The Gender Gap

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Darla
You have to see this GIF! I love it so hard.

Vaginal Americans delivered

by digby

In all the sturm und drang in the media this morning about the Republicans' inability to attract anyone but white people, I'm not hearing a whole lot about this:
In total, the gender gap on Tuesday added up to 18 percent -- a significantly wider margin than the 12-point gender gap in the 2008 election.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that waging a campaign against contraception was probably a bad idea. Calling women who use contraception a bunch of "sluts" was even worse. Insisting that women bear their rapists children was just the last straw.

Many people said this was a silly distraction, unworthy of a national discussion when there are so many "important" issues to decide. But for individual American women, this was a highly personal insult --- a major political Party was treating them with a level of disdain so profound that they had to assume that something very serious was afoot.

And it was. The GOP takeover in 2010 was a preview of an extreme anti-woman agenda that could no longer be ignored. As many of their male allies seemed flummoxed, women all over the country fought back publicly. They voted in very large numbers. And a whole bunch of Democratic women won their races.

Word to the wise:
 
Myth No. 2: The gender gap is about the "war on women"
Carroll says the Obama campaign's focus on reproductive rights is ultimately a way to motivate women who already support Obama to vote on Election Day, rather than a way to sway women in the middle away from Romney. "The people in the base turn out the vote and they need to mobilize them," Carroll said. "Those issues, the fact that women might not be able to get contraception, that can help to motivate women in the base."
That prediction seems to be supported by polling. The latest ABC News/Washington Post tracking poll shows that the female gender gap in favor of Obama has held steady at 7 percentage points. Meanwhile, men back Romney by six points more than women, which keeps the race at a dead heat.
The 7-point female gap in favor of Obama is in line with the female-male spread that political scientists have observed for 30 years. (Women began consistently voting for Democrats in higher proportions than men starting in the 1980 presidential election between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan.)
 
Darla said:
You have to see this GIF! I love it so hard.

Vaginal Americans delivered

by digby

In all the sturm und drang in the media this morning about the Republicans' inability to attract anyone but white people, I'm not hearing a whole lot about this:
In total, the gender gap on Tuesday added up to 18 percent -- a significantly wider margin than the 12-point gender gap in the 2008 election.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that waging a campaign against contraception was probably a bad idea. Calling women who use contraception a bunch of "sluts" was even worse. Insisting that women bear their rapists children was just the last straw.

Many people said this was a silly distraction, unworthy of a national discussion when there are so many "important" issues to decide. But for individual American women, this was a highly personal insult --- a major political Party was treating them with a level of disdain so profound that they had to assume that something very serious was afoot.

And it was. The GOP takeover in 2010 was a preview of an extreme anti-woman agenda that could no longer be ignored. As many of their male allies seemed flummoxed, women all over the country fought back publicly. They voted in very large numbers. And a whole bunch of Democratic women won their races.

Word to the wise:
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Darla. You should lead Vaginal Americans national political action committee. I have a great name for it too. "Can't Understand Neanderthal Thinking."


Oh I am so going to die for this one!!
 
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vaginas my not wave in the breeze like nutsacks but they do not have to be tucked into a cup to get the hard work done.


face it we are just less vulnerable to a sack shot.

Kick us between the legs and you will hit pelvic bone and hurt your foot.


We bitches are tuff and we have compassion.


Many white men know this.

Its just republican white men who seem to NEVER understand anyone but other white republican men
 
evince said:
vaginas my not wave in the breeze like nutsacks but they do not have to be tucked into a cup to get the hard work done.


face it we are just less vulnerable to a sack shot.

Kick us between the legs and you will hit pelvic bone and hurt your foot.


We bitches are tuff and we have compassion.


Many white men know this.

Its just republican white men who seem to NEVER understand anyone but other white republican men
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But your vagina doesn't have a camel toe; it's got the whole foot. :D
 
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