New Hampshire: Euronews point of view

New Hampshire Elections: Euronews (LACKING) point of view.

Unfortunately Euronews didn't write any article about the election in New Hampshire even if the fact is  socially and politically very interesting. For the first time an USA's State will have an all female delegation.
In my opinion this election is important because it represents how the world is changing: people are beginning to open their own mind and to fight the male chauvinism that kept our societies stuck in a big mistake which is to underestimate the "weaker sex".
Euronews basically gave information about the general aspects of the presidential elections and then about Obama's election (here an example http://www.euronews.com/2012/11/07/obama-re-elected-as-us-president/).
Personally I'm offended by Euronews inaccuracy. I think this was a great topic of conversation that would have caught the interest of many people.


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US election: The power of women (The peculiar case of New Hampshire) - BBC’s point of view

On BBC News Magazine the journalist Kate Dailey explained in her article that women with their vote have made win Obama and at the same time lose Romney.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20231337

    “When Republican candidates were caught making clumsy statements about rape and abortion, their supporters called the ensuing uproar a "distraction" from the real issues.

 But in this election, it became abundantly clear that women's issues are not fringe issues, and women are not a special interest group. Instead it was women who cast the bulk of the votes this election - 53%, and women who proved the deciding factor, breaking in Barack Obama's favour by 11 percentage points.

 At the same time, a historic number of female representative were elected, including the first openly gay senator (Tammy Baldwin, Wisconsin), the first Asian-American female senator (Mazie Hirono, Hawaii) and the first female military veteran wounded in combat (Representative Tammy Duckworth, Illinois)”.

 ( Kate Dailey, US election: Women are the new majority, BBC News Magazine, Washington)

  The article appoints the peculiar case of New Hampshire’s elections. New Hampshire will be the first state to send an all-female delegation to Congress. This is an historic result but in the article this is only mentioned.
For BBC it is more important pointing out the different approach that the two parties have had with female electorate. We can see a criticism of how Republicans have made their campaign. They didn’t have considered women power and their point of view.

  “Mitt Romney, to his credit, tried to tap into the power of female votes during the campaign by promising that a strong economy would mean better wages for women and more opportunity for female advancement. It wasn't enough. Women, says the pollster Norm Ornstein, are just as concerned with the economy as men. But their view of the economy tends to be more complex - they want both a robust employment rate and a strong social safety net if things go wrong.”

 ( Kate Dailey, US election: Women are the new majority, BBC News Magazine, Washington)

The trump card is precisely this. In Democratic Party the majority is constituted by female and minority candidates. They are women who talk to women. In Republican Party we have many fewer women. 

 Men and women split between the candidates: overall, 55% of women voted for Mr Obama, 44% for Mr Romney. For men, 52% voted for Mr Romney and 45% for Mr Obama.
In 2008, Mr Obama gained a higher percentage of the male vote (49%) and a similar percentage of the female vote (56%).
However, there was a division between married and unmarried women: 53% of married women voted for the Republican candidate, while Mr Obama won unmarried women two-to-one: 67% to 31%.
Overall, women make up more of the electorate - 53% - slightly more than their share of the US population.

These women made up 23% of the electorate this year, and they broke overwhelmingly for Obama, 67-31. (Married women preferred Romney 53-46.)

  ( Kate Dailey, US election: Women are the new majority, BBC News Magazine, Washington)

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New Hampshire Elections: France 24's point of view

For the first time, one of the federated state of the United States will be represented by an all-female delegation, id est two Congresswomen, two Senators and the State's Governor.

France 24 completely ignored this particular news; in fact, this media focused the work mostly on the pre-election, describing how the two candidates concluded their campaigns.

During the last Tuesday, the channel's website opened a liveblog (here, http://www.france24.com/en/20121106-liveblog-usa-votes-after-bitter-battle-tightly-fought-race-obama-romney-election-day) in which journalists and bloggers reported news, updates and impressions. The New Hampshire's situation wasn't cited neither in this page, with only a reference about the biggest-ever amount of  female Senators.

I find the France 24's choice to drop an aspect like this very unfortunate because minor stories often can help to complete the big scheme of the events.


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New Hampshire Elections: Al Jazeera's point of view

'Women win big in New Hampshire vote', this is the main title of the article appeared on the Official Al Jazeera Live Blog on the 7th November 2012. A short article, based on 'Reuters' news agency, talking about the election of a female Democrat governor, Maggie Hassan, and two women to represent New Hampshire in the US House of Representatives, Democrats Ann McLane Kuster and Carol Shea-Porter.

The article ends with a curt quote by Governor Hassan, saying that "Together, we will build a stronger, more innovative New Hampshire".

We can see that the language used by the journalist (whose name is not even specified) is impersonal and hasty, maybe because the news has just been copied from the Reuters Agency.

The article was in the Official Al Jazeera Blog, and not in the Official Website, and no photos or insights have been added.

http://blogs.aljazeera.com/topic/us-election-2012/women-win-big-new-hampshire-vote

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