n

\nTurns out it’s true.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Why’s that, you wonder?  <\/p>\n

\n

From the moment the primary season began, the group "women" divided
\nalong racial lines. Black women have backed Obama by more than 78
\npercent. But even after subtracting that group, white women (including
\nHispanics) are still the single largest demographic in the party, at 44
\npercent. If they voted as a bloc, it would take only a little help from
\nany other bloc to elect the female candidate. White women favor
\nClinton. So why is she trailing as the contest heads to Ohio<\/a> and Texas<\/a>?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I know this is supposed to be funny–what with the hilarious reference from Rigoletto–but aside from being representative of Cokie Roberts style Monday morning identity politics breakdown, it’s just silly.  Women would only be fickle if, as an identical group, they changed <\/strong>their minds–qual pium al vento<\/em>.  The quick references to the polls hardly establish that.  <\/p>\n

The more likely conclusion is that the author of this silly thoughts is muta d’accento e di pensiero<\/em>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mysterious words from someone in the Washington Post.  And apropos of the woman voter, she writes: Penn was right about the importance of the women’s vote. About 57 percent of the voters in the Democratic primaries so far have been women. As of Feb. 12, Clinton had a lead of about seven percentage points over … Continue reading Qual pium al vento<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-category-mistake","category-op-ed-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}