Revenge: It’s What Female Voters Have in Store for the GOP

[Tx4obama]

Data published late last year by the Pew Research Center indicated that the marriage rate amongst U.S. adults stands at an all-time low. “In 1960, 72% of all adults ages 18 and older were married; today just 51% are.” And within the 49% that remain unattached, more than half of the unmarried Americans are women. For every 100 single women, there are 88 bachelors available.

What does this mean beyond a favorable dating pool imbalance for the nation’s single men? Well for the tone tone-deaf Republican party one implication is that when the polls open this November to elect the next President of the United States, there will be an awful lot of single women casting votes. The party continues to cater to its target base of wealthy, older white men at its own peril.

The New York Times highlighted the predicament facing Republican candidates this morning in an article published as part of the paper’s “Campaign 2012″ series. Viewing the female vote through the prism of the country’s weak fiscal performance, the piece by writer Shaila Dewan entitled, “Weak Economy Puts Spotlight on Votes of Single Women,” argues “Single women are one of the country’s fastest-growing demographic groups — there are 1.8 million more now than just two years ago. They make up a quarter of the voting-age population nationally, and even more in several swing states, including Nevada.”

The article presents examples of women, small-business owners and urban singles among others, who feel a conflict between government regulation and intrusion but have suffered personally in an anemic job market with soaring health care costs. This brand of savvy singleton is not so quick to swallow the GOP party directive of laying blame for the nation’s troubles at the feet of Obama. Remembering the unpaid for Bush tax cuts, the deregulation of Wall Street and bristling at the very recent assault on women’s reproductive health does not require the lengthy-tenured cognizance of an elephant. As one woman quoted in Dewan’s piece claims, “I am definitely a swing vote…I have no idea.”

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Full article here: http://www.politicususa.com/revenge-female-voters-store-gop.html

A Good Read

[Kennah]

1. The biology completely freaks me out

In November, vagina is going to put a foot up the ass of a prick.

I know it's going to happen, I'm happy for it, but it still freaks me out.

[freshwest]

2. I hope we are right.

[Scuba]

3. Save us ladies, please save us.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

4. “I am definitely a swing vote…I have no idea.” <---WTF?

How can that quoted woman say she has NO IDEA?

Is she saying she has no idea how she'll vote?

Jeez, I hope not---I hope the rest of that thought was, I have no idea how repukes can be such dick-weed, jock-itching, dollar-licking scum-buckets.

[bemildred]

5. Long overdue. nt

[meow2u3]

6. Am I the only one who sees a pattern here?

I'm talking about the link between alienating, or outright pissing off, voting blocs and the passing of voter suppression laws such as the ridiculous voter ID laws. The voting blocs the rethugs are alienating are the very ones targeted for unconstitutional disenfranchisement, a.k.a., Jim Crow 2.0, his Latino cousin Juan Crow, and the sister Jane Crow laws.

It is more than proper, it is fact common sense, to wonder how Republicans view a path to victory that excludes single women, not to mention the Hispanic vote they have also devoted ample time to alienating. For every crazy like Palin or Bachmann who puts a pretty face on outdated feminist doubletalk, there are literally millions of women struggling to keep a roof over their head and food on the table while GOP standard bearers presume to tell them what they might be able to do with their bodies. Meanwhile, as the title of the Times article suggests, they have bigger fish to fry. As one of those single female voters in abundance, I can tell you we are tired of not being taken seriously.