Neither Newt nor Santorum would carry the ‘women’ vote, barring some unforeseen event. Neither the women on this board nor your wife and her friends represent the majority of women in America. Those are both no more than anecdotal evidence of a point of view. Your saying that ‘many’ of your wife’s friends are Republican and didn’t vote for Wilder proves the point, does it not? Wilder won! The women I know who are R didn’t vote for Wilder, either. So what?
In the larger context, how ‘women’ vote or are polled nationally doesn’t mean a thing. All the Dems have to do to win is focus on suburban women in a few swing states.
That’s true. Republican’s NEVER carry the women’s vote but in Newt’s instance the gender gap will be an absolute chasm.