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struggle4progress

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Sat Feb 17, 2018, 03:25 AM Feb 2018

An army of fired-up women

By Adam C. Smith 13 hours ago

... "My husband used to say, 'You're always on the phone, every morning for like an hour,' I'd tell him, 'Well, I'm running a revolution,' " quipped Tampa attorney Erin Aebel, who last year helped launch Surly Feminists for the Revolution, which has 15,000 Facebook followers organizing for or against candidates, raising money, firing off emails and making phone calls to elected officials ...

"When I go door to door in my neighborhood, people don't even let me finish my sentence before they take my flier and ask, 'Where is this event, when is it, and can I bring four friends?' When they get that this is helping a Democratic surge in 2018, they're like, 'Okay, I'm there.' I think we're headed for a very big year," said Smith ...

The Republican Party of Florida declined to comment for this story ...

More than 4 in 10 college educated, white women voted for Trump in 2016, but a national ABC-Washington Post poll last month found just 27 percent approved of his job performance.

http://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2018/02/16/an-army-of-fired-up-women-is-coming-after-trump/

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An army of fired-up women (Original Post) struggle4progress Feb 2018 OP
I hope there will be a landslide! Canoe52 Feb 2018 #1
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