RealClearPolitics: The GOP Is Not Losing Women Over Contraception
- Posted on April 2, 2012 at 7:00pm by
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Multiple progressive outlets have recently seized on a poll that seems to show Republicans losing ground in the fight over female voters, which they attribute to the recent fight over the Obama administration’s contraception mandate currently being waged in Congress. However, RealClearPolitics has an article out today pointing out all the reasons why that particular diagnosis is not only alarmist, but dead wrong in almost every conceivable way:
The contraception firestorm concerned substantive differences over women’s health policy, feminism, religious liberty and abortion. But the heated debate over women’s issues, which began at the close of January, did not cost Republicans women’s support. Quinnipiac and Public Policy Polling (D) exhibit the same trend. Gallup found that Romney actually improved with women between mid-December and mid-February, a few weeks into the contraception debate. Obama’s job performance rating with women, in the Gallup poll, has remained steady throughout the debate, bobbing around 50 percent since the beginning of the year.[...]
Republicans should be concerned. The GOP nominee cannot win with only 37 percent of the female vote. Yet early head-to-head polls are not historically predictive. George W. Bush, like Romney, earned only 37 percent of the female vote in the CBS poll in February of 2000. But Bush won 43 percent of women on Election Day.
The article also warns that this would be less of a silly conclusion with a candidate like Rick Santorum, who has made social issues the centerpiece of his campaign for President. However, as they suggest, Romney has no obvious baggage that would cause him problems with female voters once the general election begins.
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Comments (53)
Marsh626
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 9:16amThe only reason most female voters vote Left is because most non-Whites do. White women are becoming an increasingly small voting block due to massive non-White immigration. So, this is more about non-Whites voting Left than it is about women voting Left. Most White women still vote Republican.
Report Post »ColoradoMaverick
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 8:04amYes, they (radical progressives) tried this and see that it isn’t working, so now they are trying the race card thing with Trevon Martin. When that falls flat, they will try something else.
Report Post »tnarc2
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 12:52amLatest Gallup poll: Obama has 9 point lead over Romney in swing states http://www.latimes.com/news/po...
Thanks Republican Establishment. As recently as October, Gallup reported that a generic Republican would beat Obama by 6 points. Now, because you insisted on nominating a Massachusetts Democrat who just happens to have an “R” after his name, you are not only going to lose the General Election but you are also going to lose a good percentage of your own base (including myself).
Do the math. Generic Republican beats Obama by 6 points. Obama beats Romney by 9 points. People want to vote for a Conservative, not a guy who governed to the left of Jimmy Carter.
Report Post »tnarc2
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 1:06amI’m still holding out hope for Santorum but if Romney gets the nomination its time to say goodbye to the GOP (at least temporarily)
Report Post »The Tea Party has always maintained an autonomous presence within the Republican Party. Now that the Republican Party is determined to become the Democratic Party v. 2.0, I think its time for the Tea Party to take the Conservative message to a new platform. They could ally themselves with the GOP again in the future but right now, for this election, I think it may be time to find a Third Party/ Tea Party candidate.
BetterNTexas
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 1:13pmTNARC–if we say goodbye to the GOP now, then we say goodbye to it permanently.
You give Obama another 4 years and that’s the end of the GOP. The entitlement programs alone will ensnare enough voters for Democrats indefinitely.
Here’s a sound strategy: If you are someone who is concerned that Romney is too liberal, focus all your energy on your state’s congressional and senate races. Romney may be in the middle, but he‘ll govern from the right if he’s got a conservative Congress.
I for one intend to do all I can to make sure a conservative is sitting in my congressional seat. I will knock doors, make phone calls, everything. And I’m voting for whomever the GOP nominates for President.
Obama MUST go. We need to clean house in DC. I really don‘t care if you don’t like Romney. Allowing Obama another 4 years is disastrous and gets us no closer to draining the cesspool of Washington. Think of how Obama has grown the government the past 4 years. He did that with an election looming over his head. What do you think he would do without an election to answer to?
Report Post »azsmitty
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 12:30amSeems party democrat has one song book, seperate, isolate, intimmidate……….only problem? We are on to party democrat and its enablers.
Report Post »cmccindy
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:09pmI am a woman, who has fought abortion and feminisim in it’s worst form and I will not vote for Romney or Obama in November. Both are cut from the same cloth, maybe some different colors and weaves, but at the end of the day, a vote for one is a vote for another. I will not reward stupidity with my vote and if the parties can juggle it to get Romney the Rep. nominee, I will no longer vote the lesser of two evils and will exercise my responsibility to vote my principles and not reward a broken political two party system that is taking us over the same cliff. If we have any chance of changing course, it will not be done by staying on the same course we have rewarded for the better part of a century, I will write in or vote third party and no, that does not constitute a vote for Ron Paul or Newt Gingrich. MO was a giant cluster *(&) this year and Santorum who took our state is going to lose because of the Republican Party machine that attempted to control the Missouri outcome to reflect the party and is losing to the Machinations of the Caucus. I will not vote the lesser of evils, I will vote principle if I have to write in a candidate that best reflects my principles and values. Romney and Obummer do not!
Report Post »go2gym
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:17pmUnfortunately, a 3rd party vote is a vote Obama doesn’t have to make up over his opponent. Please re-consider your thoughts. If nothing else, think about Supreme Court Justices, which Obama will be appointing maybe 2. And not just them, also huge are other federal court judges. The liberal activism on the Courts has to get weeded out. Obama will assure that it doesn’t happen during his 4 years. Please reconsider your voting strategy for the sake of the nation.
Report Post »suzy000
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:28pmWhen a conservative woman stays home on election day…you are in essence voting for the liberal. Sometimes as American women fighting for liberty, we have to pick the lesser of two evils. We have had to do this through the generations and we did not get this far by staying home. Susan B. Anthony didn‘t stay at home and you shouldn’t either….get out there…. hold your nose if you have to but VOTE REPUBLICAN!
Report Post »jzs
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 11:31pmcmccindy, what is it you don’t like about feminism? Do you not want equal rights for women? Do you not want a daughter – like my daughter – to have an level playing field with males to succeed in the workplace? Seriously, what is it about feminism you don’t like? I want my daughter to have the same chances as anyone to succeed. Do you challenge that, or are you talking about something else?
Report Post »tnarc2
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 1:09amI will also be voting 3rd Party if Romney is the nominee. Mitt RomneyCare is the MOST LIBERAL POLITICIAN IN THE ENTIRE REPUBLICAN PARTY. His nomination is an intentional slap in the face of the Tea Parties.
Report Post »BetterNTexas
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 1:24pmYou do that. Kiss the Supreme Court goodbye in the process. Prepare to welcome whatever insane policies and foreign agreements President Flexible has in mind for you and your children.
I would crawl over hot coals combined with razor-sharp shards of glass on my bare hands and knees to vote for whomever the GOP nominates.
I will never, EVER do anything that makes it easier for our current President to obtain another term in office. I will never, EVER do anything that gives liberals more control over my children.
Report Post »BetterNTexas
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 1:39pmTNARC–
Have you gone to Santorum and Romney’s websites and read what their plans are on healthcare?
The descriptive language differs slightly but the goals are the same. Both label their plans “Repeal and REPLACE Obamacare.” The main difference is that Santorum‘s website says that he will work with Congress to achieve his goals while Romney’s website says he’ll turn the power over to the states by removing roadblocks to commerce such as allowing insurance portability and the ability for insurance companies to cross state lines, etc.
So Santorum is out there saying that he‘s going to use the Federal government to give us a new healthcare solution and Romney is saying it’s up to the states. This tells me that Santorum is still looking at a big government solution, which is the very reason I’m so opposed to Obamacare in the first place.
To sum up: Both candidates have a plan to replace Obamacare. The goals of the plans are the same. Santorum wants to implement his goals through Congress. Romney wants states to enact their own plans. Of the two, it turns out that I prefer Romney‘s giving the power to the states over Santorum’s big government, Congressional solution.
Report Post »Carol1955
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:05pmAs a conservative woman, I will vote for the Republican candidate. Do people believe that conservative women hold their values so loosely that they would be swayed so easily away from defeating Obama? Please give us more credit than that. It’s the other side that is apt to sell themselves for freebies and shiney things.
Report Post »survivorseed
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:42pmGood conservative women vote for whoever their husband tells them too. Now get back in the kitchen
Report Post »EndTheGOPTEA
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:01pmObama Is going to win.. Deal with it.
Report Post »Ann
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:28pmYou are dreaming. People see him for what he is, not the fake he presented himself as.
Report Post »But keep dreaming!
amuzed_right_guy
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:38pmMale or female, it doesn’t matter. Anyone who votes in November for the current occupier of the white house will be checking their brains at the door. Not only is Barry O a creepy sociapathic liar and committed socilalist, his policies have failed miserably and he will double down on stupid if given a chance to continue his transformation of America. His “get whitey” reparations payments to his base and sellout to labor unions, environmentalists, the gay lobby, muslim extremists, and communist-wannabes will absolutely destroy America unless voters wake up to the clear and present danger and run this radical extremist out of town. (He should really be deported to his country of origin, whereever that may be.)
Report Post »Baikonur
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:46pmThe President has devoted his term in office to bringing us closer to Universal health care and withdrawal from Iraq and Afghansistan.
He did good.
Will be voting for him.
Report Post »Baikonur
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:18pmI think the GOP is certainly losing the women’s vote.
It lost mine, after a lifetime of voting Republican. I also cancelled my National Review subscription, which I have had since age 19. When I heard Sarah Palin speak, it made it very clear tomethat the GOP was no longer a party of ideas.
Report Post »Johnny Cocheroo
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:49pmSarah Palin just “threw” you into the arms of Obama.
*cough*bs*cough*
Report Post »Simonne
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 8:54pmI read in politico that the dems fear Ann Romney as she is very personable & she will help Mitt to reach the women voters. They are such a great couple.
Report Post »Baikonur
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:26pmI agree. I hope that if elected, they can bring Universal healthcare to the nation the way Mitt was able to bring it to Massachusetts.
She seems like an upstanding human being that would want all people to be able to go to a doctor if they get sick.
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 8:46pmbecause women like me who are disgusted with the loose women of this nation and think child murder is evil would not in a million years want to pay for it or pay for the skanks birth control with money that could be in my childs college fund, you know the money I work hard for 9-5 instead of sleeping around and collecting welfare like the women the dems like to embrace
Report Post »Baikonur
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:29pmLose a hundred pounds and then talk, sanctimonius sour apple.
Report Post »Collbuzz
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 8:44pmNon-progressive/commie women have brains therefore, know a scam when they see. one. They (msm) only WISH women were bolting from the GOP.
Report Post »Polls can be very mosleading, depending on how one is asked the question.
Leatherstocking
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 8:37pmThis next election will eclipse all former re-runs of “The Biggest Loser”. Women will vote for Romney if he can make the case that the soccer mom’s kids will be better off with him as president.
Report Post »Women generally want to vote “FOR” someone and not “AGAINST” Obama. Right now, there is no compelling case for Romney.
doomytram
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 8:16pmI’ve been saying this for months, but stay off of the commie networks. The commie network’s polls are lies, and the false results are what they want you (the Idiot Box believer) to think.
Here are what the real internals are telling Axelrod and Oblamer… We aren’t doing to well among White or Hispanic Women. We have given up on White Males. We aren’t doing very well with Jews or Catholics. We are losing steam among Black Men and Women that aren‘t Obamabotic’s.
Report Post »ChevalierdeJohnstone
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 8:07pmWould a man sit in front of a sham congressional panel and demand increased public funding to pay for his beer and porn magazines? Or heck, condoms?
With flakes like Sandra Fluke presuming to speak for the female gender, women need to justify why exactly they should be trusted with the responsibility of voting. Since female suffrage began in America we have seen the decline of the family and the rise of progressivism. Correlation or causation?
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 8:37pmOh c’mon, CHEV…….most of the Occupiers I’ve seen are of the male gender. Most of the prog professors who advance their lefty views are men. Obama, Carter, Clinton, Reid, Frank, Specter, Grayson, Schumer, etc….um, men. Alinsky, Van Jones, Bill Ayers, Holdren, Holder…..men. And ALL of the Marxist, Communist, et al, dictators were men. You can’t blame this mess solely on women.
I get your point and am by no means a feminist. But, really???
Report Post »Locked
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 8:48pm“Since female suffrage began in America we have seen the decline of the family and the rise of progressivism. Correlation or causation?”
Wow. That’s… a pretty terrible claim to make. I’m a man, and I still think that’s insulting. Sorry… women being able to VOTE is what caused the decline of the US? Good Lord. Go back to Saudi Arabia.
Report Post »Baikonur
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:38pmThe causation will be your wife or girlfriend replying to this question by you. I would love to see the consequence.
Don’t worry, though, your little opinions do not have actual consequences here.
For many decades now, the likes of you are kept as pets by their female caretakers. It is cute, more than anything.
I myself am considering a French Bulldog puppy. it will fart and chew things, but it will be adorable.
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 7:58pmI don’t trust these polls. The women I know can’t stand Obama. Not all that happy with Romney, but they will vote for him.
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 8:19pmKeep ur daughters off the poll.
Report Post »TelepromoterNChief
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 7:35pmI’m all for free contraception if it leads to the Democrats to stop breeding.
Report Post »FloridaFarmGirl
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 7:25pmThis whole contraception issue was created by the Democrats to divert attention from higher gas prices and their terrible record for the last 3 plus years. Everyone knew this was coming when that idiot asked about contraception in one of the Republican debates when no one at the time had been talking about it. Stick to the subject: jobs, national debt, gas prices, etc..
Report Post »Shasta
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 7:55pmAnd the media responded responded and no one remembers the original issue. Democrats are great at this deception. Republicans have shown themselves unable to fight this in any reasonable fashion.
Report Post »concealled9mms
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 7:22pmif the country required that a person must pass a I.Q. test before voting there would be a really small democrap party
Report Post »Locked
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 7:19pm“Republicans should be concerned. The GOP nominee cannot win with only 37 percent of the female vote.”
Not sure if saying “We’re not losing women over contraception; we’re losing women in general” is much of a silver lining?
Report Post »Baikonur
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:44pmPeggy Noonan, David Frum, Kathleen Parker, William Buckley Jr–they already left the National Review and the mainstream GOP after Sarah opened her mouth.
Report Post »TRONRADIO
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 7:14pmAll the poser has is the ignorant, the lazy, the wicked, and the whiners. Oh, and he can have ‘em. I really think Obama is in big trouble no matter the GOP candidate.
Report Post »moussiagilda
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 7:13pmHere’s my very female opinion. The GOP is losing female voters right now because women can not endure pathological liars, and Republican politicians are trying right now to appear to be the biggest pathological liars in the universe. Especially the broken-down shell from Janesville. Why act like liars? Why be totally impossible to believe?
We aren’t going to elect Romney with his Pelosi eyes and his nonexistent mind. We’re intending to be philosophers, and instead we’re being liars?
Report Post »imsteph
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 7:57pmYES!
We are called to be so much more!
Why believe and support the lies-whether to the world, each other, or ourselves….
For The TRUTH shall set you FREE :D
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 8:00pmWhile I respect your integrity, I can assure you from my very female perspective……every conservative woman I know will vote for Anyone But Obama. While we are not thrilled, by any means, with Romney, we surely are intelligent enough to know what four more years of Obama will do to our country, our families and our future.
Who is more of a pathological liar than Obama?
Is it the lesser of two evils or the devil we know? If Romney gets the nod, conservative women will indeed vote for him.
Report Post »Simonne
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 8:55pmYou really don’t make any sense.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 7:12pmthe only voters obama will be winning this time around are the complete moron voting base
sadly there are A LOT of COMPLETE MORONS in our great country
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 7:11pm‘On the Right, Santorum Has Women’s Vote’
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/24/us/politics/rick-santorum-attracts-votes-of-conservative-women.html?pagewanted=all
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‘Santorum wins conservative women’
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=74B7ADBD-61EC-4D1A-8646-31E396E66AF0
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 7:09pmOf course Republicans aren’t loosing women….Women like men who bathe, groom themselves, have a job, and don’t live in Mommies basement.
This coincides with a report that most Democrat men have until April 15th to either take a bath and take out the garbage, or get the heck out of our house and go back to OWS.
Report Post »Baikonur
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 9:23pm@Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 7:09pm
‘Of course Republicans aren’t loosing women….Women like men who bathe, groom themselves, have a job’
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To marry. So we can be sure you were raised properly enough to help care of the children. Who we vote for is a completely different matter that you have no reason to concern yourself with.
Actually, I see dishes in the sink, so maybe you better get along and do your duty to the family, star trek wannabe.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:52pmI didn’t know you could get Wifi in your tent. How’s the weather at OWS, did they remove the dead bodies from the tent next to you yet, or do you all still think of the rotting corpse as incense.
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