WHAT DO WOMEN WANT???

One of the things that we may finally learn from this year’s midterm elections is what it is that women may actually want. Do they want to be able to find a job or do they want nothing more than to have unfettered access to birth control? Now if you’ve spent any amount of time listening to Democrats running for election, or re-election, this November you’d think that it’s the latter that is much more important to women than is the former.

Case in point is Democrat Jeanne Shaheen, Senator from New Hampshire and who, as it just so happens, is up for re-election. It was our esteemed Ms. Sheehan who recently walked into a roomful of primarily Democrat New Hampshire women voters and presented what was a very simple pitch: She would be more focused on their issues than her challenger, Scott Brown, the former Republican U.S. senator from Massachusetts.

Shaheen told her supporters, after collecting the endorsement of the state chapter of abortion rights activist group NARAL, "We need to make sure that women and families understand what the choice here is because this is a close race." Shaheen is one of the three Democrat incumbent female U.S. senators up for re-election in November. Republicans consider all three seats vulnerable as they look to take a majority in the Senate.

In an effort to fire up core supporters and attract independent women voters, both Shaheen and her North Carolina counterpart, Democrat Kay Hagan, have been focusing much of their campaigning on nothing more than the protecting of access to abortion, as well as women's health generally, issues that they hope can offset their opponents' focus on unpopular Barry "Almighty". But yet there’s been nary a mention of women unemployment.

The third female Democratic incumbent, Senator Mary Landrieu, has sought to avoid the issue in her re-election bid in conservative Louisiana. Democrats' strategy to seize on what was termed a "war on women" by Republicans was particularly effective in 2012. But with literally millions of women unable to find a job, you’d think it would be relatively easy to see which political party is actually at war with women.

Some fella by the name of Neil Levesque, who is the executive director of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at St. Anselm's College said, "Women voters are the most important component going into the final few weeks of this campaign." He added, "There are some issues which will get a voter into their car in the middle of a blizzard." He said, "Reproductive issues, Second Amendment issues will traditionally do that."

So what’s it gonna be, ladies? Will you once again prove just how gullible you are by again falling for an argument that is so blatantly political? Or will you, perhaps, finally be able to see through all of the BS, and then vote accordingly. If there is one thing I’ve learned in my 60+ years on this planet, it’s that there is absolutely no way to determine what a woman will do in any given situation, and voting is no different. All we can is to cross our fingers and hope for the best.