Women, white people: Is that what campaign 2012 is coming down to?

LA TIMES ^ | 8/9/12 | David Lauter

[SoFloFreeper]

President Obama appeals to women by pushing the issue of access to contraceptives, while Mitt Romney accuses him of watering down welfare reform — an issue that tends to stir up feelings about race among whites.

With the election still locked in a near-tie, the politics of gender and race have moved into the spotlight of the presidential campaign.

For most of the summer, the debate has focused on two things: the state of the economy and Mitt Romney's background in business. But in recent days, the two campaigns have added new, sharp-edged issues to the mix.

[SoFloFreeper]

So Obamugabe cares about women and Mitt is a racist.

[skeeter]

an issue that tends to stir up feelings about race among whites.

Racist supposition by the writer. It stirs up feelings about unfairness among working people.

[Paladin2]

"Hey, Where are the white women at?"

[Paladin2]

"Hey, Where are the white women at?"

fixed

[ConservativeStatement]

Obama cares about women who want to kill babies or women who are self-centered and have bumper stickers that read "stop violence against women"; apparently, they are in favor or unaware of the violence caused by women. How about we stop violence, period. Women who are Conservatives or lean to the right are usually not swayed by that type of liberal hogwash. Conservative women think, liberal and undecided women feel. BTW, as I have said before, in my experiences, it is women who called Sarah Palin the B and C words, more so than men. Those are likely the same women who got upset with Limbaugh's description of this Fluke character.

[sten]

[JimRed]

Hey, it's OUR fault, after all, we gave them the vote! < /sarc >

But seriously, folks, I heard a pundit mention the other day that there is a growing number of single women with a government-as-husband mindset. They're always going to vote for whoever gives them stuff.

[Paladin2]

Their name are Julia.

[txrefugee]

CA needs a real newspaper...or none. Compared to the LAT, Pravda was an objective source.

[Paladin2]

http://www.barackobama.com/life-of-julia/

[varon]

................the politics of gender and race have moved into the spotlight of the presidential campaign.

Since being the "first black president" worked so well for him in '08, perhaps he'll go for the "first mulatto president" during the balance of his campaign in '12.

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[sickoflibs]

RE :”Recent polling data from swing states demonstrates that. Obama loses badly among white men, but in the states where he has been able to keep a lead, he has done so because support from white women offsets that deficit. For the president's reelection team, a key goal is to expand the size of that female majority. Romney, meanwhile, needs to boost his support among white voters by reminding them of their anxieties about Obama’s presidency.
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A new round of polls from closely divided states highlights those racial and gender divisions. Comparing two hotly contested swing states, polls by Quinnipiac University for the New York Times and CBS News show Obama behind by 5 percentage points among likely voters in Colorado, 45% to 50%, but ahead by 6 percentage points in Ohio, 50% to 44%. A central reason for the difference was that in Ohio, Obama only narrowly trailed Romney among white voters, while in Colorado he was losing by 13 percentage points among whites.
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The white voters most opposed to Obama have consistently been men who do not have a college degree. Among those voters, Obama trailed by 32 percentage points in Colorado and 24 percentage points in Ohio. He trailed by an even bigger margin, 42 percentage points, among non-college-educated white men in a third swing state, Virginia, according to the Quinnipiac surveys.
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One repeated finding of polls over the last decade has been that white men without college educations strongly believe Washington has failed to look out for their interests and think that government spending primarily benefits others — including insider elites and minorities. The Romney campaign's sally into the welfare issue hits directly at those concerns.”

White women..free Birth control.... Obama is trotting out activist-victim-hero Sandra Fluke.... Romney counters with some RINO babes.

[dalebert]

white women and lesbians ...not jobs

[pieceofthepuzzle]

Republicans and conservatives should not let themselves get drawn into these kinds of dichotomies. We should emphasize that this is not about women, or race, or a particular religion. This is about the division between those of us who believe in individual freedom and self determinism vs. those who believe that government should have significant control of our lives.

We oppose Sandra Fluke not because we don't want her to have access to birth control, or because we want to control her sexual life, but because we believe that free self-determining people should pay for their own choices - not force others to pay for their life choices.

Abortion is different, because it involves another life, the life of a child who is not capable of defending itself. We should not let liberals define anti-abortion sentiments as an attack on the individual rights of women, but rather define it as protection of the individual rights of a child to be born and survive.

[Mr. K]

I am just dying to see Chrissy Matthews on election night crying about how Americans showed “how racist they are” for not re-electing a black man...

[Mr. K]

Ann Coulter screamed at single women last night (and rightfully so)

She said that they may get free contraceptives from Obama but they will lose child support if their ex-husband does not have a job!!!

I think this is a winner~! and we should go with it

[Paladin2]

Fluke should take on the job of being Julia NoSeed, ‘rat ho’, walking around the country side distributing free condoms.

[dalebert]

Hey alot of these white women are getting benefits by not declaring who the dad of their kids are. He just stays with them..no way will they mess up their checks. How about a survey among working white women not on any programs .

[Ditter]

I have seen 1, one, exactly ONE obama 2012 bumper stickers on cars. I never see an old obama sticker anymore. Where are his supporters?