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The Security Sex: Why Women Vote for Liberals
American Thinker ^ | September 15, 2011 | Selwyn Duke

Posted on 09/15/2011 6:03:17 AM PDT by Paladins Prayer

We have all heard about the sex gap in voting patterns. This is the phenomenon whereby, in every election, women are far more likely to support liberal candidates than men are. For instance, in 1996, Bill Clinton captured 54 percent of the women's vote but only 43 percent of the men's. And in subsequent elections, the male-female gap has been as follows: in 2000, Al Gore, 42-54; in 2004, John Kerry, 41-51; and in 2008, Barack Obama, 49-56. In fact, even in the watershed election of 2010, during which we heard about the rise of the conservative woman, the fairer sex favored Democrats by 1 point, 49 to 48. The Republican victories were attributable to a sex gap (I don't use the word "gender") that was as wide as ever, ranging from 4 to 19 points.

So, clearly, women tend to gravitate toward statist candidates. And there are many reasons for this. One is that, being the more emotion-driven sex, women are more susceptible to liberals' emotional appeals. Another is that where men are big-picture-oriented, women are detail-oriented. This feminine quality is wonderful when handling young children, whose lives must be micro-managed; the problem is that it also leads to acceptance of a micro-managing government -- and such a Leviathan will treat us all like children. And then you have not just a nanny state (a feminine descriptive, mind you), but what we are quickly descending into: The Harridan State.

Yet there is an even greater reason why women veer left, and it's the one I'll focus on today.

They are the Security Sex.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: liberals; politics; voting; women
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To: Paladins Prayer

I don’t know about as a replacement (I can only speak from a conservative POV though) but we probably do look for the same qualities in the person who runs our country as the person at the head of our family.

Since there is a big difference between what conservative women and liberal women admire and look for in men, this also shows in the qualities we admire (and vote for) in a president.


21 posted on 09/15/2011 6:39:39 AM PDT by nodumbblonde ("The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity." - Ayn Rand)
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To: Paladins Prayer

Government makes no “demands” for the support, you know, like being polite and decent and loyal.


22 posted on 09/15/2011 6:39:47 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: Aevery_Freeman

It is NO ACCIDENT that the left’s policies have systematically dismantled the traditional family.

The family is the enemy of the communist utopia.


23 posted on 09/15/2011 6:42:13 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: Paladins Prayer

Yes, it’s a persistent pattern—but not as large as most people imagine. Just about 4 women out of 100 vote more liberally than an equivalent 100 men would vote.


24 posted on 09/15/2011 6:43:01 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Paladins Prayer

We made the mistake of giving females the right to vote and we are now paying for it.


25 posted on 09/15/2011 6:45:43 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
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To: cuban leaf
And giving women the vote is what has caused the relatively swift dash to socialism we’ve seen. Not saying it’s bad or good, but just that it’s the kind of government you get when you add the female vote to that of the men who do vote for security over freedom. It is inevitable and totally predictable.

Unfortunately, you are correct. I've had this conversation with my wife. It generally doesn't end well.

26 posted on 09/15/2011 6:49:13 AM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: Paladins Prayer
Women vote disproportionately for liberals for the same reason other liberal voting blocks do - self interest. For some liberal voters the self interest is the continuation of government programs and giveaways. For some it is the promise of diminished immigration laws and amnesty. For some it is the perception that liberals will provide them with more grant money. For some it is the perception that they will get ‘free’ medical care.

And, for too many, it is the belief that the liberals will promote the demographic they belong to and punish those in the demographics that liberals don't like (e.g. ‘the rich’, ‘privileged white men’, ‘those religious nuts’, ‘those greedy doctors’, and ‘those disgusting air-headed women who don't work, dote on their families, and go to PTA meetings etc.’).

Some women vote for liberals for somewhat less passionate ‘practical’ self interests, such as the belief that liberals will favor women in the work place, and essentially keep in place policy advantages that specifically help women. I believe, however, that a lot of women who vote for liberals do so because of more passionate self interest issues that often have to do with resentment. These are the women who at some level resent what they perceive as the ‘male establishment’, or any ‘establishment’ that ‘wants to put them in a box’.

They resent what they perceive as sexist traditional religion, and often either embrace secularism, or a ‘progressive’ religious movement. They resent, and for some actually hate, the concept of ‘traditional values’, because for them this concept smacks of ‘Father Knows Best’.

For these women, voting liberal is an act of defiance, and many are too entrenched in their resentment of what they think conservatives represent to be swayed by alternative arguments. In the words of Tom Petty, they are ‘Rebels without a clue’.

These women fervently dislike Palin because of what they think she stands for. Palin is the cute cheerleader and tomboy combination that didn't fight against the ‘man's world’, but instead embraced it and has become successful in it. She's everything they resent. On a much more mundane level, in my opinion many women have a problem with successful women that their husbands might like. It was OK for women to fawn about Bill Clinton, with their husbands in tow, and for a supposedly educated ‘liberal’ woman to ask ‘boxers or briefs?’, but if a political candidate that men think is beautiful comes on the scene turnabout is not considered fair play.

My long diatribe for the morning..

27 posted on 09/15/2011 6:50:16 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: Oldpuppymax

Women’s suffrage really isn’t the problem.
The problem is the societal and political agenda to destroy the family.

Otherwise, families would get 2 votes, one from the husband and one from the wife.


28 posted on 09/15/2011 6:51:23 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: Paladins Prayer

-——Women want government to take the place of hubby.——

Or perhaps daddy.

Several I know are sold on doing it themselves, have been told they must be advocates for some cause, must make a difference and strive constantly to increase their own self esteem. The result is owning a house they bought with a loan they can’t afford meaning the electric and phone bills don’t get paid. Daddy pays the phone bill to insure he can call her if need be.

But it’s ok. No heat in January is the price to be paid for living the life.


29 posted on 09/15/2011 6:52:01 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 ....Rats carry plague)
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To: InvisibleChurch

very god point.


30 posted on 09/15/2011 6:58:43 AM PDT by squarebarb
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To: InvisibleChurch

very good point.


31 posted on 09/15/2011 6:58:58 AM PDT by squarebarb
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To: InterceptPoint

—I’ve had this conversation with my wife. It generally doesn’t end well.—

My wife and I are in complete agreement on this. I like to say that being a man, I know the heart of man. And she says that being a woman, she knows the heart of woman.

She is the first woman that ever told me that women are morally worse than men. They just hide it better. I’ve learned that she is absolutely right, and she agrees with solomon, but I’m gonna leave it at that before I sound like a woman basher. I love her like crazy and that is what the Bible tells me to do. I also have 4 daughters that I love “almost” as much.


32 posted on 09/15/2011 7:06:49 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: trapped_in_LA
What he says is true, but I imagine is deeply, deeply offensive to most modern day women.

Anyone offended by the truth has his priorities out of order.

33 posted on 09/15/2011 7:07:00 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Paladins Prayer
The continuing problem is they also have trouble admitting they made a mistake. They will spend years justifying why they did something wrong.
34 posted on 09/15/2011 7:23:14 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Obama is a Communist, a Muslim, and an illegal alien)
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To: Vor Lady
Hey, don't be painting with a broad brush there.

Heh heh.

35 posted on 09/15/2011 7:24:48 AM PDT by tnlibertarian (Don't mend SS, end it.)
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To: Paladins Prayer

I think it’s very important to look at marital status when analyzing how women vote.

I believe there is more of a “spinster gap” than a “sex gap.”


36 posted on 09/15/2011 7:29:44 AM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Are you better off now than you were four trillion dollars ago?)
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To: Paladins Prayer

From the article:
It’s a danger Thomas Jefferson warned of when saying, “Anyone who would sacrifice liberty for security doesn’t deserve either.”

Wrong attribution... Benjamin Franklin said that.

Did a man write this article?...


37 posted on 09/15/2011 7:34:07 AM PDT by Outlaw Woman (GOD 2012 because no one else will do)
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To: Paladins Prayer

“fights the bloating, the cramping, the irritability, and the voting for Democrats”


38 posted on 09/15/2011 7:37:52 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: blackdog

So... I assume you are studying up on low cost digital video editing. You could go a long way with a few nice commercials showing her why you really need a new bandsaw, shotgun, Camaro, etc.


39 posted on 09/15/2011 7:39:21 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: Paladins Prayer
Women want government to take the place of hubby.

In many cases, women need government to take the place of a missing hubby. This is just another manifestation that God has created us to be in a man/woman couple.

40 posted on 09/15/2011 7:47:38 AM PDT by 5thGenTexan
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