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Subject to Debate

Pollitt, Katha | November 28, 1994 issue

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The article focuses on issues which effect women voters. The truth is, most women voters do not have a sense of collective interests that overrides their other concerns in a strong and consistent way. Women may admire a female candidate's dynamism, and may think government needs more women's voices. They may even believe that women candidates are more honest and caring and that they will fight harder for breast cancer research. But in the voting booth, most of them are going to act like the middle-class White suburbanites most of them are worried about their jobs and their children's futures in a dimming economy.

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WOMEN -- Psychology; VOTING; WOMEN political candidates; POLITICAL doctrines; MIDDLE class; WHITES
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