Repubs have lost young women forever

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26. I spent election night with a handful of 30-something women

They all said the same thing, Obama voters every one of them. They didn't talk about Bill O'Reilly's "free stuff" or anything like that. It was all about the perception that the Republican Party is trying to force them back into the Dark Ages with regard to birth control, sexual norms, abortion rights, the role of women in the workplace, etc. etc. They talked about it all night and all of them were just absolutely furious about all the rape comments, the comments about Sandra Fluke made by Limpballs, the birth control fights, the panel of all-male doctors who testified before Congress. They perceive all of this behavior as condescending and aggressively sexist, and they absolutely refuse to take it.

Personally, I think that horse left the barn (women's rights, birth control, and so forth) 40 years ago, and there will be no putting it back in. Young women today have a lot of political and financial power, and they have no intention of giving it back to a bunch of old men.