Women at the polls are going to make Republicans pay

[kpete]

American women will carry the day
GOP's gender problem


Next Tuesday, radical Republicans will be surprised if they think American women will let them get away with what they have said and what they believe: about rape, contraception, equal pay. They can deny all they want, but it is all on the public record, the crazy statements of Todd Akin, Richard Mourdock and all the rest.

Hiding behind their faith, these zealots have sought to take away the very rights women fought for throughout the long, hard decades of the 20th century.

In this camp are also Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan—no matter how much they deny it.

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Come next Tuesday’s election, we will see that radiance rise again. American women are too slick to be hustled by an obvious game — just watch.



http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/american-women-carry-day-article-1.1193378#ixzz2Aqr4AoXL

[justiceischeap]

1. I really hope so, kpete, I hope so.

Women can be just like anyone else, voting against their own best self-interest. Same as gay republicans. Ideology is like a creeping disease in this country. I fear a lot of women will let their Republic ideology inform their decision and their vote. That said, I think the Republic party has managed to do what no other party has done in some time, piss off a lot of women and men with their outright contemptuousness towards women.

[GETTINGTIRED]

2. Deservedly So...

WE.....can show them better than we can tell them

[newfie11]

3. they can't pay enough

I hope everyone of those idiots is defeated.

[Coyotl]

4. Republicans have really enhanced the GOTV effort on this front, motivating women to kick their

prejudices back to the Stone Age.

I expect women to outvote men by near 10 million this year.

Voter turnout rates for women exceeds rates for men.
Women constitute more than half the population.
Since 1980, female voters have exceeded the proportion of males who vote.

In 2004, 60.1% of women and 56.3% of men voted, + 8.8 million.
In 2000, 56.2% of women and 53.1% of men voted, + 7.8 million.
In 1996, 55.5% of women and 52.8% of men voted, + 7.2 million.

Source:
Who's More Likely to Vote - Women or Men?
Gender Differences and Voter Turnout - Women Take Voting Seriously
http://womensissues.about.com/od/thepoliticalarena/a/GenderVoting.htm

[Delphinus]

5. Please, please, please, please, please.

Praying that you are right!

[southernyankeebelle]

6. I sure pray you are right. Today its birth control and pay issues for women. Tommorrow it

could be trying to take away the voting rights from women, minorities and working poor. We must be aware of what they are doing.

[Comrade_McKenzie]

7. I hope it leads to some surprises. It'd be nice to retake the House. nt

[Squinch]

8. To a point. We're 51% of the population, and we're still going to have a Republican House.

[rock]

9. I have thought for some time now

that the polls have a very hard bias to overcome: if the wife is talking to the pollster (say on the phone or at the front door) with the RepubliCON red-neck husband close by, mightn't she make it sound like she's voting with him? Bottom line, I think the polls have miscalculated with the women's votes.