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[EarlG]

Conservative Poll: Women Think The GOP Is 'Intolerant'

RNC Completes 'Autopsy' on 2012 Loss

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[TlalocW]

1. I forget exactly what the phrase was

But there was an article on quotes from republicans (after a loss in an election - state or federal) dating back to the 90s, and same phrase was always used when it came to minorities and women... something like needing to create a bigger tent... They always said the same thing over and over about the need to attract these voters, but they never did.

TlalocW

[libodem]

2. I heart EarlG

Love this message!!!

[MADem]

3. Now, we need to do some serious outreach to those disaffected GOP women. nt

[samsingh]

4. women on average are smarter than men

[Jim Lane]

10. Men are smarter but also stupider.

I know you were basically making a casual comment rather than an analysis of hard data, but it reminded me of something I read a while back about IQ test results (not perfectly equating with actual intelligence but at least worth something). IIRC, both men and women show mean and median IQ scores of 100, distributed in a bell curve. The difference is that men have a higher standard deviation. As a result, men are overrepresented in both the high-IQ (140 or above) and low-IQ (60 or below) groups.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

5. In the late 20th century Republicans declared racism didn't exist anymore....

Therefore it was okay to get rid of affirmative action.

[Laf.La.Dem.]

6. All true - yet the GOP will pick up seats - WHY!!!!

[citizen24]

13. Why?

Republican voting is not limited by rationality. See Palin, etc.

[Laf.La.Dem.]

17. Welcome to DU

[BrotherIvan]

20. Gerrymandering

and the fact that the Senate is wonky in its representation.

[Plucketeer]

22. Yup - gerrymandering

Hard to play a fair game when the board is grossly tilted.

[BrotherIvan]

25. Those guys are dumb they aint stupid

I just don't understand why Democrats always have this aversion to hitting back.

[Plucketeer]

28. Tis an important question indeed!

Peace and Love gets one walked on by Rethugs. We've suffered thru that phenomenon for years!

[BrotherIvan]

29. That's why I think the turtle is dumbfounded by Grimes

She hits back, HARD, and he just looks helpless. I imagine he's working hard behind the scenes to do quite a lot of vote rigging. Her campaign should be working with someone to monitor by county.

[Plucketeer]

30. Let's face it

The turtle is wedged between Ms. Grimes and a hard place - the hard place being the millionaires he's underwritten by. How long before he tries to find some "dirt" on Alison? The Dems should monitor what's going on at the lower levels cause you can BET there's gonna be some under-handedness in play before one of these two admits defeat!

[SoapBox]

7. Just keep on doing what you do best PukeBaggers...

Spread the hate and show all of America what shitheads you are!

This needs to go out on Twitter and up on Facebook.

[Jack Rabbit]

8. Of course, it failed

Did anyone see a real outreach effort to women? Or latinos? Or blacks?

Anything Republican pitchmen had to say to these groups was drowned out by the actions of Republican politicians.

Any outreach to Republicans attempted was drowned out by misogynist legislation aimed at limiting a woman's right to make her own medical decisions. Any outreach aimed at the racial minorities was drowned out by racist voter ID legislation.

On top that. any outreach to women and racial minorities by Republican pitchmen from the RNC was drowned out by the most visible and loudest Republican pitchmen of all, the racists and misogynists on FoxNews.

[Quasimodem]

15. The GOP Outreach appears to consists of ...

...having a woman, a Latino, or a black SAYING their hateful, racist, misogynistic horse puckey, or having one stand BESIDE them as they say their hateful, racist, misogynistic horse puckey. That's about as inclusive as most of the GOP's progressive types can get, while their old guard ... oh, wait! ... that is their old guard. Their newer recruits are feral wolverines, jackals and rabid skunks.

[love_katz]

18. Excellent post.

This is why I have NEVER voted Repuke, and unless they have some kind of gargantuan change, I never will!

Love your posts, Jack Rabbit...and Jackpine Radical, and Babylon Sister, and K Pete, and WillPitt, and Madame Silver Spurs, and The Magistrate, and Willy T, and Aristus...and, well, most of DU.

A huge shout out to Earl G!

to all. <3

[Dont call me Shirley]

9. Republicans, including republican women: Mysogenists

[EarlG]

11. And I have to add this from TODAY

When asked why the party is doing worse with female voters than in 2010, Priebus argued that the GOP can close this 10-point gap by ramping up outreach and focusing on the economy.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025455848

[Enthusiast]

12. I like the way Republicans treat women.

Women just need to toughen up.

[geretogo]

14. If the Rethuglicons want to steal the elections in 2014 they are going to work a lot harder

to keep the women away from the polls . They can never win any election legitimately .

[Cartoonist]

16. It shouldn't be that hard

1. Call Rape a horrendous crime
2. Give women control of their bodies
3. Treat them as equals
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None of these things cost a dime, yet the republican party is bankrupt.

[BrotherIvan]

21. They're between a rock and a hard place

Once they courted the fundie vote, all of your points became impossible. When they put together this strategy (under Reagan) it was to secure the entire south. It worked and some have never come back.

Carter


Reagan


Clinton


Obama

[lame54]

19. Yet their expected to win the mid-terms...

[mdbl]

23. Yeah, just like Romney was expected to beat Obama

[lame54]

24. He was never expected to beat Obama...

that was a fox lie that romney believed

Im talking about Nate Silver

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/republican-gop-senate-forecast/

[BlueCaliDem]

26. Ten days out, most opinion polls gave the edge to Romney.

Who Will Win the U.S. Presidential Election, Forecast 2012
ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2012 Oct 27, 2012 - 06:15 AM GMT

By: Nadeem_Walayat

The final countdown to the U.S. presidential election has now begun with expectations that there is little that each candidate can now effect on the electorate during the remaining 10 days. Most opinion polls currently put Romney slightly ahead of Obama i.e. ABC 50/47, BBC Poll of Polls 49/47, Gallop 48/48. However the high margin of error of as much as +/ -5%, and typically +/ -3% compounded by the electoral college system makes all of these opinion polls unreliable in trying to determine the US election outcome, therefore this analysis is focused on key events that impact on determining a probable forecast for the US presidential election 2012.
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article37226.html

It wasn't just a Fox lie. It was an American media lie, widely propagated, imo, to influence the voters in favor of Romney.

[lame54]

32. either way it wasn't believable...

Nate Silver's predictions have been very accurate

this is a post from today
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251375529

[BlueCaliDem]

27. You're right. Ten days out, most opinion polls had Romney beating Obama.

And these were the polls widely propagated by all media.

Here's my post that contains an excerpt of the analysis at MarketOracle that proves you are correct: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1017&pid=212083