RNC Women

More and more evidence is emerging that shows that the engine that drove Republicans to an historic victory last Tuesday was the shift of women voters back to Republican candidates compared to results in 2008 and 2006. 

A new story in the L.A. Times today outlines the shift in both married and unmarried women to GOP candidates in 2010 election cycle.  According to the story, House Democrats won just 48% of the women’s vote, down from 55% two years ago.  House Republicans, on the other hand, won 49% of the women’s vote. 

This shift among female voters was driven largely by a dramatic change in the way that married women cast their ballots.  The L.A. Times reports that half of all white, unmarried women voted Republican in 2010, up significantly from 39% in the two previous election cycles.  Overall, married women supported GOP candidates by 54%, a sizable jump from previous years. 

The reasons for this shift are clear.  Women make the buying decisions in more than 75 percent of American households.  These women rejected the policies of the Pelosi Congress that stimulated more debt than job growth and the efforts by the Obama White House to allow the Bush tax cuts to expire just when the American people most need tax relief. 

The Democrats’ takeover of health care also drove women to Republican candidates, as women on average make about 80 percent of health care decisions for their families.  ObamaCare will take many of these decisions away from families and doctors and put federal bureaucrats in charge of decisions that ought to be made at the kitchen table. 

The failed policies of the Pelosi Congress and the Obama White House helped drive the surge in women voters behind Republican candidates, and that surge is what powered the Republican takeover of the U.S. House.