With Rick Santorum finally pulling out of the Presidential race and an almost guaranteed Romney spot on the GOP ballot, Mitt has some work to do if he wants any hope of beating President Obama in November. While many conservatives are backing Romney only as a means to remove Obama from the White House, he is starting to work to gain popularity among independents and women. Past Romney policies have come across some voters as hurtful to women and his lack of a solid stance on the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (makes it easier for women to sue in equal pay cases) have many questioning if he could be a quality President. The Romney campaign has responded by declaring that it's in favor of pay equity (The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act is opposed by many conservatives) and has focused on how women have actually suffered under the Obama administration. Romney's advisors argue that women are the voter group most outraged by the failures of the Obama Administration on the economy. This should be an interesting arguement, but it doesn't look to good for the Romney campaign currently. It seems like it's going to be a tough job to convince the people he angered with issues like contraception and Planned Parenthood. Plus he could see himself angering his conservative followers with his fuzzy view on pay equity.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/12/us/politics/romney-taking-steps-to-narrow-his-gender-gap.html?_r=1&ref=politics#
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Great title...Romney certainly has needs that yet to be fulfilled before the presidential election in November. He definitely has some issues that must be resolved in order to gain more support that he needs and it may be difficult to do so.
This is interesting because we are talking about this same issue in the Political party’s blog. Mitt is rally the support of woman on the bases that the Obama office has severely hindered the ability for woman to succeed. At this stage in the election process all party members are unanimously casting their votes in favor of their party’s candidate. The only votes that seem to be up for grabs are independents and swing voters which seem to be woman and young voters. The questions is can President Obama gain woman’s vote? With Romney focusing so heavily on Woman’s vote and bashing the Obama office I suggest that because the American youth tends to be very liberal the Obama campaign should focus heavily on our vote. The tracks are laid for him to sweep the nations and gain support of college students and young professionals.
I agree that Romney definitely needs to work on getting the Independent votes, but I think it will be harder than he thinks because of where he stands on core women's issues. I also agree that younger voters tend to be more liberal so Obama should focus on young voters and women. My personal belief is that not many women who aren't members of the republican party will vote for Romney I even know some that women and men who are Republicans who aren't.
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