Women’s Votes Could Determine Election Outcome
By Don White
January 9, 2010
Statistics from the following are from the blog Woman's Watch, but our research confirms its findings:
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| Former Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi is now the leader of the Democrats in the House of Representatives and yields a lot of power, potentially as much or more than any Democrat man in Congress. |
- Women Are a Clear Majority of Voters
- Significant gender gaps in most polls this year (this was a 2008 trend, but seems true today as well) – with women more likely than men to favor the Democratic ticket– mean a heavy turnout among women could make the difference in a close election, according to the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP). The review of voting rates since 1964 is part of Women’s Vote Watch, a weekly look at the women’s vote in the 2008 presidential election.
- Women have voted at higher rates than men in every presidential election since 1980, and the number of women voters has exceeded the number of men voting in every presidential election since 1964, according to U.S. Bureau of the Census statistics. Women outnumber men among registered as well as actual voters.
What does the above mean? Perhaps it means both parties should be running a woman candidate instead of a man for president. It also means, the Democrat party probably made the wrong choice of a black over a woman when they favored Barak Oboma over Hilary Clinton by a wide margin in the 2008 Democratic Party Primary. Perhaps Hilary carried too much inherited baggage from Bill Clinton.
It is a known fact that women comprise a majority of high school students going on to college today. Men seem to have favored becoming high-paying "nerds" in high school and many of them by-passed college. Unless a man is a jock with a scholarship or has a heritage in his family of going to college, there are compelling reasons for him to prefer marriage and a potentially higher-paying job NOW rather than struggling for the next four years to get a degree of dubious value to him financially.
In IQ tests, a growing number of high school women students are scoring higher than their men counterparts. Does this mean women are inherently smarter than men? No. It means as students women apply themselves better than men. Women seem to be better adjusted, as a group, in high school. They seem to like the rigidity and focused program of a college curricula much better than their men counterparts who as freshmen in college are still highly motivated by their abundant testosterone that frequently gets in the way of putting their nose to the grindstone and really putting everything else aside and studying hard for grades.
As one anonymous Rutgers freshman said, "I don't think grades mean as much as they used to. In the long term, on the job it's the person who can transfer that knowledge to practical applications to get the job done who is most valuable, don't you think?"
We could agree if that person was a hospital nurse, for example, whose major value could be in how he/she handled the patients and performed medical functions like taking blood pressure, therapy, moving and turning patients over in bed, getting the patient to take their medication, and the like.
But in the long run, women becoming better students and smarter than men could mean that women gain the better paying jobs in business, science, and industry and that the less qualified men may wind up working for a woman--much the same way that in most businesses today it is a man, not a woman, at the helm, hiring and firing women. This trend is changing and withing a very short time it will be the woman at the top--if they can mentally perceive themselves breaking the illusory "glass ceiling."
Even today, many men stay home and nurture the children, while the better-trained woman goes to work and earns the paycheck. Sometimes that is a good thing, and in particular instances some men are actually better at home than even the women. But generally, this is a bad trend. Women are the natural nurturers, men are not. Nurturing children is the woman's natural role. But, unfortunately, in many cases for economic reasons those roles are reversing and the change in how a woman perceives herself is changing voting patterns, too.
In 2004, registered voters numbered 72.4 million women and 63.4 million men. With new voter registrations at an all time high in 2008 and in 2012, there are indications that women may be registering at higher rates than men in that election cycle, thereby adding to the advantage women have over men among potential voters. A May 2008 survey of state election officials by the Associated Press found that in the six states that collected voter data by gender comparing 2008 with 2004, the registration rate for new voters was up 89 percent among women, compared with 74 percent among men. We predict when surveys are done in 2012, the same result will be found. In other words, this is a national trend, not an outlying statistic.
In 2004, 8.8 million more women than men voted, according to official figures from the U.S. Bureau of the
Census. Based on past patterns and the data about new registrants, women voters easily outnumbered male
voters by more than 9 million in the 2008 election. “It is not surprising that the presidential campaigns are paying unprecedented attention to women voters [in 2012] this year,” observes Susan J. Carroll, senior scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics. “Women are a clear majority of the electorate and may play a pivotal role in the outcome of the election.”
Women outvoted men in 2004 (in terms of both turnout rates and actual numbers) in every racial and ethnic
group–African American, Latino, Asian/Pacific Islander, and white – and among voters under the age of 65.
Watch out, men, you are no longer the dominate gender in college, business, or politics, though the establishment in both parties, older men politician-hangers on, would like to say differently.
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| Jeanette Rankin, first woman to be elected to Congress in 1917, some- times known as the "Woman of the House." Add caption |
Women have been elected to the House of Representatives from 44 of the 50 states in the United States. The states that have not elected a woman to the house are Alaska, Delaware, Iowa, Mississippi, North Dakota, and Vermont. However, women have represented Alaska and North Dakota in the United States Senate, and Alaska, Delaware, and Vermont have all elected female governors. The highest position yet held by a woman in Iowa and Mississippi is that of Lt. Governor. There are several states that have elected women to the house in the past but do not currently have any female Representatives. They are Rhode Island, New Jersey, South Carolina, Georgia, Indiana, New Hampshire, Oklahoma,Louisiana, Utah, Idaho, Kentucky, Arkansas, Nebraska, Montana, Virginia and New Mexico.However, Louisiana currently has a woman representing it in the United States Senate, Senator Mary Landrieuand New Hampshire currently has two women representing it in the United States Senate, SenatorsJeanne Shaheen and Kelly Ayotte.
Why is Rick Santorum winning the GOP Primaries?--he has won four states to Romney's three--is a big question. But CNN said in Iowa the women are going for him big. CNN entrance polls showed that the majority of women were supporting Santorum at twenty-seven percent (despite the sweater vest). It wasn’t a woman candidate this time, but I’m convinced that it will happen. The other plus for him are the 40 million Catholics in America. He, rather than Newt who is also Catholic, is getting a high majority of the Catholic vote. But it's Santorum's good looks and energy that he brings to the primaries that are catching the women's eyes. His stand on abortion won't please all of the women, but on balance he doesn't hurt himself with women voters and they like his approach. The fact that he is only 48 doesn't hurt, either.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/01/04/why-santorum-appeals-to-women-and-evangelicals/#ixzz1lu5Zy6RX
Why aren't women gravitating to a very wise man, Ron Paul who is age 76? It may be his looks and his age. I gave women a big compliment for brainpower early in this article. But in voting for the other candidates, and not for Ron Paul, they are missing the point. The election isn't about youth or good looks, it's all about which candidate can deliver on his promises and which candidate has a platform that can meet the current monetary challenges to this country--challenges that will soon topple not just the American government and its prosperity, but its ability to exist as a sovereign nation. Ron Paul has all of the answers.Ron Paul has the experience, knowledge, and ability to lead the US through this crisis. They others are merely posturing. Read about his 50 elements or virtues we must install in our thinking and actions in my $2.99 ebook at Barnes or Amazon, Patriot Call of Ron Paul, a must read for all American voters--particularly women and young people. http://bit.ly/tjGsUc
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