Here’s what I think is going on with this. Notice this whole controversy is happening right on the heels of the Komen kerfluffle? Obama knows that he is infuriating the conservatives, but he doesn’t care about them and he never has. What’s important is that he is getting the feminist left in a tizzy about evil Republicans and Christians trying to squash their “reproductive freedoms”.
It’s just his strategy for re-election, and I’ll think we’ll see him and his surrogates instigating these crises over all his target demographics’ key issues up until election day. That way, he hopes to drive up turnout high enough to make up for all the disenchanted voters he has lost.
It’s just his strategy for re-election, and I’ll think we’ll see him and his surrogates instigating these crises over all his target demographics’ key issues up until election day. That way, he hopes to drive up turnout high enough to make up for all the disenchanted voters he has lost.
“This will in a lot of ways be a faultline in this election,” says Bill Burton, who is with the pro-Obama super PAC Priorities USA Action. The election won’t turn on these kinds of cultural issues, but they can generate emotion and passion. Obama’s job approval is just above 50 percent among younger voters, a group that gave him 66 percent of their vote in 2008. “They’ve got to get young people jazzed up, and there are very few issues that get young women more jazzed up than contraception,” says Cook. Indeed, the Obama campaign website highlights the issue of contraception, along with the fact that it will be free once the Affordable Care Act is implemented.”