Thursday, November 8, 2012

Exit polling data suggests breakdown of the family favors the rise of liberal politics

by Christine Dhanagom

November 7, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - As the dust settles around last night’s election, the conventional wisdom is that Obama claimed the nation’s female vote. Some analysts, however, are pointing out that marital status appears to have been a more significant factor in the voting booth than gender.

According to polling data released by MSNBC, Obama carried the majority of the female vote over-all, at 55%. However, of the married women polled, 53% voted for Romney and 46% for Obama. In contrast, unmarried women favored Obama over Romney by a huge margin of 67% to 31%.

According to Brad Wilcox, Director of the National Marriage Project and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, the data suggests that the President’s message resonates specifically with those women living the consequences of family breakdown.

“Single mothers are more likely to depend on a generous welfare state and therefore to identify with the expansive governmental vision of the Democratic Party,” Wilcox told LifeSiteNews. “By contrast, married mothers are less likely to depend on the welfare state and therefore to identify with the limited government philosophy of the Republican Party.”

He added: “Married women are more likely to have a pro-life worldview, and unmarried women are more likely to have a pro-choice worldview.”

Wilcox’s analysis is consistent with a candid strategy memo released by the liberal-leaning Greenberg Quinlan Rosser research firm just before the 2008 election that landed Obama the Presidency.

“Unmarried women represent one of the most reliable Democratic cohorts in the electorate,” the memo read.

The memo claimed that what this demographic wanted most was “health care that can never be taken away from them,” noting that this priority was unsurprising given the “economic insecurity” and lack of a “real support network” faced by single women.

In comments to US News just before Tuesday’s election, Page Gardner, Director of the Women’s Voices Women Vote Action Fund, projected that the “marriage gap” in voting preference had grown.

“Support for Obama by young, single, female voters is driven in part by the Democrats’ focus on women’s health issues,” she said.

The Obama campaign has been aggressive in emphasizing the President’s stance in favor of abortion, as well as state and employer-funded contraception.

The campaign released five separate ads attacking Mitt Romney’s stance on abortion, and attempting to paint the Republican candidate as a pro-life extremist. Romney responded to the attacks with an ad that soft-peddled his stance.

Obama’s focus on the issue of free birth control has been perhaps even more fanatic, in some cases prompting ridicule from his opponents.

As part of a serious of e-cards for women posted on the campaign website, a card from a daughter to a mother claimed that the girl would have to pay $18,000 for birth control access over the course of her lifetime if the Affordable Care Act was repealed. Commentators quickly pointed out that since many stores provided month-long supplies of birth control pills for under $10, it would take a woman over 100 years to burn $18,000 on birth control.

More recently, the campaign released a controversial ad in which a young woman talks about her experience voting for Obama as if it was her first time having sex.

“Your first time shouldn’t be with just anybody. You want to do it with a great guy,” she says. “Somebody who really cares about and understands women. A guy who cares about whether you get health insurance, and specifically whether you get birth control.”

5 comments:

  1. AND do you know what caused the breakdown of the family ??? Search POPE LEO XIII. And look at the change in the world since then. Materialism did it. It took fathers out of the home, manufacturing materialism and then the mother and evil (mafia) got into the unions-and still is and it escalated much worse since then.
    Too many are living "in the world, for the world"!
    AND our shepherds let us down. Why didn't the Popes do as the BVM asked at Fatima?? They too are living in the world, for the world, certainly not for God.!!!!
    PLEASE GOD HELP US!

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  2. I think Anonymous (10:37AM) makes a solid point mentioning Pope Leo XIII, as he did indeed discuss the demise of the family and pointed quite accurately at the slippery slope from marriage being considered a mere civil contract which could be dissolved to the weakening of the family structure.

    It is indeed sad to see how the image of the human person has been so tarnished that ideas and concepts that promote promiscuity are championed. Further, it is tragic when innocent human life becomes disposable for the convenience of one's temporal existence. Consequently, it is tragic that procreative side of sexual intercourse is being denied for what would be deemed lustful tendencies, which are ultimately self-serving and never fully self-giving.

    Let us pray that these plagues upon society be lifted and always be active participants in battling the culture of death and spreading the Gospel, especially within our own families.

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  3. Modern family being push on us. Children are treated like a desease. As if God made a mistake in allowing the world to prolifit it self. Humankind is declining because of that. Young single mother's are suffering because of liberal values and they want that disaster to continue. Young couples want animals to care for instead babies because they say God does not want them to bring a baby into such a depraved world. Who do they think is going to take over when we are gone. What a mess! No one to spread the Gospel of the Lord. The almighty will have to do it Himself. Watch out!

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