Can the GOP ever win the women vote?

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Didn't they almost win it in '04?

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Obama did but Clinton, I think no. Reagan and Bush 88 lost the female vote from study's I've read on female voting patterns.

Clinton won the male vote in '92 but not '96 (Dole +1). Republicans won female voters in all three Reagan-era elections, but very narrowly in '80 and '88.

http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/elections/presidential/presidential_election.html

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IIRC Ford won the female vote in 76, while Carter won the male vote.

DarthNader says otherwise. Who knows?

I've actually heard the same thing RE: Ford, but both the Roper link and this one have Carter getting the same percentage with both genders. In any case, '80 appears to mark the start of the present-day "gender gap".