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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP Strategists Fear Gender Gap Could Grow
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/08/06/gop_strategists_fear_gender_gap_could_grow.html
August 06, 2013
GOP Strategists Fear Gender Gap Could Grow
National Journal: "When the House Judiciary Committee passed a late-term abortion ban in June, Republican leaders scrambled to find a female, media-savvy legislator to bring the legislation to the floor. Their biggest problem: Not a single Republican woman was represented among the committee's 23 Republican members. They eventually settled on Tennessee Rep. Marsha Blackburn, who isn't on the Judiciary Committee."
"The episode underscored a growing problem that is worrying Republicans: Women are badly underrepresented within their party in the Congress. Only eight percent of House Republicans are women, and there are only four female Republican senators. Of the long list of potential 2016 GOP presidential contenders, there's not a single woman."
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GOP Strategists Fear Gender Gap Could Grow (Original Post)
babylonsister
Aug 2013
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tanyev
(42,360 posts)1. Any thoughts as to how you find yourself in that predicament, GOP?
A Republican Super PAC prominently features a game on their website that allows users to slap former secretary of state and possible 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton across the face. The game is being hosted on the website for The Hillary Project, an anti-Clinton Super PAC that lists its address in Nashua, New Hampshire, according to FEC filings, and has Christopher M. Marston, a Republican campaign finance consultant and former member of the Bush administration, as its treasurer.
The website states that the game was Created and produced by The SlapHillary Team, and began spamming reporters to its existence Monday with the tweet, Have you slapped Hillary today?
http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/republican-superpac-wants-you-to-slap-hillary-clinton-across
The website states that the game was Created and produced by The SlapHillary Team, and began spamming reporters to its existence Monday with the tweet, Have you slapped Hillary today?
http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/republican-superpac-wants-you-to-slap-hillary-clinton-across
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)2. It'll be multigenerational too because
women who are aware will teach their daughters as well.
RainDog
(28,784 posts)3. any woman who votes for a Republican is an asshole n/t
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)4. you have a gender gap because you are anti-women. Think about it, GOP.
get the red out
(13,459 posts)5. Wow how shocking!
I am amazed that the GOP can push its theological control on women, demean women, and seek to destroy women who say things they don't like and women just aren't in love with the GOP.