The Failed War On Women

The Democrat “War on Women” rhetoric was entirely calibrated to try to win the votes of white women (Obama already controlled non-white womens’ votes).

But for all the palaver?     It didn’t work.

Michael Medved in the NYTimes last week (with emphasis added):

A closer look at the numbers reveals that Mr. Obama’s success with the ladies actually stemmed from his well-known appeal to minority voters. In 2012, 72% of all women voters identified themselves as “white.” This subset preferred Mitt Romney by a crushing 14-point advantage, 56% to 42%. Though Democrats ratcheted up the women’s rhetoric in the run-up to Election Day, the party did poorly among the white women it sought to influence: The Republican advantage in this crucial segment of the electorate doubled to 14 points in 2012 from seven points in 2008. In the race against Mr. Romney, Obama carried the overall female vote—and with it the election—based solely on his success with the 28% of women voters who identified as nonwhite. He carried 76% of Latina women and a startling 96% of black women.

So for all of the left’s argling about racism being the only reason not to vote for Obama, it would seem that race is the only reason to vote for him, since Black and Latina women have fared among the worst of all during the Obameconomy.

As with every election since 2000, marriage matters:

The same discrepancy exists when considering marital status. In 2012, nearly 60% of female voters were married, and they preferred Mr. Romney by six points, 53% to 46%. Black and Latina women, on the other hand, are disproportionately represented among unmarried female voters, and they favored Mr. Obama by more than 2-to-1, 67% to 31%.

Read the whole thing.

And check a few of your assumptions about Democrat rhetoric.

6 thoughts on “The Failed War On Women

  1. …since Black and Latina women have fared among the worst of all during the Obameconomy.

    Really? Even when you include the massive expansions of Medicaid, the subsidized health insurance payments, the massive and unchecked rise in Food Stamp distributions, huge “Obamaphone” expansions, etc?

    If you argue that the money they get in the private sector using the standard “wealth” measurements I’d agree that they’ve done among the worst, but if you include all his other sweeteners I think you’d find that they’ve done quite well for no additional work.

  2. The “War on Women,” at least the alleged medical/ women’s health aspect, revolved entirely around the issue of women’s recreational/ optional participation in sexual intercourse. And that only involved contraception, either before or after the act.

    I would think that women, as a group, would resent being portrayed as sexual predators who cannot control or safely manage their carnal needs; either by selective abstinence, use of alternative sexual behavior, or the use of alternative contraception methods.

    Any reasonably intelligent young woman should be able to manage the issue on her own without the assistance of the Obama regime and resent the allegations to the contrary.

  3. My question on Comrade Obama’s contraception mandate is this; let’s assume that Sandra Fluke’s lover(s) is (are) either unable or unwilling to pay for contraception.

    OK, so exactly what future does she see in him/them? She’s giving them something guys are willing to go to war over, and they can’t even afford four bucks at Wal-Mart to help her get “the pill”? Seriously?

    And with thinking like this, she’s becoming a lawyer? It doesn’t bode well for the country, to put it mildly.

  4. BB: My alternate take on the “how stupid do you have to be to spend $3k/yr on birth control?” thing is that she was lying her ass off, and she knew it, but didn’t care because she knew she’d get a rise out of the “similarly aggrieved” women, and would bolster the “Republican War On Women” BS.

    She says what she needs to say, regardless of the truth. In other words, she was (and is) a political whore, and as such, is well on her way to a fruitful legal career for a decade or so, which will likely be followed by entering into politics.

  5. Political whore and, apparently, otherwise. But it would be nice if people in the media would start asking the hard questions. “OK, you’re spending a grand a year or so on contraception….on what, exactly? Why isn’t your boyfriend helping you pay for this? What kind of guy is he if he doesn’t? What kind of girl are you if you don’t ask?”

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