Republicans Lost the War With Women the Moment They Declared It

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from truthdig:



Republicans Lost the War With Women the Moment They Declared It

Posted on Sep 27, 2012
By Peter Z. Scheer


A new Quinnipiac University/CBS News/New York Times poll has the voting women of Ohio giving Barack Obama 25 points over Mitt Romney. In Pennsylvania, women prefer Obama by 21 points and in Florida the president has a 19-point advantage, according to the same poll. That might have something to do with the war on women Republicans have been accidentally waging this summer. Well, the war is not accidental—it’s quite intentional—it just wasn’t meant to be this public.

Let’s talk about women.

My grandmother didn’t think her daughter needed to go to college. Mom could find a husband to provide for her. She went anyway and worked her way through school until she got herself a “copyboy” job at the Los Angeles Times at a time when women, if they were hired to write at all, wrote about clothes and food.

My mom became a reporter, an editor, a bureau chief, an edition chief, an associate editor in charge of 10 sections and a vice president of a company that, when she got there, thought she might be an aspiring secretary. ..............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/republicans_lost_the_war_with_women_the_moment_they_declared_it_20120927/

[xchrom]

1. du rec. Nt

[bemildred]

2. It's like Pelosi said, they can't count, that would be giving in. mt

[efhmc]

3. Did they really think because their female rightwingers cohorts are

willing to be treated as subjects that the majority of the other American female voters in this country are okay with this behavior?

[Demeter]

4. This war has been going on for millenia

The GOP is just the latest face of the enemy.

And the war isn't over. This particular battle isn't even over.

[RainDog]

5. k&r n/t

[Stuart G]

6. I read recently that a certain male runninf for senator..said,

something like, that lady did not act ladylike in the debates...I guess that man hasn't got a clue..good.
that senate seat seems safe...espcially after this last comment.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. The worrying thing is that Romney still has a lead among men

In Gallup's national tracker, from May to the end of August, Romney was between 6 and 10% ahead, for all male voters. In the most recent results, that's now down to +3.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/154559/US-Presidential-Election-Center.aspx

From June onwards, Obama has been from 8 to 10% ahead of Romney for female voters.