Number of women in the GOP has reached a "crisis level."

[Quixote1818]

Republican women are worried and sounding the alarm to their party as voters and donors flee — but it’s ‘unclear’ if GOP men care

SARAH K. BURRIS
16 DEC 2018 AT 19:21 ET

Republican women are trying to get their party to care about the growing gender divide in their party, but their efforts aren’t looking great.

According to a Washington Post report, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) warned the number of women in the GOP has reached a “crisis level.”

“Women are a majority of voters in our country, and the GOP must do more to ensure our conference represents their views,” she said noting she intends to help GOP women win primaries for 2020.

An astounding 40 Republicans lost their seats in 2018 leaving the GOP older, whiter and more male. It’s a representation that now matches the Republican voters for 2018. A staggering 63 percent of white women voted for President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, but that number has slowly declined. White women narrowly voted for President Donald Trump in 2016 (53 percent), but that number dropped again to 50 percent, according to preliminary numbers.

More: https://www.rawstory.com/2018/12/republican-women-worried-sounding-alarm-party-voters-donors-flee-unclear-gop-men-care/?utm_source=push_notifications

[Gothmog]

1. This will be fun to watch

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[Quixote1818]

3. Maybe someone needs to mansplain it to the GOP men?

[irisblue]

2. From the WaPo article

Source>>https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/crisis-level-republican-women-sound-warning-after-election-losses/2018/12/16/e8c99eba-ffb4-11e8-83c0-b06139e540e5_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d6f165ae1116

snip..."It’s very painful,” said Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (Wash.), who championed female candidates for a decade as the only woman in Republican leadership. “We need to make sure that we are growing our ranks.”


snip...."Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) said the number of Republican women in the House has fallen to “crisis level.”

“Women are a majority of voters in our country, and the GOP must do more to ensure our conference represents their views,” said Stefanik, who announced plans this month to help Republican women in their primaries in 2020."

snip..."This is something we’ve got to come to grips with,” former National Republican Congressional Committee chairman Tom Cole (R-Okla.) said of the 2018 gender gap.
“If you look at the post-election analysis and polling, you’d have to be pretty blind not to see the problem,” Cole said. “We’re maximizing rural voters, we’re maximizing white male voters, particularly white males without a college education. Those are all great to have, but they’re not enough to be a majority in the House.”

More at article

Suffer long. Suffer hard.

[msongs]

4. how will repubs find enough compliant women willing to be second class citizens?

[pecosbob]

5. From a comparison of 2006 and 2016 exit polls...a twenty-three percent gender gap

The gender gap was bigger

This year’s election was talked about as being the “year of the woman part II” in American politics, following the first “year of the woman”, which was 1992. After all, Democrats nominated women for US House races at a jaw-dropping rate and female candidates accounted for 24 of the 43 seats Democrats flipped from Republicans in the House. Both seats the Dems flipped in the Senate were also female candidates (Jacky Rosen (NV) and Kyrsten Sinema (AZ)), and there will be 5 new female Governors (KS, ME, MI, NM, SD). How did this happen? Mostly because women are increasingly favoring Democrats at the federal level, with women going 59-40 in favor of Team Blue overall, and women made up 52% of the electorate in 2018. Compare that 19 point romp to the 12 point victory (55-43) Democrats had in 2006. Additionally, men went the opposite direction, going from 50-47 D in 2006 to 51-47 R in 2018. Add it up and 2018 had a 23 point gender gap in these exit polls, which was not as much as pre-election polls indicated it could be, though there will be more research done in subsequent weeks to nail down the exact number. That said, it was still the largest gender gap in recorded history, which places gender right next to education as one of America’s new political divides.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/12/13/1817789/-Examining-Exit-Polls-How-2006-compared-to-2018?utm_campaign=spotlight

[Liberty Belle]

6. Trouble is women in the GOP don't support women's issues either.

Most are anti-abortion, anti-birth control etc. and have zero empathy for women in desperate situations.

They are also not standing up for immigrant mothers whose children are being ripped from their arms after they've fled violence.

They have been enablers of a party that can't even bring itself to support equal pay for women, or decent medical care for families.

In a way I hate these hypocrite women in the GOP even more than the men. They are traitors to all women, in my view.