Because women are not autonomous beings capable of using their own judgment to choose a candidate on any basis other than gender.
Because women routinely make their voting decisions based entirely on spite, or vengeance, or some other emotion.
Because a woman’s vote is never an actual vote for or against anything, but always just a reaction to what the real (read: men) voters think. (See? You were right, hon. Everything IS always about you!)
More here.
As an antidote to the current inanities about women in politics, check out the new book about Bella Abzug, an oral history edited by Mary Thom and Suzanne Levine. For a recent review, see the Nation website:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080204/aronowitz
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For another comment on women and the election,
Read this post:
http://righterblock.blogspot.com/2008/01/prepositions-of-power.html
and this one
http://righterblock.blogspot.com/