For Clinton, the general election is about married women. Starting in swing-state Virginia. [View all]

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Note that this article is talking about the GE.





For Clinton, the general election is about married women. Starting in swing-state Virginia.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clinton-launches-general-election-swing-in-va-with-a-big-focus-on-women/2016/05/08/78f4f6e2-14cb-11e6-81b4-581a5c4c42df_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_clintonwoman-1139am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory




Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton meets staff and volunteers at her campaign field office in downtown Oakland, Calif., on Friday. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)
By Anne Gearan May 8 at 8:00 AM

In the fight for the votes of suburban women, there is no more representative place than Loudoun County, the ticket-splitting bedroom community in swing-state Virginia that Hillary Clinton will visit Monday — and no better foil for her argument, perhaps, than Donald Trump.

Affluent suburban women are a key audience for Clinton, the Democratic front-runner, as she seeks to use Trump’s polarizing statements about women, immigrants and others against him. Clinton will hold a discussion about jobs, schools and other concerns in a bellwether county that narrowly supported President Obama’s reelection in 2012 and helped elect a Republican critic of Obama, Rep. Barbara Comstock, to Congress two years later......................

The district is ground zero for Virginia and perhaps for the nation in the general election, said Dan Scandling, a Republican strategist who was chief of staff to Comstock’s longtime predecessor, Republican Frank R. Wolf.

“You have upwardly mobile, younger professional women,” who moved to Loudoun County for good schools and more affordable housing than in the closer-in suburbs that are more reliably Democratic, Scandling said........................


Although many suburban women identify as Republican or independent, they often vote on the kinds of pocketbook issues Clinton is emphasizing in her presidential bid — workplace flexibility and fair pay for female workers, accessible health care, and affordable college tuition.

These voters have long displayed a willingness to look past ideological bright lines, and this year, that could favor Clinton, whose open courtship is a bet that women who would not support her otherwise will be driven there by Trump.....................