Thursday, November 08, 2012
Republicans' problem with women: Twice as many unmarried female voters supported Obama over Romney | Mail Online - The Republican party is suffering from a serious failure to attract the female vote, exit polls following the election released on Wednesday reveal. - Just 44 per cent of female voters supported Mitt Romney, while 55 per cent voted to re-elect Barack Obama - and with women making up 53 per cent of the electorate, those numbers were enough to play a significant role in keeping the GOP out of the White House. - Republicans fared particularly poorly among single women, 67 per cent of whom voted for Obama while just 31 per cent supported Romney.
Women less likely to be political outsiders now - CNN.com - What changed in this election was that women accumulated power in a calm and measured way, and began to look for the first time much less like outsiders to the political process.
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