GOP survey confirms Republicans have a real problem with single women
Republicans have known they have a problem with women voters for decades, but the problem has become especially pronounced in recent cycles. The gender gap among women voters favoring Democrats has only grown wider in the Obama-era. But the first step to crafting a prescription aimed at addressing a problem is to identify it accurately and with clinical precision. To that end, Republican groups commissioned a GOP poll of registered women voters. Their findings were not pretty.
Politico was provided with a copy of the survey's results, some of which were unsurprising but others were. While it is no great shock that the GOP performs "especially poorly" appealing to women in the Northeast, it is surprising and problematic for the party that they get the same reception from women in the Midwest.
Moreover, the report found that even the GOP's areas of traditional strength, like financial issues, are met with a cold reception by women due to their opposition to the Republican Party on other issues.
The GOP does perform better with married women than they do single women – the poll found that married women back a GOP candidate over a Democrat by 10 points – but this is not enough to close the gender gap. In 2012, women made up 53 percent of the presidential electorate. Barack Obama won that demographic by 55 to 44 percent, despite losing married women (who made up 31 percent of the electorate) by 53 to 46 percent...Also read:
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