GOP Deploying Army Of Volunteers To Court Women Voters

Margaret Williamson, right, of Ellijay Ga., right, and Charlene McGowan, of Roswell, Ga., left, stand for the Pledge of Allegiance at a county women's group meeting before former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican v... Margaret Williamson, right, of Ellijay Ga., right, and Charlene McGowan, of Roswell, Ga., left, stand for the Pledge of Allegiance at a county women's group meeting before former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin makes a surprise appearance to campaign for Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Karen Handel, Thursday, April 3, 2014, in Union City, Ga. Palin is riding to the defense of the only Republican woman in the nomination fight for Georgia's open Senate seat, hitting back against GOP rival David Perdue's apparent dismissal of Karen Handel's high school education. (AP Photo/David Goldman) MORE LESS
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Signaling that the Republican Party is getting serious about wooing women, the Washington Post reported Monday that the Republican National Committee is planning to recruit an army of volunteers who will court young female voters in Democratic-leaning suburban areas.

The co-chair of the RNC, Sharon Day, is slated to launch the “14 in ’14” program Monday in West Virginia, according to the Post, aiming to “sign up women who will commit 30 minutes per week in the 14 weeks before the election, making calls, recruiting other women, identifying voters and getting people to the polls.”

President Barack Obama carried female voters in 2012 — unmarried women in particular — and winning over that voting bloc could tip tough mid-term elections in the GOP’s favor.

“Women are a very important part of the electorate and the RNC is very serious about engaging,” Day told the Post. “The Democrats have relied on desperate attacks and we are going to aggressively work to correct the record and build relationships with women voters.”

Democrats tried to paint Republicans as indifferent to women’s struggles last week when the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would have made it easier for women to sue for gender discrimination in wages, came up for a vote. Senate Republicans voted unanimously to block debate on the legislation and countered the Democrats’ offensive by highlighting a study that showed female staffers in the White House earn 88 cents for every dollar their male counterparts earn.

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  1. Avatar for jsfox jsfox says:

    How do you court young female voters being against abortion, being against health insurance, being against pay check fairness. Actually how do you court voters of any gender or age by being against everything and for nothing. Oh wait I know, you lie to them. . . again.

  2. Breathless media accounts of various GOP self-resurrection methods indict both the lazy, directionless media and the aged, crumbling remains of the once grand old party

  3. The desperation of the modern GOP is astounding. You ‘court’ voters by adopting policies that benefit said voter. You don’t put on a dog and pony show and then turn around and block paycheck fairness, access to safe health care and equal rights.

    The GOP is dying, and no amount of ‘outreach’ is going to revive it unless it radically changes its base values.

  4. Well firstly the GOP is gonna have to dress up their image and muzzle a few of their more “eloquent” members and begin speaking in rational voices. Then they need to actually get with the times. Of course they can do none of these things. It’s a hopeless “change” they are looking lor.

  5. Avatar for jep07 jep07 says:

    If they expect to send that room full of old perfume and cake makeup out onto the streets to recruit independent-minded women, they are fooling themselves (again, ad infinitum.)

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