Counting On Wal-Mart Women

The assumptions about Wal-Mart women both in the article and by the posters here are appalling. Perhaps someone should research just how many women working at Wal-Mart do have a degree and I am not talking about those in the management program. I am talking about Wal-Mart "associates."

It's clear to see that some things haven't changed as we are still stereotyping women, Wal-Mart associates and by association those that shop there.

Its an egregious activity when an entire party of our 2 party system behaves and uses their "intelligence" to profile their constituents and describe them in socio-demographic terms without thought to their attitudes and emotional reasons for choosing a president to run the government that they believe in as freedon loving Americans like everyone else! Unlike The Obama campaign, that has found a unifying goal and vision that elevates the individual to that concept that is the cornerstone of the American Nation, one vote - one voice - that counts amid the sea of voices but in unison, it is heard loud and clear to all nations that America will not succumb to the corrupt politics of the last regime any longer !

I guess I fit the McCain's description of a Wal-Mart woman because I do not have a college degree and make less than $60K. The only thing is I do not shop at Wal-Mart, I do not in any way relate to Sarah Palin nor would I want to, and I voted for Obama 3 weeks ago and that label sounds totally degrading. I think McCain fails to realize that women are smarter than he thinks they are and giving them a disparaging label is not going to get him more votes - he clearly does not respect women given his past actions and comments.

I think the fact that McCain calls women in this category "Wal Mart women" is reprehensible. I hold two degrees from Texas Tech University and have never had a career that paid more than $60,000. Not even close! There are MANY professional women with college degrees who shop at Wal Mart. We shop here because we are struggling to save every cent that we can in this economic disaster brought about by the McCain/Bush economic policies of the last eight years. Once again, McCain proves that he is out of touch!

Wal-Mart Women...how degrading, regardless of education, salary, or whether you shop there or not.

Pigeon-holing groups of people like that is perhaps one of the worst ways that McCain's pollsters and campaign advisers screwed up. They got a pretty spokes model wearing Chanel to spew soliloquies to all the Joe Six-Packs and Hockey Moms (who probably now also fall into the Wal-Mart Women category), and now they're shocked that, gasp, even "little-women" who don't make a lot of money have enough brains to see through the muck.

Rather than campaigning as if our country were in the worst shape it's been in almost a century with people truly suffering because of it, they continue to use the Bush model of campaigning with catchy slogans and talking down to people. It's as if they don't realize that the majority of educated people - both men and women - don't make that much money a year (at least here in Texas). They are putting a lot of people in that category, and with or without the money and education they talk about, that term is degrading.

I never had a real problem with McCain (aside from not agreeing with most of his policies), until this campaign. It has been run with the attitude that Americans are either gun-toting hillbillies or America-hating liberals. The days of neatly categorizing large groups of people like that are over. It's time for the Republicans to take a note from the Obama campaign and plan a little more intelligently in 2012 - at least if they want to get the vote of some of the "lower forms of life" they can't seem to hold onto this go-around.

Bravo Eleanor Clift. Great article and keep it coming. Time to renew my subscription to Newsweek!! I wonder if Adam and Eve were Republicans...After the first sin,Adam blamed Eve and God( for giving him Eve) and Eve blamed the serpent. And to this day,few people want to look in the mirror for their problems,especially the Repugnicans. I only hope that Obama is up to the task of fixing the overwhelming damage done to this nation and its reputation by Bushco and the Republican Taliban

Excellent article Eleanor! I was laughing when that internal McNasty campaign memo got leaked as I knew it was just another lie to prop up a losing campaign and give their foolish faithful a feeling of false hope. Maybe the Wal-Mart women were seduced by the siren song of Tinkle Down economics the past 28 years but I think that now they've seen the light that it only gave them the wrong kind of Golden Shower. I bet they're pretty mad and disappopinted at being lied to for so long and now they're going to srike back on Election Day by voting for Obama.

Nope we're witnessing thankfully the end of Ronny Raygunz's Great Right Lie about how giving the rich and greedy big tax cuts they don't need or deserve helps out those below them. It's about time for some proper government regulation to stop the corporate robber barons from stealing us blind while piling up massive debts for future generations to struggle paying off.

Hey watching you on MSNBC tv right now with Alex Witt. I so can't wait for Tuesday night and watching Mcnasty and his little Twisted Sister concede to the landslide victory for Obama/Biden.

I think it's interesting that 44 years after Goldwater, the tired GOP tactic of blaming the media is still in use. If the media is truly that biased towards the left and has been for so long, what does it say about the ineffectiveness of the GOP to fix it? Their lame attempts at "leveling the playing field" - FOX "News", Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter - are so far to the right that nobody takes them seriously, and rightfully (no pun intended) so.

And those of you who claim that the press doesn't report on Biden and Obama's gaffes are seeing/hearing what you want to see/hear and ignoring the rest. The Biden quote on Obama being "tested" was not only widely reported in the media, they chopped off the second half in which Biden extolled Obama's 'spine of steel' because it made the quote less sensational and, for the most part, a circuitous compliment gone awry.

Could it be that McCain got more negative press because he said and did a hell of a lot of REALLY stupid things? The Palin selection has proven to be the biggest of his stupid decisions, but less because of her clear incompetence for national leadership as for his complete and utter lack of vetting her. Then we have the hate-mongering campaign tactics, his shocking behavior in light of the economic meltdown, etc etc.. honestly, had there been anything terribly positive to report on, it would have happened, but he made a string of bad decisions and was never able to get out of response mode when the repercussions to those decisions came to pass. And don't even get me started on the ridiculousness of Joe the Plumber - even the most idiotic among us are tired of McCain campaigning as though we have much of ANYTHING in common with him. When you turn some unknown idiot into your campaign idol and he is almost instantly too busy securing an agent, a book deal and the pursuit of a recording contract that he's too busy/distracted to show up at your campaign rally, does it make a ton of sense for you to in turn publically laud him as a hero?

If McCain had run a viable campaign with serious concern for serious issues while at the same time sidestepping the ridiculousness that has embroiled his campaign, it might have been a different result. That's not, however, the way things went down, and to blame the media is a juvenile attempt at maintaining the comfy but dangerous status quo of searing denial that too many in this country have wrapped themselves in for far too long.

If the press has been overwhelmingly in favor of covering Obama, it's because Obama has had more to say on the issues. McCain has been the light hearted break, kind of like watching a humorous commercial. He has nothing more the people want to hear, so he just runs laughable attack ads that a moron can see through.His plan for leading the country excludes most Americans in favor of the wealthy and the religious right, which got old really fast. Who wants four more years of Bush except the people who voted for Bush the last two elections.

People are tired of slaving for the wealthy and getting less and less for their efforts. Being asked to do the work of two or three people, less time for their families, bad health, stress and less benefits..., it goes on and on. McCain is one *** away from a heart attack and many thinking people are afraid of having an Evangelical Ayatollah in the White House. This isn't the fifteenth century. We'll all be required to have a big statue of Jesus in our bedrooms, no doubt outfitted with a camera in its eyes to make sure we are only having sex with in the parameters of a one man one woman marriage, using the missionary position and no birth control. Citizens with other proclivities will be burned at the stake.

If the GOP wants to save their party, they need to look into the "mirror of flaws" in themselves. It has become an "all-white" and predominantly "old and bald" group of seniors with a few rednecks and evangelicals thrown in. Pointing fingers at the media doesn't solve anything. They no longer "look like America". That's not the media's fault; the GOP did it to themselves.

Yeah...um...screw Wal-Mart. I'm pretty sure the Obama campaign is aware of the White Trash vote, and the fact that McCain/Palin are their idols. It won't stop Obama from winnikng by a landslide. Just as McCain's campaign people have screwed up every aspect of this campaign, they are wrong about this as well. Worst campaign in many years.

OBAMA/BIDEN 08
YES WE CAN CHANGE THE WORLD

We have had a long stretch of the Republican policies of trickle-down and deregulation... It has failed and cost the middle class in this country dearly. No matter what McCain now says, he has always been a champion of deregulation and the public knows it. So, with the exception of the hard-core Repulican faithful, the country is ready for someone to change the standing policies. This is what is going to hurt the Republican party this election. The numerous failures of the present administration have just added nails to the coffin.

It is not sexism when Wal Mart women (I shop there does that count) want a smart, knowledgeable, honest, woman as an official. Heck, I want a woman smarter than I am in government positions rather than trying to figure out the job description of VP. Pretty sad that she said she would take a job and does not even know what that job entails. Even Wal Mart women (and shoppers) are smarter than that!

I would be what is considered a "Wal-Mart" woman, although I detest having to spend what money I do make there.
McCain is a Republican and as far as I'm concerned, the Republican support of corporate greed over the years is what got us in this mess in the first place.
His choice of Palin as a running mate is frightful! It doesn't appear she could run Alaska and the thought of her being President should anything happen to McCain if he were elected President makes my hair turn white!
Oops - off to Wal-Mart for some inexpensive hair color!