Monday, October 20, 2014

Appealing to Women Voters

Mona Charen writes a good column for The Washington Examiner on how the Republican Party can do a better job of appealing to women, and in particular single women. As she notes, the emphasis shouldn't be gynecological but on ways to make women and children safer and less impoverished.

Pitching self-reliance to a single mom who doesn't get child support regularly (or at all) is a hard sell, she could use some help and knows it. Charen admits single women voters have an element of wanting government to be a husband-substitute that will be hard for the GOP to buy into. She suggests we look for things to offer that are consonant with our values.