You’re vastly overestimating the intellectual horsepower of the majority of today’s young women.
I’ve met many of them in my travels. Most have no higher thoughts about “big subjects” at all. Everything is driven by emotion and “feelings,” and their ability to do any sort of mathematics is nearly nil. Those stupid magazines you see in the checkout line at Wally World aren’t exercises in disposing of glossy paper. They publish that pablum because it *sells*. And it doesn’t sell to middle aged white males. Or middle aged females. Or elderly folks. Those magazines are going after the 17 to 35 age bracket of single women.
Republicans (and conservatives) continue to make this mistake around female voters: The campaign strategists keep believing that women “think about the issues.”
Wrong. The vast majority of women “feel,” they don’t “think.” Some married female voters might start thinking, if only because they’ve been around one man long enough to know that not everything every damn day is about their feelings, and they’ve had their husband explain this to them - more than once.
Great post Dave! You are absolutely right, I lost my first wife to cancer 21 years ago and I loved her very much but I once tried to explain to her that thoughts and emotions are two different things, how you think about something should determine how you feel about that subject and not the other way around. She couldn’t grasp it, she was very intelligent in other ways but the day she died she was still convinced that emotions are thoughts.
I do know one thing for certain though, she would NEVER have been taken in by Obama. She could spot a phony a mile off.