Women have only been legally guaranteed the right to vote for 96 years. And on Tuesday, millions of women across the country—some of whom were alive when women’s suffrage was still a pipe dream—will finally have the opportunity to vote a woman into the United States’ highest office. We spoke with a few of our older relatives and friends about what this election means to them, and what it’s like to vote for a woman for the first time (or not). Carol Rothkopf, 87, writer and editor in Summit, New Jersey I voted for Hillary Clinton by absentee ballot. There was never a moment’s hesitation as she is indisputably the best qualified candidate for the presidency in this race (not to mention previous ones). She has worked for the public good all her life and served with distinction as First Lady, two-term senator from New York, and Secretary of State. Her experience and intelligence put her in another class, indeed almost on another planet, compared to the Male Chauvinist Pig, or MCP as [we] used to call his type, whose political experience is nil. A draft dodger, tax evader, six-time abuser of the bankruptcy laws, and pretend philanthropist whose only… Read full this story
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