Women voters shifted Republican in midterm election

[Bluebear]

They just want President Palin! :cry: ( :sarcasm: )

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Unmarried women in particular had been one of Democrats' most reliable bases. Some cited a lack of progress on fixing the economy; others had concerns over abortion rights in the healthcare law...

That's in part because married women, who usually split their vote between the two parties, leaned more strongly Republican this year, according to Democratic voter surveys.

But Democrats also lost ground among single women, historically one of the party's most loyal demographic groups. Unmarried women still voted overwhelmingly for Democratic candidates this year, but by a narrower margin than in recent elections.

That's because half of white, unmarried women voted Republican this year, up from 39% in the last two election cycles, according to a poll by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research.

Liberal women's advocates and Democratic strategists said the falloff in female support spoke to a failure by President Obama and Democratic leaders to prove they had a plan to ease their financial stresses.

"I think women just did not see an economic narrative that was meaningful to them," said pollster Celinda Lake. "It really has to speak to the kitchen table. It can't just speak to banks and Wall Street."

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/nov/09/nation/la-na-midterm-women-20101109

[Proud Liberal Dem]

1. Abortion rights in the healthcare law

They don't like the restrictions in the new healthcare law so they help elect a batch of politicians in response that are not only never going to repeal such restrictions but will actually add to them? :banghead:

[speppin]

3. Maybe if the entire law

is repealed, the Dems, when in charge again (it will happen-who knows when??), will have learned their lesson and start over with single payer and health care for all women??? Just maybe!!

[Gaedel]

7. Start with

Moving medicare down to age fifty paid by increasing the Medicare tax.

That would take a lot of pressure off the system both for employer insurance and for individual policies.

[Burma Jones]

2. It was all about turnout

Only 62% of the number of votes cast in 2008 were cast in 2010. Typical off year election, only the angry turn out, not the disappointed.

Here's a quote from a New Yorker column this week:

"In 2008, a little more than fifty-three per cent of the electorate opted for Democratic candidates for the House; in 2010, a little less than fifty-three per cent opted for Republicans. But, if the mirror-image division was essentially equivalent, the electorates were not. The one that dealt Democrats the blow this year was dramatically smaller than the one that put them in office."

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2010/11/15/101115taco_talk_hertzberg

[Darth_Kitten]

5. I can see rich, comfortable, married women leaning Republican....

but not every woman has a crutch to lean on. Some of us women work for a living, and have things like bills to pay. :sarcasm:

[BeFree]

9. Yep...turnout

The pubbies won because they got their people to the polls and the Dems did not.

Pubbies overwhelmed the Dem voters.

The Dems flat chickened out and refused to vote and the pubbies smashed the Dems.

A majority anti-Obama, anti-Pelosi, and anti-Peace people voted and the for peace people stayed home sucking their thumbs.

[Bluebear]

11. Indeed. But at DU I first read it was teh gays fault, then Latinos. Now it's women.

Some people want to blame different constituency groups for our election losses. God forbid they look at how to serve those constituencies better!

[Rage for Order]

12. Well, obviously it was the fault of gay Latino women

It just took a couple of weeks to pull all the disparate pieces together into a cohesive picture of blame.

:silly:

[EFerrari]

15. Actually, it was just me.

lol

[truebrit71]

16. I think actually it was OLD gay latino women, but I see your point...

...:evilgrin:

[Burma Jones]

17. Fuck Blame

That's all those piece of Shit Talking Heads on 24 hour Cable News outlets can do for a fucking living and then you hear all that fucking shit parroted here.

If you care, you vote. If you want to protest, you still fucking vote. If you want Tea Baggers and Palinites all up in your shit, you don't vote.



This pisses me off to no end. I should be, per demographics, a typical greed-head Country Club Republican. I do not vote for only my interests, this is an entire fucking country you know and we all have some responsibility for each other, and the easiest way to exercise that responsibility we have to everyone else is to vote.

[Crazy Dave]

18. Rec+

[EFerrari]

13. We were down between 2-3% points from 2006. n/t

[Rectangle]

4. Ok. But can someone tell me what the Republican plan was/is to ease

their financial stress ??
Tax cuts for the top 1%?
Cutting off unemployment?
Taking a chainsaw to SS and Medicare?
Giveaways to the Banksters,Oil/coal industries, Insurance
lobbies, MIC ect.. ?
What did women see in all that?
What was the Republican/Teabagger narrative
to women exactly?

:shrug:

[Darth_Kitten]

6. Narrative? Vote for us, and then sit back and shut up.

Love how they are already turning on Palin. This is great theatre. :)

[Ezlivin]

8. When are women going to man up?

I swear that a Republican woman must be as dumb as an ox to believe that Palin or any of her ilk are truly interested in women's rights.

Do they realize that the men in their party would like nothing better than to see their voting rights removed and their place as second-class citizens fully restored?

It boggles the mind....

[Brewman_Jax]

10. I guess they want a return to these days...

They keep forgetting that the "good ol' days" weren't that good. :(

[truebrit71]

14. Any woman, and I mean ANY woman that voted for a republican needs their fucking head examined...

..HEY LADIES, THEY WANT TO TAKE YOUR RIGHTS AWAY....what is so hard to understand?