Most Women Say The GOP Doesn't Understand Their Problems, Poll Finds

[Grassy Knoll]

Source: huffingtonpost.com

A majority of Americans -- especially female ones -- think the Republican Party is out of touch with women, according to a poll released Friday by CNN/ORC.

Fifty-five percent of Americans, including 59 percent of women, say the GOP generally does not understand the problems and concerns of women.

While most Republican women gave their party positive marks, most women identifying as independents thought the party was out of touch.

Democrats fared better on the issue, with just a third of Americans, and 35 percent of women, saying the party didn't understand their concerns.


Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/07/women-gop-poll_n_4748200.html

[CurtEastPoint]

1. You can omit 'Their Problems' and 'with women' and be more accurate.

The GOP Doesn't Understand
the Republican Party is out of touch
Bunch of clueless greedy egomaniacs.

[mazzarro]

13. + Infinity -- n/t

[grilled onions]

2. They Are Far Too Busy CREATING Problems For Women To Understand Them

Their barefoot and pregnant mentality,their constant desire to have women in breeding mode as much as possible gives them little incentive to improve the quality of life for women.
They want them frumpy and in the kitchen. Any woman who takes care of herself,looking nice or desiring a career is considered a loose woman worthy of being chased after but little else.
How can they expect women to endorse these clowns when they have no respect for women?

[JoePhilly]

3. Republican women must have asked their husbands how to respond.

[Iliyah]

7. LOL - your mean stepford wives

[otohara]

12. So True

My once liberal BFF married a GOP - it took years, but she's a full on t-party type now. She's even turned into a racist....and we no longer talk.

[JoePhilly]

27. I have an old female friend who

has slowly drifted right, right, right ... Now she now mentions Jesus, and the moochers, without taking a breath between.

Now I just smile and nod at her as if she's a toddler who is overly proud of the poop she just took on the floor.

[otohara]

29. I'm A Moocher

I had Polio as a child - never bothered me until I was 32 and I learned about post-polio-syndrome and the chronic pain it brings. I worked in pain until I was 45.

Now with all this talk of moochers/takers, it has prompted perfect strangers to lash out at moochers like me.

When my son's band was playing at a music festival at Red Rocks, they played up top where there is no seating. My friend found a security guard standing next to a stack of chairs and he told her flat out - no he would not give her a chair for her disabled companion.

So I go over there - show the man my brace and he yells at me "I'm so sick of you people and your problems, I told your friend no and I'm not changing my mind."

My mom always told me kids could be mean, but the GOP has proven they are by far the biggest asshole meanies and the disabled is now their new target of hate and intolerance.

[JusticeForAll]

31. Your post saddens me

It's odd that we use the word "humanity" to describe caring and benevolence, yet some humans are bereft of those traits.

I hope that others treat you with the kindness and respect we all deserve.

[sorefeet]

4. They understand your problem

they just don't give a shit. Your a woman what the fuck could you know.

[onehandle]

5. DNC? Get the message? 2014 and 2016 should be all about the war on women. nt

[mazzarro]

14. Sometimes I have the feeling that the Dems purposely throw the ReThugs life lines to save them

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It seems like they would rather have the reThugs around rather than deal them a death blow once-and-for-all, fearing what will take the place of the reThuglican party. And my answer is, if the Dems had done it when more cooler heads abound in the reThuglican party way back when, then we would most probably not be dealing with these teahadists and Kochadists and Paulists and Cruzhadists by now!

[quakerboy]

28. Its not a matter of fearing what will take their place

its the knowledge that if they knock the republicans too far out of power, then they wont have a stick to beat voters over the head with when they question why Democrats arent serving our interests any better than the republicans did.

[mazzarro]

32. For sure, I agree with that too.

It plays a very significant part in their lackadaisical attitude about them.

[11 Bravo]

6. In a related story, most chickens say that Col. Sanders is out of touch with their concerns.

[Brigid]

30. Oh, snap!

[bkanderson76]

8. And Then The Minority of Some 45% Evidently Don't Care....What Gives?

[oldandhappy]

9. Understatement!!

Do not know why so many repub women are OK with vaginal ultrasounds and no contraception and anti-health care and all the really unhelpful repub positions. Mystery to me.

[Demeter]

19. Because they think they are immunized from it all

by glomming onto a GOP male, or the GOP party as a substitute father/husband.

The deluded women think it can NEVER happen to them! They are God's Chosen, special, protected, entitled, even.

Yeah, there's a lot of that going around. Not just amongst the GOP women, either.

[Triana]

10. The GOP doesn't even consider women HUMAN, for starters...

...the rest I think mostly stems from that.

And it's pretty damn hypocritical for such knuckle-draggers as the GOP to project their own lack of humanity onto women - then punish women for it - rather than fixing themselves. Worse, GOP evidently thinks it is entitled (speaking of "entitlements&quot to use of women for that purpose.

So yea, it starts there (IMO) .... and from that goes the rest.

[AAO]

11. Cirroc afraid of women. Their world frightens and confuses me. Remember, I'm just a caveman!

[valerief]

15. I hate these questions. Who cares what they understand. The question s/b do you think

the GOP (or whomever) will DO anything about Problem A, Problem B, etc. Because, OF COURSE, they understand, no matter what they say. They just DON'T CARE.

[Sunlei]

16. bet about 30% of R men said they were female just to vote against woman in the poll :)

[abq e streeter]

17. Understand ? Or "give a rat's ass about"

[Dawgs]

18. This why the Democrats/Liberals should be constantly saying "THE WAR ON WOMEN".

It's the same kind of thing Republicans have been doing for years..kind of like 'pro-life'.

[imthevicar]

20. YA THINK!

[elleng]

21. and doesn't give a damn

[jtuck004]

22. Vs the Democrats who understand them, and still take your food stamps away. Because

they are so much smarter...and pragmatic, don't you know.

[cosmicone]

23. Only women?

The list of who GOP doesn't care about is very very long. Blacks, Hispanics, Educators, Scholars, Scientists, Poor, Homeless, Workers, Middle Class, Religious Minorities, Sovereignty of other countries, Urban dwellers -- and so on.

If one doesn't have a few of the attributes from the list of ignorant, racist, xenophobic, bible-thumper, white, rich, war mongerer, rural, and American exceptionalist, GOP flips you the bird.

[pangaia]

24. Republican women don't even understand Republican women.

What's a man to do?

[mountain grammy]

25. ONLY 59%? Should be in the 80% range. WTF ladies?

[TheKentuckian]

26. Hence the big elephant in the middle of the room is women.

Folks can rage about men all they want but a rational level of solidarity among women would see the will of regressives men washed away in the flood.

Women's issues should draw more than a basic majority among women.