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The Security Sex
Renew America ^ | Sept. 21, 2011 | Selwyn Duke

Posted on 09/27/2011 2:15:38 PM PDT by ReformationFan

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 that, ultimately, 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.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: duke; elections; emotiondriven; females; femalesuffrage; femalevoting; girls; girlsvoting; micromanage; security; selwynduke; statism; theharridanstate; thesecuritysex
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1 posted on 09/27/2011 2:15:46 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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To: ReformationFan
The reason women voted for Clinton was because they felt sorry for Hillary.
They figured if they could get the adulterous bastard elected president,Hillary could then divorce his sorry cheatin’ ass and keep The House.
2 posted on 09/27/2011 2:20:36 PM PDT by Happy Rain ("Yer it!")
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To: ReformationFan
One is that, being the more emotion-driven sex, women are more susceptible to liberals' emotional appeals.

Silly little darlings...

3 posted on 09/27/2011 2:20:59 PM PDT by Kenton (Barack Obama - Lowering American Expectations Since 2008)
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To: ReformationFan

One conclusion that could be drawn from this: The majority of women are IDIOTS.


4 posted on 09/27/2011 2:22:20 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: ReformationFan
How Dramatically Did Women's Suffrage Change the Size and Scope of Government? by John Lott, Jr.
5 posted on 09/27/2011 2:24:31 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Palin is coming, and the Tea Party is coming with her.)
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To: ReformationFan

The women got the vote and the nation got Harding.


6 posted on 09/27/2011 2:25:43 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ceterum autem censeo, Obama delenda est.)
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To: ReformationFan

Actually, I read an article on this a number of years ago. It can be further granularized. If you remove married women from the list it is wildly liberal. Single women want the government to be their sugar daddy. It’s the welfare state writ large: The state is better than a man because it won’t waste the money on booze, it won’t gamble away the rent check, it won’t sleep around and, let’s face it, living with another adult that doesn’t acquiesce to your every whim is just, well, hard.


7 posted on 09/27/2011 2:30:38 PM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: Kenton

There’s also the appeal of the message that says “it’s not your fault”.


8 posted on 09/27/2011 2:32:41 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: ReformationFan

Not only is ‘The View’ a hit, it is considered a show analyzing current events.

The demographic overlap between the observation in the thread, and the audience of The View is no coincidence.


9 posted on 09/27/2011 2:36:11 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs (Does beheading qualify as 'breaking my back', in the Jeffersonian sense of the expression?)
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To: cuban leaf
living with another adult that doesn’t acquiesce to your every whim is just, well, hard.

Did you really just write that?

10 posted on 09/27/2011 2:39:09 PM PDT by frithguild (We admitted we were powerless over government - that out lives had become unmanageable)
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To: ReformationFan

Although in gross numbers this is true, what is important in elections is the SHIFT in voters. In 2004, the shift in women voters toward Bush is what gave him his second term (the male vote between the parties remaind virtually unchanged from 2000).

This “women are silly” message is not a good one for conservatives to persue. It will hurt them.

More women are Independents than men. Conservatives will probably never get a majority of women’s votes ... but they can steadily get MORE of them. This is what is important.

Alienating potential voters, no matter how few, is not a smart political move (look how the liberal meme of voters not being smart enough hurt them in 2010).

Plus, there are many solidly conservative women who are turned off by this message.

Keep these statistics in mind:
1. There are more women eligible to vote than there are men eligible to vote.
2. There are more women registered to vote than men.
3. Registered women voters actually vote in larger percentages than male registerd voters. (In 2004, 8.8 MILLION more women voted than men did).

So even small shifts in women’s votes can make a big difference in an election.

You don’t have to have all the women’s votes, you just have to have enough to win.


11 posted on 09/27/2011 2:52:46 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: ReformationFan

Bump


12 posted on 09/27/2011 2:52:46 PM PDT by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: Spktyr

They’re treating this country like a club, where they will let in thsoe who let them party, or who are ‘fun,’ but they don’t want to be part of a team that requires that they set aside personal preferences for the sake of the success of the ocmpany. They treat the workforce and this country as a playground where the responsible look out for them rather than looking after themselves.

With some unpleasant professional experiences in the workplace as a teenager, I can personally tell you with all sincerity that often in the workforce, they are looking for security and want to turn the workplace into a country club, not a place where they work together ot make the company work. It’s all about them and who they like being there and if they don’t like you, they will work to make it so miserable until you are driven out, no matter the cost to the company.

For them it’s all about a check, a place to socialize, and a place where they can be catered to (along with their chronically unstable temperments) and pampered. Not about working, learning the right skills, and taking pride on doing a good job.


13 posted on 09/27/2011 3:06:43 PM PDT by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: ReformationFan

Although in gross numbers this is true, what is important in elections is the SHIFT in voters. In 2004, the shift in women voters toward Bush is what gave him his second term (the male vote between the parties remaind virtually unchanged from 2000).

This “women are silly” message is not a good one for conservatives to persue. It will hurt them.

More women are Independents than men. Conservatives will probably never get a majority of women’s votes ... but they can steadily get MORE of them. This is what is important.

Alienating potential voters, no matter how few, is not a smart political move (look how the liberal meme of voters not being smart enough hurt them in 2010).

Plus, there are many solidly conservative women who are turned off by this message.

Keep these statistics in mind:
1. There are more women eligible to vote than there are men eligible to vote.
2. There are more women registered to vote than men.
3. Registered women voters actually vote in larger percentages than male registerd voters. (In 2004, 8.8 MILLION more women voted than men did).

So even small shifts in women’s votes can make a big difference in an election.

You don’t have to have all the women’s votes, you just have to have enough to win.


14 posted on 09/27/2011 3:15:24 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: ReformationFan

This is the most sexist, vomit inducing, stereotypical drivel I have ever read. Whatever idiot male wrote this has no knowledge of women whatsoever, outside of an abnormal fantasy life. Most Tea Party members are women, myself included.


15 posted on 09/27/2011 3:26:47 PM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: Lorianne
"Alienating potential voters, no matter how few, is not a smart political move"

OK. Women are not all just silly emotional voters.

Unless, of course, they are supporters of Ron Paul. In which case they are pot-smoking, unpatriotic, pro-abort, pro-homo isolationists!

/sarc

16 posted on 09/27/2011 4:00:17 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: sportutegrl
This is the most sexist, vomit inducing, stereotypical drivel I have ever read. Whatever idiot male wrote this has no knowledge of women whatsoever, outside of an abnormal fantasy life. Most Tea Party members are women, myself included.
That gets a 'like'!
17 posted on 09/27/2011 4:04:58 PM PDT by Mama Shawna
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To: sportutegrl; Mama Shawna
This is the most sexist,...

No, not really, read the article first before jumping to this conclusion. The author specifically mentions married women with children as NOT fitting this category of women wanting a nanny state. He goes into the reasons why. Apparently you two are not like your divorced, single mom-never-married, sisters and really resent being in the same cohort as them, i.e. women. That is a GOOD thing!

18 posted on 09/27/2011 4:52:56 PM PDT by SandwicheGuy (*The butter acts as a lubricant and speeds up the CPU*)
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This thread could easily turn into a women-bashing thread but that is not what it is about. The article explains it well, better than I perhaps. Women being used as a cat’s paw is the take-away.


19 posted on 09/27/2011 4:57:56 PM PDT by SandwicheGuy (*The butter acts as a lubricant and speeds up the CPU*)
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To: ReformationFan; BillyBoy; Diana in Wisconsin; Allegra; calcowgirl; fieldmarshaldj; GOPsterinMA; ...

Repeal the 19th!!!!

I’m kidding ladies don’t hurt me!!!


20 posted on 09/27/2011 5:08:43 PM PDT by Impy (Don't call me red.)
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