Part of the problem for the Democrats is that they forget most women have a male partner (and many have sons). They realize that they can’t just focus on narrow “women’s issues”.
0zer0 won in 2008 partly because he dominated the woman vote. That’s why the dumbcrats are desperate to try to replicate this in 2012. I think this election is going to be a squeaker, but if the dumbcrats lose the woman vote, it will be a bloodbath for them like 2010. They will lose the Senate and the White House. They understand this so they have to keep pushing gender warfare. Hopefully, they will over reach and fail just like everything else they try.
“They realize that they can’t just focus on narrow “women’s issues”.”
They probably realize that like the “youth vote”, they are losing the “femi-nazi” vote as well (based strictly on financial considerations), and have to at least reign them back in. There are few demographics that are “better off than four years ago” (government employees, illegal aliens), so they are going to have to fight for every single vote.
Any Republican candidate should be a shoe-in simply because nobody believes Obama can fix anything anymore, and many believe that Obama doesn’t even think there are problems (he is detached in a wierd way). It isn’t even about assigning blame at this point; people will happily let Obama off the hook and sing his praises while they cast their ballots for his adult opponent. While Romney wasn’t my first choice, he’ll easily beat Obama because while many point out his lack of conservatism, the most important thing for Romney is that he hasn’t failed yet.