article_snippet.sent: This is all fine and good (and predictable) if you acknowledge that the proportion of women who vote has exceeded the proportion of men who vote in every presidential election since 1980.
article_snippet.sent: Clinton can simply look back to the most recent elections to see that overplaying to one half of the eligible-voting population failed spectacularly all over the country, in red and blue states, when the best strategy was employed by both male and female candidates.
article_snippet.sent: As I've previously written, the most recent elections saw the death of a political meme: the "war on women.
article_snippet.sent: Granted, that's not because Republicans convinced the country that Republicans were the party of women.
article_snippet.sent: But it is noteworthy that Democrats who overtly pandered to women at the expense of real issues (and men) crashed and burned.
article_snippet.sent: But while Democrats were screaming about the Republicans' "war on women," few in the media acknowledged that Democrats' deficit among men was actually greater than the Republicans' deficit among women.
article_snippet.sent: Exit polls in 2014 showed that men voted for Republicans over Democrats by a 16-point margin, and women voted for Democrats by only a four-point margin.
article_snippet.sent: Regardless of whom Republicans run for president, Hillary Clinton will most likely get the women vote.
highlights_snippet.sent: In 2014 election, overplaying to one gender failed -- particularly with "war on women" 