Turning The Ballot Box Against Republicans

No one cares if you believe it or not, it has, and is, going to be exposed. Trump wont do it, Barr and Durham will.

Oh oh!
https://pjmedia.com/trending/cnn-poll-overwhelming-majority-want-investigation-into-obama-doj-spying-of-trump/

There might be reason why you post a month-old report.

CNN report

Full poll results (conducted from April 25 to April 28, 2019 among a sample of 1,007 respondents)

Interesting. 48% of the respondents believe Trump committed obstruction of justice. 45% think he did not. 58% think we should investigate obstruction but sadly 69% think we should investigate the origins of the Russian investigation.

Truly if it is done right, it would be interesting to see how it all came about. I know Obama wasn't involved in no conspiracy to deep state trump. It's so lame to suggest it and even sadder the prez and his side kick managed to convince people of this stupid conspiracy theory.

How do you know that? It looks like he is in it up to his pencil neck. Now we cannot exonerate Obama, he will be guilty until proven innocent. The same standards Trump is held to. Or equal reverse justice does not apply?

CNN wont take another poll because the numbers in Trumps favor have grown. But I could be wrong, ever happen to you?

Why aren't there more Republican women in Congress?

Malliga Och and Shauna Shames

The 116th Congress — sworn in Thursday — is the most diverse in U.S. history: 126 women took office, including 43 women of color. Yet, as many have noted, this new diversity is confined to one side of the aisle.

The number of Republican women in Congress is actually dropping from 23 to 13. Only one out of 36 freshman female representatives is a Republican. So while 2018 certainly was the Year of the Woman, Republican women are watching from the sidelines.

Whether you are progressive or conservative, this is bad news. As political scientists, we strongly believe that both democracy and feminism work best when there is a critical mass of women in each major political party. A democracy should reflect the diversity of its society. Considering that women make up over half of the U.S. population but only 23 percent of Congress, American democracy already underrepresents women. For Republican women, the mismatch is even more pronounced.

Nearly half of all women in this country regularly vote for Republican candidates. For example, Donald Trump won 41 percent of the female vote in 2016 and Mitt Romney won 44 percent in 2012. Yet the overall numbers of Republican women candidates and elected women has stagnated at around 15 percent for the past two decades and is now declining.

This is important for many reasons.

For one, Republican women, both as voters and legislators, often have different policy views and priorities than their male counterparts have. Elected Republican women have provided crucial voices in setting policy. For example, Republican women were vocal in their support to reauthorize the 1993 Violence Against Women Act last year. Republican women also have been able to speak about womanhood in a language that fellow conservative lawmakers could relate to. Further, GOP women have forged bipartisan compromises in the past few decades with Democratic women.

More generally, research has shown that women on both sides of the aisle provide excellent constituency service and are more effective lawmakers than men. In other words, it is a problem for all of us from Republican districts — and for democracy more generally — if women are mostly concentrated in one party.

Higher hurdles for GOP women
So what can be done?

Most important, we should dispel the myth that the decline of women in the GOP is a Republican “war on women” with the GOP actively trying to keep women out of the party. Instead, our research shows that Republican women face greater barriers to entry compared with either Democratic women or Republican men.

First, Republican women have more limited access than Republican men to campaign dollars at the crucial primary stage when fundraising numbers signal candidate viability.

Both in individual donations and political action committee, or PAC, giving, the picture looks bleak for Republican women. In 2018, Republican women raised about $19 million from women donors. Compare that to $159 million Democratic female candidates raised from women.

One of the biggest problems for Republican women is that they do not have access to an established and well-funded PAC network. While Democrats have EMILY’s List, which supports pro-choice Democratic women as candidates, and many more well-funded progressive women’s PACs, conservative women’s PACs are fragmented and underfunded. One conservative counterpart to EMILY’s List is the Susan B. Anthony List, which supports pro-life candidates of both sexes. In 2018, EMILY’s List spent almost $69 million in support of Democratic pro-choice women. In contrast, the SBA List spent around $799,000 in support of pro-life candidates including Democratic and Republican men.

In addition to limited funds, conservative women PACs lack visibility and viability. The Wish List, supporting pro-choice Republican women, faltered within 10 years and ShePAC within two years. Research by political scientists Rosalyn Cooperman and Melody Crowder-Meyer show that few GOP donors have heard of these efforts. Low visibility and limited funds mean that an endorsement of such PACs carries little weight compared with the endorsement of EMILY’s List, which is widely seen as a signal of viability and leads to an influx of donations from other sources.

Other efforts to increase the number of Republican women such as the National Republican Congressional Committee’s Project GROW — which stands for Growing Republican Opportunities for Women — also have fallen short. As the first female head of recruitment for the National Republican Congressional Committee, New York Rep. Elise Stefanik recruited more than 100 women to run for the Republican Party. Only one of them won office.

Second, Republican women have a pipeline problem. Typically, candidates first run for local or state office before making a run for Congress. Yet as of 2018, only 37.6 percent of all female state legislators across the U.S. are Republican. Fewer Republican women in lower offices means that fewer women will run for Congress. But that lack of a good bench is not due to a lack of ambition. Political scientist Abbie Erler of Kenyon College shows that Republican women are as ambitious as Democratic women. Instead, Republican women tend to live in states where opportunity structures are limited, meaning congressional delegations are small and turnover is low.

Third, Republicans reject “identity politics.” As political scientist Cathy Wineinger of Western Washington University shows, the Republican Party traditionally emphasizes individualism, social conservatism, a free-market economy and national security. The GOP dismisses group-based representational claims about identity or diversity, which the Democratic Party embraces. This ideological bent hampers internal discussion of why electing women is important and makes it harder to establish a positive mechanism to address the lack of women in the party.

This is why Stefanik’s push for a new conservative women’s PAC is so important. She correctly identified the most important step to getting more women elected: early financial and logistical support in primaries. Without an entity that provides training, access to experienced campaign staff and fundraising, the GOP will never remedy its women deficit.

In the long run, being the party of white men is a losing demographic strategy for Republicans. More important, democracy depends on the debate of multiple viewpoints by diverse people. We do not mean to suggest that there must be perfect numerical equality at all times, but inequities should rotate, not stagnate. For legitimate representative governance, each party needs to contain a strong core of elected women. The American government and governing system would be better with more women on each side of the aisle.

Who cares? If you hate Republicans, you hate Republican women, or you would be sexist.

Nope. Trump is holding steady underwater. Release of Mueller probe didn't give him a boost.

Could it be that they lose to DNC men? I've seen plenty of GOP women run in elections here in CO and other states. They seem to do just fine when running in the primaries but get beat in the general election by DNC men. The same can be said for POC in the GOP, they run but lose to white DNC candidates. Is that racist? Mia Love was a black Congress women from Utah, but she didn't get Woman Strong coverage from the MSM, she didn't have the correct message for them, she was in the wrong party to be important.

Why is it that the MSM ignores POC GOP politicians and continues to claim the GOP is racist?

Its because voters reject. the gop uber conservative platform
The message is the thhing. If you talk dreck you lose the election whether you are black or white or male or female..

Then what's the point about posting about women in politics? If it's about message, then the rest doesn't matter. The problem is that the left likes to make the other stuff important and message doesn't matter. What they are really asking is this, why aren't there more DNC women in politics, they don't care about GOP women. Thank you for agreeing that those types of articles are BS.

Thought you guys hated identity politics so called
Now here you are calling for them. Women and people of color know who is fighting for them and who is not.

Bingo.

I didn't call for anything, I was calling out the hypocrisy of the news article and the left. You and them don't have a concern for women in politics, you have a concern about left wing women in politics. I want good people elected, I don't care about their skin color or the sex.

Your problem is that the many good women and people ofcolor who run are Democrats because that is the rational party which looks ou for thhe interests and neds of women and people of color as the gop does not. It also looks after ythe good of all people as the gop does not. The gop does look after the needs of billionaires though.

That is one weak reply and it fails to explain the problems in liberal cities where the DNC has ruled for a couple of generations. Does Chicago get to blame the GOP when the GOP hasn't run Chicago in well over 50 years, and the entire state of IL is run by the DNC? You speak in platitudes that have no meaning expect to divide our nation along ID lines.

The GOP has been ruined by the religious right, just as the DNC has been ruined by the extreme leftists. I actually see the religious "right" as leftists, because they want to use govt power to enforce their views. The left right spectrum should be viewed as extreme govt control on the left and little to no govt control on the right side. Anarchy vs authoritarianism.

As i remember the far riight SCOTUS judges overturnedchiago's handgun restrictions and there are a lot of downstate gun shops ready to make a qui ck buck on chicagoans with a grudge

Maybe you should look into who actually commits those shootings in Chicago and where they take place, hint... it isn't the burbs. It's the South and West sides of Chicago... gang country. It's a who with the crimes, not a what.