Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Vote for me, I'm a woman!

Ashe Schow writes in the Washington Examiner that Hillary Clinton
appears to be making the shift toward running a campaign based on women’s issues.

..But if her platform of largely focusing on women’s issues turns off male voters, the strategy could fail, as it did for former Democratic Sen. Mark "Uterus" Udall in Colorado.

Democrats have a huge problem with white male voters. If that group feels threatened by Clinton’s women focus and returns unusually large Republican margins, that will help the GOP nominee. If white male Democrats don’t think they’d be adequately represented by Clinton, they could stay home, while white male Republicans could be galvanized into voting against her.

So before she goes down this path, Clinton might want to study Udall’s failures.
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