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O’Donnell Dodges Evolution Question, Accuses Coons Of Upholding “Tenants” Of Marxism
(Hillary Busis, Mediaite.com, October 13th, 2010)

Tonight’s Christine O’Donnell-Chris Coons debate started out a little dull—barring one SNL-related hiccup. Things started to heat up, though, when moderator Wolf Blitzer began asking O’Donnell how her faith would influence her policies as Senator from Delaware. Specifically, Blitzer cited a remark O’Donnell made to Bill Maher in the ’90s before asking her, point blank, “Do you believe evolution is a myth?” Here’s a play-by-play of what happened next.

O’Donnell was flustered, stuttering that she had been speaking about “what a local school taught” rather than airing her own opinion. When she tried to move on, Blitzer pressed her again to answer the question.

She declined for a second time, saying only, “Local schools should make that decision.” When Blitzer asked her once more what she believed, O’Donnell finally replied in a substantial way—and though she declined to say definitively whether or not she believes in evolution, her answer implied where she stands on this issue.

“What I believe is irrelevant,” O’Donnell began. “What I will support in Washington, D.C. is the ability for the local school system to decide what is taught in their classrooms. And what I was talking about on that show was a classroom that was not allowed to teach creationism as an equal theory as evolution. That is against their Constitutional rights, and that is an overreaching of the arms of the government.”

The GOP candidate then changed the subject, bringing up remarks Coons has made about studying under a Marxist professor. According to O’Donnell, this means that her opponent is, basically, a sickle-wielding Stalinist: “When you look at his position on things like raising taxes–which is one of the tenants [sic] of Marxism—not supporting eliminating the death tax, which is a tenant of Marxism, I would would argue that there are more people that support my Catholic faith than his Marxist beliefs.” As she spoke, Coons raised his eyebrows and mouthed “wow.” When O’Donnell finished, the debate’s audience—students from the University of Delaware—booed.

When the Democratic Coons spoke again, he explained how a remark he had made in an article he wrote in college—about friends calling him a “bearded Marxist”—was meant to be a joke. “I am not now, nor have I ever been, anything but a clean-shaven capitalist,” he concluded, as the audience laughed.

What Coons didn’t do, though, was dispute O’Donnell’s accusation that he had studied with a Marxist professor. According to the Republican candidate, “That should send chills up the spine of every Delaware voter, because then if you compare that statement to your policies—”

“If it were accurate, if it were true, I’d agree,” interrupted Coons.

Hes much more an effective debator than she.

The "hatch" of mayfly adults causes many trout to go nuts and go into a feeding frenzy.

When O’Donnell finished, the debate’s audience—students from the University of Delaware—booed.

Of all the reallybright and educated women out there, Im amazed that the GOP is busy celebrating these two lameheads.

Continuing a pattern established in the 2000 elections, married women supported the conservative, pro-life candidate for President (Senator McCain) while unmarried women supported the liberal, pro-abortion candidate (Senator Obama). According to Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research’s (GQR) analysis of the Edison/Mitofsky National Election Pool numbers, there was a 44-point difference in the voting patterns of married women and unmarried women. GQR concludes that the overwhelming support of unmarried women made Barack Obama the president-elect rather than John McCain.

Unmarried women supported Barack Obama by a 70-to-29 percent margin, and they voted for Democratic House candidates by a similar margin — 64-to-29 percent. These margins mean that unmarried women edged out both younger voters and Hispanic voters as the demographic with the strongest support for President-elect Obama. These unmarried women voters joined with younger voters and people of color to create what GQR calls a “new American electorate” — voters with a decided preference for liberal candidates.

Overall, women strongly supported Senator Obama over Senator McCain (56 percent for Obama, 43 percent for McCain). Men split their votes about evenly between the two presidential candidates, with 49 percent for Obama and 48 percent for McCain.

Gender played a bigger role in the 2008 presidential campaign than ever before with Senator Hillary Clinton almost beating Senator Barack Obama as the presidential nominee for the Democrats and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as the Republican vice-presidential candidate. Throughout the election cycle, candidates sought the so-called “women’s vote.” Pundits grimaced when Hillary famously lost her iron control in the New Hampshire primary and almost shed tears talking about the rigors of campaigning.

Newsweek ran a cover story promising to reveal “What Women Want,” and dozens of polls tallied up people’s attitudes toward female candidates. With over 18 million supporters, Senator Clinton ran the most competitive runner-up campaign in history and broke down numerous barriers with her professional demeanor on the campaign trail. She famously said that she was responsible for 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling.

That's because most people are irrational.

The proof is evidenced from their belief in the fairy tale about gods

over 80% of Americans believe in one god or another.

Everybody knows that we men are much more effective debaters than our womenfolk.

The commentators are like Robespierre. They need to know which way the mob is going in order to take up the correct position.

I do not mean to come across wrong

Not true, Spendi...women use words to determine emotions in others and to express how they feel.

You've probably confused Robespierre with Danton. Robespierre was looking for the direction of the mob in order to lead it.