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PearliePoo2

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2. You're most welcome! I agree, it's a very good article!
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 07:10 AM
Jun 2016

Here's another snip:

"By March, the often hard-earned wisdom of such women was reflected in a raft of public-opinion polls in which an extraordinary number of female voters registered an “unfavorable” or “negative” impression of the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee. Reporting on Trump’s “rock-bottom ratings” with prospective women voters, Politico termed the unfavorable poll numbers—67 percent (Fox News), 67 percent (Quinnipiac University), 70 percent (NBC/Wall Street Journal), 73 percent (ABC/Washington Post)—“staggering.” In April, The Daily Wire labeled similar results in a Bloomberg poll of married women likely to vote in the general election “amazing.” Seventy percent of them stated that they would not vote for Trump.

His campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, seemed untroubled by such polls, claiming that “women don’t vote based on gender” but on “competency,” apparently convinced that it was only a matter of time before female voters awoke to the dazzling competency of his candidate.

Think again, Mr. Lewandowski. Since at least the 1970s, women have been voting on the basis of gender—not that of the presidential candidates (all men), but their own. Historically, women and children have been more likely than men to benefit from the sorts of social-welfare programs generally backed by Democrats, including Aid to Families with Dependent Children. Even after, in the 1990s, both parties connived to scale back or shut down such programs, a majority of women stayed with Democrats who advocated positions like equal pay for equal work, reproductive rights, improved early childhood education, affordable healthcare, universal childcare, and paid parental leave—programs of special interest to families of all ethnic groups and, with rare exceptions, opposed by Republicans.










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