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“Do not depend on the hope of results. When you are doing the sort of work you have taken on, essentially an apostolic work, you may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself,” – Thomas Merton, “Letter To A Young Activist”
Source: Playing the blame game: how is it that women (Shannon, Hillary, Martha) blamed for running a bad campaign? Why is it so hard to be likable?
The Players:
Shannon O’Brien – former MA State Treasurer, ran for governorship and lost against Romney in 2002.
Hillary Clinton – former First Lady and Senator from NY, ran for President in 2008 and lost to Barack Obama in the primaries.
Martha Coakley – AG of MA, ran for Senate in 2009-2010, lost to Republican Scott Brown.
The issue: How are women blamed for running bad campaigns? Is it because they are not likable?
The problem: The women listed above are blamed for running bad campaigns because they ran bad campaigns (although, I will not speak for Shannon on this issue). Clinton and Coakley ran horrific campaigns – wasting money and time that could have been used to win. Yeah, politicos also argue that these two had problems with the likability factor. But seriously, campaigns mean everything (unless you’re one of those political scientists that assumes that it’s all decided even before the election begins). These two ran bad campaigns and they were not likable – two strikes.
I think it’s a stretch to say that because they were women they were not likable and therefore lost. Women have come a long way in the political arena and while we still have a longer way to go (more Senate seats, more governorships, more justiceships, the presidency), putting ourselves down by deeming likability as the reason we lost is not going to help us gain credibility.
