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Juan Williams: Dems now party of women
12/02/13 06:00 AM EST
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Over the last decade, Democrats have tried to widen the gap by charging the GOP with conducting a War on Women. There are several fronts in that war, Democrats say: Republicans oppose easy access to contraception, oppose abortion rights and oppose expansion of entitlements to help the poor (who are disproportionately women and children).
A 2012 Pew survey found that 57 percent of women favor Democrats. Young, single, gay, minority and pro-abortion-rights women have been with the party for a while. Older, white, married women lean to the GOP. But now married, churchgoing women living in cities are also voting for Democrats.
That explains why an October ABC/Fusion poll found 60 percent of Democrats want more women elected to Congress. Republicans do not see the need. Only 26 percent of conservatives and 23 percent of Republicans want more women in Congress.
The two politicians who produce the most passionate response among Democrats, according to a recent Quinnipiac poll, are former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). They stirred the Democratic base more than President Obama or Vice President Biden. Women are the future of the party.
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Scuba
(53,475 posts)They've been accusing Democrats of being unmanly since McCarthy at least. Largely because we don't like war as much as they do (although we get in our fair share of them).
Bryant
JimboBillyBubbaBob
(1,389 posts)I have your Democrat dangling Buddy!
duffyduff
(3,251 posts)The makeup of the rank-and-file means nothing at all.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Though I mean between the two...