Women are a complicated diverse group. I’m trying to word this correctly, so please bear with me.
What I’m trying to say, is that women have all of the same concerns as all of us do, when seeing the state of the world and evaluating candidates.
It is absurdly condescending and paternalistic, to assume that women vote based on getting free birth control and having unlimited access to abortion services.
It is patently absurd to imply that women voters are only concerned with reproductive concerns.
It is patently absurd to imply that if Republicans are elected to office, that somehow birth control is outlawed, and women will be impaled on coat hangers during illegal abortions.
I think women find the “we want to work together” argument very appealing.
I think the “who’s being unreasonable” needle tipped toward the Democrats for many women this time.
Also, women are very sensitive to what they see as personal, immediate threats to the people they care for. The ObamaCare fiasco already had them on edge; the Ebola invasion and the way the Democrats reacted to it was a flashing red danger signal.