Posted on 09/27/2011 2:15:38 PM PDT by ReformationFan
We have all heard about the sex gap in voting patterns. This is the phenomenon whereby, in every election, women are far more likely to support liberal candidates than men are. For instance, in 1996, Bill Clinton captured 54 percent of the women's vote but only 43 percent of the men's. And in subsequent elections, the male-female gap has been as follows: in 2000, Al Gore, 42-54; in 2004, John Kerry, 41-51; and in 2008, Barack Obama, 49-56. In fact, even in the watershed election of 2010, during which we heard about the rise of the conservative woman, the fairer sex favored Democrats by 1 point, 49 to 48. The Republican victories were attributable to a sex gap (I don't use the word "gender") that was as wide as ever, ranging from 4 to 19 points.
So, clearly, women tend to gravitate toward statist candidates. And there are many reasons for this. One is that, being the more emotion-driven sex, women are more susceptible to liberals' emotional appeals. Another is that where men are big-picture-oriented, women are detail-oriented. This feminine quality is wonderful when handling young children, whose lives must be micro-managed; the problem is that it also leads to acceptance of a micro-managing government that, ultimately, will treat us all like children. And then you have not just a nanny state (a feminine descriptive, mind you), but what we are quickly descending into: The Harridan State.
Yet there is an even greater reason why women veer left, and it's the one I'll focus on today.
They are the Security Sex.
(Excerpt) Read more at renewamerica.com ...
Yes. Yes I did. 8-D
Facts are facts. Even in 2010, as the author points out, more women voted for Democrats than Republicans. I wish it were the opposite.
Neal Boortz talked about this one day. Single women, generally, vote for more Govt because they do not have a man to take care of them.
I believe it. Yep, the more I think about it makes sense (unfortunately).
“...living with another adult that doesn’t acquiesce to your every whim is just, well, hard.”
Yes, but like ordering a pizza, one phone call can take care of that “problem”.
It’s all about sex appeal, it has been since Kennedy edged Nixon, and probably before.
“Edwards is hot!” - Stupid rat voting female in Iowa Jan. 2004
Women voted for Nixon in 1960 though. Including “Mad Men”’s Betty Draper cause Kennedy reminded her of her cheating husband IIRC. ;p
“His Rickness” will get a high % of women and gay votes.
that’s why the election was close.
Kennedy beat Nixon
LBJ beat Goldwater
Nixon beat Humphrey
Carter beat Ford
Reagan (former movie idol) beat Carter
Reagan beat Mondale (the latter was a whiny little bitch, no sex appeal at all)
Bush beat Dukakis (the latter was short, and nearly as ugly as John Kerry)
Clinton beat Bush
Clinton beat Dole
Bush beat Gore (another narrow margin)
Bush beat Kerry (Kerry the ugliest candidate for President since LBJ)
Zero beat McCain (the latter a pudgy, prematurely aged, balding divorcee)
LBJ was ugly as sin.
Did women think Carter was better looking than Ford? Carter had the classic dweeb look.
Clinton is pretty ugly AFAIC. But his gaze melted the panties off skanks. Dole and his viagra were no match. ;d
:’)
I’m sooooooooo glad I read your post before I went postal on some of the knuckle-draggers here, LOL!
It went a huge way to calming me down before I added to the stupidity that is this thread...
I really don’t care how ANYONE pegs me when it comes to my voting record. It speaks for itself with ONE misguided vote for Sen. Russ Feingold long ago - but he was the lesser of two evils in my state at the time and I didn’t want to ruin my PERFECT voting attendance record up until that point, LOL!
Well, Rusty’s gone now - thrown out with a flourish, so all is well in My Little World. :)
“Single women, generally, vote for more Govt because they do not have a man to take care of them.”
What about us single, taxpaying females who are sick and tired of supporting lay-about men and their b@stard offspring and abandoned Baby Mamas?
Huh? Huh?
(Just kidding...sort of...)
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