Pence -- and Trump's problem with women voters
By Katie Zezima
July 16 at 8:38 AM
... Pence has endorsed controversial legislation on abortion, gay rights and immigration both in Indiana and while in Congress, where he was consistently ranked as one of the most right-leaning members of the House. He attempted to shut down the government over Planned Parenthood funding, supported a measure that made English the nation’s official language and signed one of the nation’s strictest abortion laws earlier this year ...
A Washington Post-ABC News poll last month found that 77 percent of women had an unfavorable impression of Trump, including 65 percent who saw him in a “strongly unfavorable” light. Trump’s negative ratings among women are more than 20 percentage points higher than 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney received at any point in that year’s campaign ...
The addition of Pence tacks the GOP ticket far to the right on gay issues as well. Trump had been hailed by some as the most gay-friendly Republican nominee in history; he has long spoken with sympathy toward gays and lesbians. Pence has long opposed gay marriage and sparked a firestorm by signing a “religious liberty” law last year that many viewed as anti-gay ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-had-a-problem-with-women-voters-pence-could-make-it-even-worse/2016/07/15/6ee5dcc8-4a01-11e6-acbc-4d4870a079da_story.html
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Isn't that EXACTLY what we need right now?
What with a big chunk of the world on fire over religion, with the whole Christianity versus Islam thing going on in wrong-wing circles anyway, don't we NEED a religious extremist, one of those "Christianist" creationist, climate-change-denying, gay-hating, women's-choice-hating Neanderthals who believe it's their mission to shove their brand of belief down everybody's throats with the force of law and political positioning behind them.
