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From: rgvdh@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Gilles van der Heide)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: MS letter
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Date: 2 Jan 91 02:31:40 GMT
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>A MS. OPEN LETTER ON THE PERSIAN GULF CRISIS
> [...]
>We are angry at and weary of the way gender gaps in U.S. public opinion
>are consistently ignored. Soon after the Gulf crisis began, CBS News Poll
>showed 43 percent of women disapprove of the use of U.S. troops to force
>Iraq from Kuwauit, as compared to 29 percent of men.

Doesn't say what percantage is "don't care".  Unless it's remarkably
large for a question of this importance, a majority of women favor use
of use of U.S. troops.  Smaller than the majority of men but still a
majority.

Kind of reminds me of the last presidential election, in which Bush
got a large majority of men and a smaller majority of women, after
which the question was not "why do women not vote like the Republican
Party?", but "why do men loath the Democratic Party even more than
women do?".

As a Democrat I think that's an important question.

-RGvdH

"No war for oil!  Build more nuclear power plants!"