Binder full of Women

Would anyone want to be classified this way?

I believe at this point, everyone is aware of who they're going to vote for. I found this evident last night as I was watching the debates with my friends, that each person's bias resulted in hearing comments from each candidate differently.

But not this one:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/17/romney-binders-full-of-women

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Denigrating women to this level will surely put a bad taste in most people's mouth, male or female. Affirmative action is alive and well in our country, but a candidate needs to know how to state this idea in a way that does not come off as condescending.

And the initial request to find female candidates didn't even happened:

Here's what actually happened, according to the Boston Phoenix's David Bernstein:

What actually happened was that in 2002 – prior to the election, not even knowing yet whether it would be a Republican or Democratic administration – a bipartisan group of women in Massachusetts formed MassGAP to address the problem of few women in senior leadership positions in state government. There were more than 40 organizations involved with the Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus (also bipartisan) as the lead sponsor.

They did the research and put together the binder full of women qualified for all the different cabinet positions, agency heads, and authorities and commissions. They presented this binder to Governor Romney when he was elected.

I have written about this before, in various contexts; tonight I've checked with several people directly involved in the MassGAP effort who confirm that this history as I've just presented it is correct – and that Romney's claim tonight, that he asked for such a study, is false.Here's what actually happened, according to the Boston Phoenix's David Bernstein:

He also came off as rude to the female moderator, Candy Crowley.

site: http://www.guardian.co.uk

It is hard to accept this man to be our leader and represent our great nation.

Romny being Romney
site:  http://www.guardian.co.uk

Another topic that came up in my group of friends is Top Down Economics. Most of my friends have graduate degrees and understands this concept, but how many average Americans understand this idea the candidates keep referring to? They might as well bust out Keynesian economics and see who nods.

There were a lot of topics of interest: the use of Planned Parenthood in about every other sentence from Obama, the economy that Obama was given vs the politics that he used, etc.

What did you think of the debates? Did you find it informative or did you also find that most people had their biases regardless of what the candidates said?