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.

DO WOMEN SEE DEMOCRATS AS LOSING SOME OF THEIR LUSTER???

Well supposedly, if recent polls are anywhere near being correct it would seem to appear that Democrats may be beginning to lose some of their appeal at least for some women and oddly enough it’s global unrest that’s being blamed as part of the reason. In a recent New York Times/CBS News poll, and a Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey, a shift in the traditional edge Democrats have over Republicans among women was noted.

In the Times/CBS News poll, for example, asked the question: "If the 2014 election for United States House of Representatives seats were being held today, would you vote for the Republican candidate or the Democratic candidate in your district?" And in answering women picked Democrats over Republicans by just one point, 43 percent to 42 percent. I would have thought women might have been too busy using their free birth control to answer.

And then it was in the Journal/NBC News survey that when women were asked if they wanted the midterm elections to produce a Democrat - or GOP-led Congress, it was 47 percent of them who chose Democrats while 40 percent said they actually preferred a Republican majority. And this is quite significant when you consider it was just a month earlier that women favored a Democrat controlled Congress by 51-37 percent.

American Thinker reported that, "Perhaps what we are seeing here is the awakening of the under-appreciated 'Wal-Mart mom' Jacksonians." Adding, "But when things seem to be going reasonably well, their Jacksonianism lies dormant, and they can appear to be non-interventionists. It is only when threats pile up and the world begins to seem less safe that Americans reveal their true foreign policy colors."

It also noted that many Americans, including, apparently, many women, favor the use of force abroad to protect U.S. interests. And it was also the American Thinker that reported, "Though Obama’s "war on women" rhetoric has served him well to date, it may be losing its pull among women now concerned about, well, actual wars." One Democrat pollster said as much to the Journal after its survey found the shrinking appeal of the party with women voters.

I don’t know, when it comes to voting, or to selecting for whom to vote, women tend to have a rather strange methodology. And as I have said before, where blacks focus primarily on race, women tend to focus on gender. Because any female candidate, as long as their liberal, is better than any male, or conservative, candidate. But I’m constantly amazed at the ease with which women with children can vote for those who are busy destroying the future of those children.

So I think that’s it’s still way too early to say with any level of confidence that women are beginning to see the light as far as their continued willingness to vote for Democrats is concerned. And for them to continue to do so is proof that they are committed to living in denial and there is no way to convince them of the error of their ways. The are robbing from their children the ability to live the American dream and are instead dooming them to a life of poverty.

DO WOMEN EVEN KNOW WHAT THEY WANT???

Frankly I’ve always thought that all most women wanted in order to be happy, and therefore persuaded into voting for Democrats, was to be provided with free, and unlimited, birth control and unrestricted access to an abortion right up to the time they were being wheeled into the delivery room. In at least that the last two election cycles it was that that seemed to have been the overriding issue and the one that seemed to be the most important to a majority of women. And any candidate who opposed such things was accused of being at ‘war with women’.

And one of those women was Kimberly Cole, who is a 36-year-old mother of three young children in Valencia, California. She was part of that so-called coalition which made it possible in 2008 for Barry to become the 44th president and that would also ensure, in 2012, that he would enjoy another four years in office. She was only too happy to buy all of Barry’s empty promises of ‘Hope and Change.’ Now, apparently, she is among the majority of Americans who have lost confidence in Barry’s so-called ‘leadership’ and the job he’s doing as president.

And it was during a recent interview that this gullible airhead, Ms. Cole, demonstrated just how naïve she really was, and remains. She said, "He’s been faced with a lot of challenges, and he’s lost his way." She claims to be worried that Barry lacks the resolve needed at a time when things at home and abroad seem to be unraveling. So Barry has been faced with a lot of challenges? How about the fact that he’s hip deep in a number of pretty serious scandals! Does that little fact bother this moron in the least? Apparently not, as she makes no reference to any of them.

Meanwhile on the opposite side of the country we have yet another rather disappointed, and just as naïve, female in the person of Karlene Richardson, 44, who once counted herself as a "very strong supporter" of Barry. But now she feels much the same as Cole does. This author and motivational speaker who teaches health-care administration at a community college in Queens said, "Honestly, I just feel that what I bought into is not what I’m getting." Adding "I’m starting to wonder whether the world takes us seriously." Well the answer to that is a simple one, NO!

Both of these women, Cole and Richardson, were among those recently surveyed in the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll and represent one of its most striking findings. That being, the degree to which Barry’s approval has managed to slip among key parts of the coalition, comprised of a rather odd assortment of supporters, that was most responsible for putting him into office in the first place. The coalition of women, younger voters and Latino voters. Look, all of these people knew what they were getting, and now they have little right to complain.

Women surveyed said they now disapprove of Barry by a 50 percent to 44 percent margin, which is very near to an all-time low in the poll. It’s almost the reverse of the 55 percent to 44 percent breakdown for Barry among female voters in 2012, according to exit polls at the time. His approval rating among women has slipped four percentage points from a year ago and 16 points since his second inaugural in January 2013, when his approval was 60 percent among the group. So it would seem that the criteria women used in selecting for whom to vote was a little faulty.

Of all the groups that tend to vote Democrat, women are said to be, traditionally, the most likely to be swing voters, and the two parties have fought fiercely to win over their loyalties. And the Democrats, using their mantra of the ‘war on women’, have managed to come out ahead in the more recent election cycles. At slightly over half the electorate, they are not a monolith, of course. Single women, or the free birth control crowd, tend to vote more solidly Democrat, while married women usually tend to vote Republican.

But there is fresh and growing evidence that many women’s faith in Barry has turned to misgivings, possibly making it more difficult for his party to retain their support in this year’s midterms and beyond. Virginia Wilson, 60, of Charleston, W.Va., is another disillusioned Barry voter. She said, "I can’t blame it all on him." But she added, "There was going to be a change, that we would see people coming together, instead of falling apart." So I’m curious, why might it be that she has difficulty blaming the one guy most responsible for things "falling apart?"

Suburban women’s concerns, in particular, tends to change from election to election, and over the years, pollsters and political strategists have come up with different labels to describe this crucial slice of the electorate. In the 1990s, these middle-class women were known as "soccer moms," and ‘Slick Willie’ Clinton won reelection in part because of how well he related to their harried lives. And apparently these "soccer moms" had very little trouble in deciding to support this rapist, which, I suppose, tells us far more about them than it does the rapist, ‘Slick Willie.’

In the Post-ABC poll, Barry’s handling of international affairs loomed as a significant problem for women. Just 37 percent said they approve of the job he is doing, which is his lowest rating on this issue among women in Post-ABC polls and nearly matches his 38 percent approval among men. When called back for follow-up interviews, some of the women who responded to the Post-ABC poll said they, too, had been unsettled by the beheadings and by Barry’s decision to play golf just minutes after giving a statement expressing his revulsion at the death of journalist James Foley.

Cole, the California woman, said it seemed to her that Barry was "very nonchalant. . . . The personal side of it, that he has feelings, is gone." And Richardson, interviewed before Barry gave his idiotic prime-time speech this past Wednesday, during which he laid out his newly minted plan to target the non-Islamic, Islamic State with airstrikes, said "he just made these promises that he doesn’t go through with" related to the terrorist group. How much effect this will have on the midterm elections remains unclear. But I’d be willing to bet, not much.

Because look, at the end of the day the fact that women may now be coming a little less enchanted with Barry matters very little, at least in the long term. Because, you see, women are much like blacks when it comes to selecting who to vote for. For blacks the main criteria for selecting candidate is race, things like experience or abilities matter very little. For women, the primary qualifier for a candidate is gender. Talk to any woman about 2016 and they’ll likely tell you that, yes, they intend to vote for Hitlery and for absolutely no other reason than because she’s a woman.