The right hopes this issue will go away, because Akin fucked up when he said what many of 'em believe, and it's going to cost them votes...
As a legislator, Akin has a record on abortion that is largely indistinguishable from those of most of his Republican House colleagues, who have viewed restricting abortion rights as one of their top priorities.
Republicans are worried about the political fallout from Akin’s comment.
Rush Limbaugh said "He needs to get out for the good of the party, for the good of the country, for the good of the presidential campaign, and we gotta defeat Obama.
Single women are one of the country’s fastest-growing demographic groups — there are 1.8 million more now than just two years ago.
They make up a quarter of the voting-age population nationally, and even more in several swing states, including Nevada.
In a recent
New York Times/CBS News poll, single women favored Obama over his Republican rival, Mitt Romney, by 29 points...
http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/22/blow-all-the-single-ladies/
Bump the shit out of this thread. Make the righties own up to their war on women.