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- 1. Women Are Watching & We’re Keeping Score!
- 2. WOMEN VOTERS FOR THE WIN (FTW)
- 3. Women Voters Key To Coalition For Progressive Wins
- 4. Reproductive Health Key To Progressive Vote
- 5. 2012 Vote By Gender USA TOTAL OBAMA ROMNEY Men: (47% of voters) 45% 52% Women: (53% of voters) 55% 44% 18 point gender gap +10 points -8 points NEVADA – Presidential OBAMA ROMNEY Men: (47% of voters) 48% 49% Women: (53% of voters) 57% 41% 17 point gender gap +9 points -8 points NEVADA - Senate BERKLEY HELLER Men: (47% of voters) 41% 51% Women: (53% of voters) 48% 42% 16 point gender gap +7 points -9 points
- 6. Women In The Progressive Coalition 100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% Obama 40% Romney 30% 20% 10% 0% White Women Black Women Hispanic Women
- 7. Marriage Gap In The Coalition 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% Obama 30% Romney 20% 10% 0% Married Men Married Women Unmarried Men Unmarried Women Married Voters (60%): Unmarried Voters (40%): 42% Obama; 56% Romney 62% Obama; 35% Romney
- 8. “We are starting to see women in command as less of a novelty, less of a curious phenomenon to be dissected in all of its fascinating manifestations— Will she cry? Can she wage wars? Can she bake cookies and wage wars at the same time?—and more as a normal part of our political landscape.” (Slate.com)
- 9. “It’s the gender gap, stupid! Nevada women doom Romney” ELKO DAILY FREE PRESS 2 MONTHS AGO RENO (AP) — In his bid to take Nevada, Mitt Romney made inroads among several voting groups that had been solidly behind President Barack Obama. The Republican challenger claimed majority support among independents and even attracted a few black and...
- 10. Nevadans Favor Keeping Abortion Legal by 2:1 Margin Abortion Should Be… TOTAL NEVADA RESPONSES OBAMA ROMNEY Always legal (33%) 73% 26% Mostly legal (30%) 54% 44% Mostly illegal (20%) 34% 65% Always illegal (10%)
- 11. “Birth control is a private matter between a woman and her doctor and state legislatures should not interfere.” 7% Nevada Voters Agree Disagree 93%
- 12. “It’s women’s issues, stupid!”
- 13. Paycheck Fairness Act is? “A distraction… …not a job creator.” Dana Perino, Fox News contributor, photo by Huffington Post
- 14. So Called War On Women? “Purely political … to distract citizens from real issues that matter.” John McCain, Arizona Senator, photo by Huffington Post
- 15. Violence Against Women Act? "I think it's unfortunate that The Democrats have made a political football out of this thing, which I think is what they keep doing to distract from real problems that are facing our nation," Sarah Steelman, Missouri candidate for U.S. Senate, photo by Daily Kos
- 16. Contraception? “Women don't care about contraception. They care about jobs and the economy and raising their families and all those other things.” Nikki Haley, Governor of South Carolina, photo by The Blackberry Alarmclock
- 17. “Women (and women’s issues) were part of Obama’s big happy rainbow party.” (Slate.com)
- 18. “WE BUILT THIS” WOMEN ON BIRTH CONTROL BUILT THIS!
- 19. WOMEN ARE WATCHING AND WE’RE KEEPING SCORE!
- 21. Women’s Accountability Project • Election results • Legislative agenda and action • Scorecard and candidate recruiting • Candidate training • Voter registration and election action
- 22. Women’s Accountability Project • Women’s Health Forum • Grassroots Lobby Days (March 3 & 4) • Women in Government (March 29) • Legislative Scorecard • Recruit candidates, register voters
- 23. Engage Women! • Sign up for action alerts! • Volunteer • Donate
Editor's Notes
- Women – they are half of the population. In the world, and in the workforce. #1 – SlateWomen are key part of the progressive vote, but will vote a split ticket … as we saw in Nevada where Obama and Heller both won.
- Reproductive health made voters more likely to vote for the progressive candidateA third to about half of voters saw or heard something during the campaigns about women’s reproductive health. Women’s reproductive health as a voting issue was most important to Democratic women and pro-choice votersSource: California Planned Parenthood Education Fund Findings from Surveys of 300 2012 Voters in California’s 7th, 10th, 26th, 36th, and 52nd Congressional Districts Celinda Lake, Alysia Snell, CateGormley, and Shaun Stewart Washington, DC | Berkeley, CA | New York, NY LakeResearch.com 202.776.9066
- While this is 5th straight election to feature a double digit gender gap, you can see it’s not the whole story. It’s not ONLY about women voters … you can’t just change the messaging (pink it & shrink it mentality), this is more about the issues!Romney seemed to struggle to connect with women as a result of the GOP's escalating efforts to limit women's reproductive rights and a series of controversial comments from Republicans about rape, birth control and abortion. Romney, in particular, alienated many female voters by dodging questions about equal pay legislation, pledging to defund Planned Parenthood and overturn Roe v. Wade, and backing legislation that would allow employers to deny women birth control coverage.The Hill: President Obama won women by 10% while Romney won men by 8% …. Matching the 1984 election when Ronald Reagan defeated Democrat Walter Mondale in a landslide (18% gender gap). 2012 was the 5th straight election to feature a double digit gender gap.According to CNN's exit polls, 55 percent of women voted for Obama, while only 44 percent voted for Mitt Romney. Men preferred Romney by a margin of 52 to 45 percent, and women made up about 54 percent of the electorate. In total, the gender gap on Tuesday added up to 18 percent -- a significantly wider margin than the 12-point gender gap in the 2008 election. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/07/gender-gap-2012-election-obama_n_2086004.html>>>>According to the exit polls, the margin was actually bigger in 2008—13 percentage points. Obama won women 56 percent to 43 percent in 2008. He won them 55 percent to 44 percent on Tuesday.http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2012/11/women-are-not-a-unified-voting-bloc/265007/Romney seemed to struggle to connect with women as a result of the GOP's escalating efforts to limit women's reproductive rights and a series of controversial comments from Republicans about rape, birth control and abortion. Romney, in particular, alienated many female voters by dodging questions about equal pay legislation, pledging to defund Planned Parenthood and overturn Roe v. Wade, and backing legislation that would allow employers to deny women birth control coverage.Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards said on Tuesday that women's health, more than ever, was a decisive issue in the 2012 election.“This election sends a powerful and unmistakable message to members of Congress and state legislatures all around the country that the American people do not want politicians to meddle in our personal medical decisions," she said in a statement.Romney seemed to struggle to connect with women as a result of the GOP's escalating efforts to limit women's reproductive rights and a series of controversial comments from Republicans about rape, birth control and abortion. Romney, in particular, alienated many female voters by dodging questions about equal pay legislation, pledging to defund Planned Parenthood and overturn Roe v. Wade, and backing legislation that would allow employers to deny women birth control coverage.Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards said on Tuesday that women's health, more than ever, was a decisive issue in the 2012 election.“This election sends a powerful and unmistakable message to members of Congress and state legislatures all around the country that the American people do not want politicians to meddle in our personal medical decisions," she said in a statement.http://www.cnn.com/election/2012/results/state/NV/president
- Romney won white women (56% vs. 42% for Obama)Obama’s edge came from black women (96% for Obama) Hispanic women (76% for Obama)When everything was tallied from 2012 this turned out not to be true. This year's 11-point margin was big, but it wasn't bigger than it was four years ago. According to the exit polls, the margin was actually bigger in 2008—13 percentage points. Obama won women 56 percent to 43 percent in 2008. He won them 55 percent to 44 percent on Tuesday.For instance, in the 2012 exits Obama did better with white women than with white men—seven percentage points better—but that's smaller than the 11-point divide in the electorate as a whole. And overall Obama still lost white women. The president captured only 42 percent of the white women's vote, Romney captured 56 percent of it. So, white women actually were an area of strength for Romney.Obama gets a huge edge when you shift to look at black women or Hispanic women. He won 96 percent and 76 percent of their votes respectively. That's even better than Obama did with black men and Hispanic men.http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2012/11/women-are-not-a-unified-voting-bloc/265007/
- http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2012/11/how_women_voted_in_2012_not_as_a_bloc_and_that_s_a_good_thing.htmlNonmarried women and men are solidly in the Obama camp, while married men and women are both solidly in Romney’s camp. Slate The "marriage gap" was also more important than gender in determining votes in 2012, according to the exit polls. Obama won voters who were not married by 20 percentage points. There was a gender gap here—Obama won 67 percent of unmarried women and 56 percent of unmarried men—but he won single women and men.Romney won married voters of both genders. He won 53 percent of married women.http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2012/11/women-are-not-a-unified-voting-bloc/265007/
- http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2012/11/how_women_voted_in_2012_not_as_a_bloc_and_that_s_a_good_thing.htmlwhat women showed in this election is a coming into their own, a calm and steady accumulation of power that had no whiff of 1984 tokenism about it.
- http://elkodaily.com/news/it-s-the-gender-gap-stupid-nv-women-doom-romney/article_977d8c10-29cd-11e2-97c0-0019bb2963f4.htmlMy favorite headline!RENO (AP) — In his bid to take Nevada, Mitt Romney made inroads among several voting groups that had been solidly behind President BarackObama.The Republican challenger claimed majority support among independents and even attracted a few black and Hispanic voters over to his ticket — but it didn’t matter.Romney lost Nevada in large part because of a double-digit gender gap that saw a majority of women voters break Democratic.Exit poll results show the president took a comfortable lead among women in Nevada, highlighting a problem that some GOP strategists have been urging their party to address.“Democrats were very successful at painting Republicans as anti-women,” said Robin Reedy, chief of staff to former-Gov. Jim Gibbons, on KRNV-TV’s “Nevada Newsmakers.”“We, as a state, and a state party, did not do our job very well,” she said Wednesday.
- Abortion Should Be... OBAMA VOTERS ROMNEY VOTERS OTHERAlways legal: 33% 73% 26% Mostly legal: 30% 54% 44%Mostly illegal: 20% 34% 65%Always illegal: 10%http://www.cnn.com/election/2012/results/state/NV/presidentNevada Voters oppose making abortion illegal by a 2:1 margin.“Nevada women voters doom Romney.” Scott Sonner, Associated Press, 11/7/12Voters’ attitudes about abortion also show the divide. Overall, Nevada voters oppose outlawing abortion by as much as a 2-to-1 margin, according to exit polling conducted for The Associated Press and television networks by Edison Research. Only 1 in 10 said it should be outlawed in all cases. And 2 in 10 said it should be outlawed in most cases.Democrats criticized Romney and his running mate, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, over the issue, saying they supported plans to make abortion illegal. And nationally, Republicans lost traction as high-profile candidates made comments that put them outside of the mainstream, including a Senate candidate in Indiana who said pregnancy as a result of rape was “something God intended to happen.”Only 1 in 10 said it should be outlawed in all cases. And 2 in 10 said it should be outlawed in most cases.Democrats criticized Romney and his running mate, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, over the issue, saying they supported plans to make abortion illegal. And nationally, Republicans lost traction as high-profile candidates made comments that put them outside of the mainstream, including a Senate candidate in Indiana who said pregnancy as a result of rape was “something God intended to happen.”
- PPP/Third Eye Strategies April 26, 2012Poll, margin of error = +/-4.2%We purposely asked the question this way … but here’s the bottom line:Reproductive health made voters more likely to vote for the progressive candidate
- Romney seemed to struggle to connect with women as a result of the GOP's escalating efforts to limit women's reproductive rights and a series of controversial comments from Republicans about rape, birth control and abortion. Romney, in particular, alienated many female voters by dodging questions about equal pay legislation, pledging to defund Planned Parenthood and overturn Roe v. Wade, and backing legislation that would allow employers to deny women birth control coverage.The Hill: President Obama won women by 10% while Romney won men by 8% …. Matching the 1984 election when Ronald Reagan defeated Democrat Walter Mondale in a landslide (18% gender gap).
- The Senate will vote Thursday on the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would expand and strengthen the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and make it illegal for employers to punish women for bringing up pay disparity issues. Dana Perino, a Fox News contributor and former press secretary for President George W. Bush, called the equal pay issue "a distraction" from the country's real financial problems last week. "Well, it's just yet another distraction of dealing with the major financial issues that the country should be dealing with," Perino said. "This is not a job creator.“Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/27/womens-vote-2012-election_n_1832825.html#slide=1059001 Not saying this to laugh our snicker. It’s a warning. . . Jobs and the economy were the #1 issue … and the GOP stuck to the script. If they had gotten the nuances of the message and the policy connections … they would have been much more difficult to beat.
- Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), whose home state's legislature recently defunded Planned Parenthood and voted to pass a bill that would allow employers to deny women birth control coverage, delivered a floor speech in which he insisted that the war on women is something imaginary for Democrats to "sputter about." "My friends, this supposed 'War on Women' or the use of similarly outlandish rhetoric by partisan operatives has two purposes, and both are purely political in their purpose and effect: The first is to distract citizens from real issues that really matter and the second is to give talking heads something to sputter about when they appear on cable television," he said.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/27/womens-vote-2012-election_n_1832825.html#slide=1059002
- Missouri U.S. Senate candidate Sarah Steelman (R) took heat from her opponents in May when she contended that Democratic lawmakers' focus on the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act was "a distraction" from the issues they should be dealing with instead. "I think it's unfortunate that the Democrats have made a political football out of this thing, which I think is what they keep doing to distract from real problems that are facing our nation," she said in an interview with St. Louis Public Radio.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/27/womens-vote-2012-election_n_1832825.html#slide=1059004(Sarah Steelman ironically lost in the primary to Todd Akin. )
- South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) defended the Republican Party in April for going after insurance coverage for contraception by arguing that women don't actually care about contraception. "Women don't care about contraception," she said on ABC's The View. "They care about jobs and the economy and raising their families and all those other things.“http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/27/womens-vote-2012-election_n_1832825.html#slide=1059005
- It’s the gender gap and women’s issues, stupid! women served as part of Obama’s big happy rainbow party. They joined up with an impressive coalition of Latinos, African-Americans, and young people to put Obama over the top. In different counties in battleground states, one or another member of this demographic alliance turned out to be critical—young people and Latinos in Nevada, for example, or women in northern Virginia. In that state, the Obama won by only about 100,000 votes, and the Democrats lost support among white men, so you could safely say women gave that state to the president.http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2012/11/how_women_voted_in_2012_not_as_a_bloc_and_that_s_a_good_thing.html
- Connections between women, birth control, child care …etc.
- Connections between women, birth control, child care …etc.
- We’re working together … now we an connect our work to improve our results.
- Accountability and connecting the dots year round