Why the GOP doesn’t need to shift on abortion
4. The GOP doesn’t have a woman problem; it has a single woman problem.
Romney won married women by 7%. In 2008, Obama won them by 4%. In 2004, Bush won them by 11%. And, in 2000, Gore and Bush tied among married women.
In all of those cases except for 2000, married women voted more Republican than the electorate at-large.
So clearly, the GOP’s problem is a single voter problem; not a married voter or female voter problem.
Obama won single women by a massive 67%-31% margin, but single women are simply much more liberal, and why would they suddenly jump to the Republican party just because of a shift on abortion when single women have greater sympathy for most other Democratic causes?
Thus, shifting on abortion doesn’t seem likely to help the GOP with single women (who are a core Democratic constituency for many reasons and on many issues).
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Conservative principles.
sauldalinsky on November 28, 2012 at 7:22 PM
Really good short piece. Worth reading the whole thing.
Robert_Paulson on November 28, 2012 at 7:25 PM
We should change our stance on divorce. It should require irreconcilable differences.
astonerii on November 28, 2012 at 7:35 PM
Didn’t know single women are not actually “women”.
Pablo Honey on November 28, 2012 at 7:36 PM
Well they certainly aren’t independent “feminist” women if they are relying on daddy government to pay for their bedroom activities. All they are is overgrown children who can have sex.
melle1228 on November 28, 2012 at 7:40 PM
I agree. Also, the GOP doesn’t need to shift on immigration reform, gay rights, energy policy, foreign policy, education policy, or any other policy. It doesn’t need to shift its focus from protecting the wealthiest among us to preserving the social safety net for our poor and sick. It doesn’t need to shift to from its decision to select all white men for committee chairs of the house of Congress it temporarily controls. Let it continue to be the party of angry white men and fear-driven Tea Partiers. Fox News will laugh all the way to the bank, and the Democrats can take over leadership from here.
Alpha_Male on November 28, 2012 at 7:44 PM
How does one “shift” on abortion???
You either find it reprehensible or you don’t.
Mimzey on November 28, 2012 at 7:48 PM
Bingo.. How does one shift on the murdering of innocent life..
And we need to stop listening to pundits. We don’t need to change our stance; we need to change how that message is given.
And stop letting pundits, media and the dems control the narrative.
melle1228 on November 28, 2012 at 7:52 PM
What a silly claim..tho I suspect the dimwitted will buy into some conspiracy theory.
What is it you are actually claiming this is evidence of?
Let me guess…hmmm…what could it be?….lets see. Is it RACISM?? You people..(stereotyping?)..need to bump over a bit..you’re going to wear a groove. Try a new schtick for a while.
Mimzey on November 28, 2012 at 7:55 PM
Thats accurate imo. As hard is it is to understand, I would not be surprised if when conservatives stuck to their guns..they will turn on us to protect their power. Even the ones who you might expect would never do that.
Mimzey on November 28, 2012 at 7:58 PM
You forgot the sarc tag.
“our poor and sick”? Give us all a break. I take care of the poor and sick in my family and some others as well. Do you? Instead of sloughing off YOUR responsibility to the government why don’t you pitch in and lay off the rest of us that are PAYING TAXES AND doing what is right by”‘our poor and sick.”
2L8 on November 28, 2012 at 8:01 PM
Alpha Male careful now with all that straw make sure you don’t cause a spark or light a match.
CW on November 28, 2012 at 8:13 PM
You’re not real bright. What a puke. What is it with so many of you gays and your love of death? Sorry honey but the left will exterminate gays in utero once a test is found. You’re making your bed…have fun.
CW on November 28, 2012 at 8:15 PM
Pop the higher education bubble and those singles are not sitting in some tenured radical’s classroom being told why they have to vote Democrat. Without the loan debt, they can even afford to get married, and stop being single. Some may find a way to go to college–a college much more focused on academics than indoctrination and fluff. Others become the HVAC technicians, airframe mechanics, and plumbers who will probably end up richer than if they had continued their underwater basketweaving degrees.
Hem 0bama in politically and make sure when Castro dies, his government is replaced with a friendlier one (with 0bama unable to stop it). The illegals in Section 8 housing with food stamps for dinner will move to the shiny new factories that will be built across Latin America. I work around these people every day. Maria takes food stamps because Juan doesn’t bring enough money home to keep her as a homemaker otherwise. Don’t legalize them and make them want to stay when the unskilled jobs they want will be in countries with a better cost of living than ours.
Drop an ethics wall between the House and the media, and you will reduce by about 60-75 percent the number of jobs Democrats can dandle in front of burned-out journos. Take the Senate and we can reduce that by more. Let’s see how biased the media are when they can’t look on a given Democrat as a potential future employer.
Sekhmet on November 28, 2012 at 8:16 PM
A solid and sensible article on social issues on Hotair? An article that doesn’t demand immediate and unconditional surrender? Do my eyes deceive me?
Don’t let the Mittwits know!
Stoic Patriot on November 28, 2012 at 8:17 PM
I’m glad your family has you and that you have the wealth to be able to take care of yourself and help them. Many, many, many are not so fortunate. They live in a vicious circle where poverty feeds on itself, making it impossible to escape the misery in which they were born, through no fault of their own. Sure, there are people who abuse the system, and it’s a problem that should not be ignored. But there are so many people who have no way of escaping poverty and pass it on from generation to generation. They need a hand up.
Alpha_Male on November 28, 2012 at 8:18 PM
You cannot fathom a world without abortion, can you?
hawkdriver on November 28, 2012 at 8:27 PM
Wow, you actually believe this? I bet you believe that children who are not the kids of drug addicts routinely go to bed hungry in poor neighborhoods too. And I bet you even think that the current African-American female-dominated single-mother family is some import from Africa that has carried over after 400 years of living in a foreign land, speaking English, and being forcibly converted to Protestant Christianity. And the homelessness epidemic was more the fault of Ronald Reagan than Thomas Szaz.
No wonder you believe in Santa.
Sekhmet on November 28, 2012 at 8:28 PM
FTFY. You know, that whole pesky vow you make before God and man? Til death and all that? Some people take that seriously.
Living4Him5534 on November 28, 2012 at 8:34 PM
But even God allowed his faithful to divorce when there was cheating going on.
astonerii on November 28, 2012 at 8:38 PM
By getting it through your head that it’s a SCOTUS challenge or nothing.
MelonCollie on November 28, 2012 at 8:44 PM
What is? I was referring to a individuals position.
SCOTUS is not going to overturn it, especially after Maobama appoints 2 or 3 more libtards.
Thanks all the Mitt bashers and 3rd party d-bags and people who sat out the election because of conservative ‘purity’ issues.
Mimzey on November 28, 2012 at 8:54 PM
Funny how liberal “men” are so insecure about their namby-pamby (and near universally true) stereotype that they go out of their way to tell you that they really do have a set of stones. Bet this guy is some vegan that’s never turned a wrench in his life.
The Count on November 28, 2012 at 9:22 PM
Well, if the GOP doesn’t need to shift on abortion then it better start making it’s position on the issue better understood. One out of every four Dem. women think we’re all as loony as Akin.
lynncgb on November 28, 2012 at 9:42 PM
The enemy thinks the worst of us. OMG, quick, get the shocked face emoticon ready!
astonerii on November 28, 2012 at 9:52 PM
“The enemy” is VOTERS, without which we’ll never win elections…
MelonCollie on November 29, 2012 at 8:22 AM