NOW PAC Getting Out Vote for Obama-Biden: Best Ticket for Women

October 24, 2008

By Kim Gandy, NOW President and NOW PAC Chair

Election season is down to the wire, and NOW members all over the country are turning out to put muscle behind the NOW PAC's endorsement of the Obama-Biden ticket.

The NOW Action Center is buzzing with efforts to get out the feminist vote on Nov. 4. Organizers are in the field, phone banks are operating, and volunteers are reaching out to elect Barack Obama and the 91 women's rights supporters endorsed by NOW PAC for Congress, as well as defeat anti-women state ballot measures. Email campaigns are targeting battleground states such as Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, Colorado and Virginia, where turning out volunteers and voters can make a difference.

Despite this reality, John McCain's campaign is making a deliberate effort to blunt the impact of our Obama endorsement by exploiting the personal support Sarah Palin has received from a few individuals who have inappropriately allowed their local NOW titles to be used. Despite false reports in the press, no NOW chapter has expressed support for the McCain-Palin ticket, and thousands of NOW activists are enthusiastically phone banking, emailing and knocking on doors for the Obama campaign.

These activists understand that although Palin has benefited from NOW's 42 years of work for women's rights, she is no feminist and would cheerfully assist John McCain in continuing the work of the Bush administration to undermine women's rights.