Well, I’m not even a Yank and certainly don’t want to believe it. The whole article could have penned by Stereotype Central. Usborne says that <\/p>\n
…enormous numbers of women who previously favoured Barack Obama have had their heads turned since the introduction of Mrs Palin, according to a new ABC\/Washington Post poll.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Had their heads turned….. (!!!!) So American women apparently thought that nice Mr Obama was so charming but now they’re sticking up for the gals and want to see a hardworking mom win. <\/p>\n
(Cue Americanism.) Gimme a break. Why didn’t Hillary Clinton get chosen then, if femaleness is all it takes to engage women voters?<\/p>\n
Approximately half of the population is male. Are the guys now supposed to be rooting for Obama solely because he can’t bear his own offspring? <\/p>\n
The single, low-income women who turned out for Mrs Clinton \u2013 some 18 million \u2013 are increasingly balanced by Republican women, ecstatic about Mrs Palin’s deeply conservative religious views.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Excuse me if I misunderstand US politics even more than usual, but doesn’t “Republican women” mean “women who identify with the Republican party?” Wouldn’t that make them McCain voters anyway, even if he had indeed picked a farmyard animal wearing Max Factor lipstick as a running mate? <\/p>\n
As the BBC reported, the rest of the world is unsurprisingly not “ecstatic” about “deeply conservative religious views.” <\/p>\n
USA, we respect your exotic tribal culture and your quaint religious beliefs and all that, but please don’t let them spill out on the rest of us.<\/p>\n