Mind the Gender Gap: Why Democrats are losing women at an alarming rate.

The American Prospect ^ | 06 December 2004 | Anna Greenberg

[Lorianne]

A glimmer of a clue, but still clueless.

[Sam the Sham]

Good article.

1. For those wondering, "Mind the Gap" is what London Underground conductors say when there train stops at stations where you have to step across to the platform like Tottenham Court.

2. It illustrates the failure of the Democrats to come up with an economic message to address the upward mobility concerns of blue collar workers in the age of outsourcing and deindustrialization. Once Kerry decided to mute his criticisms of outsourcing and fall in with the Clintonista free trade types he was left with nothing to say to working class voters that would override their national security/moral values concerns.

[wideawake]

Remember, people who vote Republican are greedy, money-hungry country club types.

Yet, at the same time, people who vote Republican are "voting against their own economic interest."

I guess Democrats are selfless people who just happen to vote in their own economic interest.

[Publius]

John Kerry reminds most women of their first husband.

[Veto!]

Democrats are losing women because they don't bathe, shave their beards, or wear nice suits. And they lie, cheat and steal. Really, you can't take them anywhere.

[Noachian]

Kerry lost white women without a college education this year by 23 points ... Kerry won college-educated women by 9 points ...

Does this mean that college educated women have less "common sense" than non-college educated women?

[hilaryrhymeswithrich]

LOL....

I'll keep that in mind while searching for husband #2!!!

[John O]

Democrats are losing women because they don't bathe, shave their beards, or wear nice suits. And they lie, cheat and steal. Really, you can't take them anywhere

Also most women who would have been raised to vote democrat were aborted instead. Talk about unintended circumstances.

[Paleo Conservative]

Democrats are losing women because they don't bathe, shave their beards, or wear nice suits.

And that's just the feminists.

[Toidylop]

"...moral decline, abortion and reproductive health, challenges to women’s traditional roles in society and family, and gay rights. This is not a recent development; it is the culmination of the increasing polarization around cultural issues that began in the 1970s and intensified in the 1990s...

lemme see... according to UC Berkeley Professor George Lakoff, the DEMs has NOT moved left enough!!! just gonna tell ya there's GOD.

[Veto!]

And that's just the feminists.

And you're right about that. LOL

[BJungNan]

[Sir Gawain]

[neocon1984]

Hillary said the same thing about Bush 41 in the 1992 election. Of course, that was never reported as a mean-spirited, ad hominem attack.

Aside from being an oblivious liberal, the writer is unconvincing because of her liberal use of qualifiers and her reliance on "experts" that share her views. It reminded me of college sophmore papers that I had to grade many years ago. Now that was really torture.

[Cobra64]

John Kerry reminds most women of their first husband.

Try dead husband.

[Still Thinking]

The erosion of support for Democratic candidates among women represents a political transformation from a time when voters, both working class and affluent, voted in ways consistent with their economic interests.

Maybe they were "confused" and thought that being allowed to keep more of the income THEY earned, and having an economy slightly less inundated with regulations, and holding out some hope for tort reform, WOULD be in their economic best interests. These sanctimonious libs raise my blood pressure.

[RobRoy]

I always read the phrase "college educated" as "college indoctrinated." Of course, a side benefit is a little education.

[Jim Noble]

For those wondering, "Mind the Gap" is what London Underground conductors say when there train stops at stations where you have to step across to the platform like Tottenham Court

It also illustrates the easy familiarity Democrat elites have with European customs and even Eurotrivia like tube slogans.

If they knew more about the colloquialisms of the people who vote in this country they'd be better off.

[Rebelbase]

Democrats can't protect women.

[SauronOfMordor]

Does this mean that college educated women have less "common sense" than non-college educated women?

Or does it mean that college educated women disproportionately work in fields that are dependent on government funding, like education and "social services"?