Digby calls it "Affinity For Stupidity"

Good points here, that I couldn't have said better myself. Here is Digby at Hullabaloo, with a link to Jane Hamsher, on "affinity" voters.

They can't let it go. Jane Hamsher highlights another bozo implying that there's something wrong with appealing to female voters:

And here we go again. Tim Dickinson, editor of Rollingstone.com's National Affairs Daily:

There's only one thing that makes sense of the Clinton campaign's clumsy and classless injection of race into her primary battle with Barack Obama. And that is that her victory in New Hampshire -- impressive though it was -- threatened to transform her into a special-interest candidate.

Hillary would not have won that battle without exaggerated support from women. Despite having campaigned vigorously as a candidate who just-so-happened to be a woman, her lifeline came from affinity voters.

Hello, ladies! You may make up 57% of the Democratic voters in Iowa and New Hampshire, but you're "affinity voters." Congratulations.

Geez, that's annoying. He goes on to say that nobody's talking about Hillary's shocking inability to win over the hearts and minds of male voters. (No word on why both of the male candidates are having such a terrible time winning over the hearts and minds of the women.)

Apparently winning the votes of women equals pandering to some sort of single issue special interest group. I hate to tell him but women are more than 50% of the population and even a bigger majority in the Democratic Party so it's actually more valid to say that men are the special interest group, not women. If you wanted to be an idiot like this fellow, that is.

I encourage you to read the full post.