Politics

http://s.erious.ly

Posts tagged "women"

Remember the gender gap? Still there.

Let's look at the latest national polling (excluding the daily trackers, which don't provide gender breakdowns), plus a couple of recent state polls: Compare it to two weeks ago, and it's clear that the gap hasn't gone anywhere. Obama maintains signif...

Republican men to study mysterious breed of Americans: Lady voters

Republican focus group on lady voters hard at work. May even include real ladies! Exciting news, ladies! Big strong Republican men, apparently unable to get Mitt Romney's chief adviser on Stuff That Ladies Care AboutTM (aka, Mrs. Romney) on the phon...

Rush Limbaugh demands YouTube remove Daily Kos video … watch it here

Remember Sandra Fluke? She's the law student who sent Rush Limbaugh into a multi-day rage for daring to speak out on behalf a friend who needed access to contraceptives for non-reproductive medical reasons. As a result, Limbaugh decided she was a prom...

This week in the War on Workers: What’s disingenuous about a seven-day fast?

Does this woman seem insincere to you? How can a hunger strike be "disingenuous"? That's how a spokeswoman for Station Casinos described a group of Station workers and their supporters' seven-day fast. Station Casino workers have gone without raises ...

Daddyshack

(Click to enlarge) As upsetting as the "War on Women 2012" has been, I managed to keep my cool, I think, until last week or so. But at some point between the Masters Tournament at creepy Augusta National and the character assassination of Hilary Rosen...

Mitt Romney should ignore gender gap? He has no choice

Before he cared about women. (Marvin Gentry/Reuters) After he realized he had a problem with women. (Tim Shaffer/Reuters) One of the advantages of being a conservative like Ramesh Ponnuru is that it's a virtue to ignore reality. On the day after Ri...

Ann Romney’s counter-attack fails

Mitt Romney at March campaign rally—before he had to pretend to care about the womenfolk. (Marvin Gentry/Reuters) From the latest CNN/ORC poll (PDF): Thinking about the following characteristics and qualities, please say whether you think each one...

Women hit hard by Republican cuts to jobs and services

There's one piece of fact on which Mitt Romney has built his ridiculous "Obama's war on women" tales: women have not done well in the recovery. (Never mind that you'd likely rather be on the losing side of a recovery than still stuck in recession.) Co...

New casualty in the War on Women: Mitt Romney

Republicans are really freaking out about the results of their war on women, leading to hilarious spin like this: "Governor Romney has been talking about issues that impact everyone and uniting people, and that's what we need in this country," Ayotte ...

Mitt Romney’s ‘Women for Romney’ surrogate is not for equal pay for women in Wisconsin

(Rick Wilking/Reuters) As he shakes the Etch A Sketch, Mitt Romney is trying hard to boost his appeal among women, after fully embracing the war on women just to keep up with Rick Santorum. After all, that was days ago. Weeks, maybe! The problem is t...

There are lies, damn lies, and then there’s Mitt Romney

Presenting the most absurd line of attack yet from Mitt Romney: "The real war on women has been the job losses as the result of the Obama economy," he told an audience in Wilmington, saying women had lost 92.3% of jobs lost under the Obama administrati...

Fantabulous news! Mitt Romney is wooing women

Mitt Romney loves women, dammit! (Darren Hauck/Reuters) Facing a gender gap as wide as the Grand Canyon, Mitt Romney and Republican strategists think it's time to kick his women wooing into high gear ... and they have five strategies to do it: He say...

Sponsorship

Publishers

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.