Ex GOP congressman: Women and minorities are scared of us.

[Landslide Lyndon]

http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-congress/2012/11/exrep-tom-davis-women-minorities-scared-of-gop-149813.html

A pair of Republican centrists on Friday offered this blunt prognosis of their party after its electoral drubbing: Many women and minorities are simply frightened of the GOP.

“Some of the groups that would have agreed with us on a lot of issues, they don’t even look at us. We scare them,” said former Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.).

Davis appeared with retiring Rep. Steve LaTourette at the Capitol Hill Club Friday to discuss poll findings of Main Street Advocacy, a nonprofit managed by Davis. Their main message: partisans on both sides need to stop bickering so much and start compromising on issues like the fiscal cliff.

But both men said the GOP’s problem go beyond partisanship. Republicans, they argued, need to stop looking at voters as members of groups — whether it's women, African-Americans, Latinos or Asian-Americans — and just look at them as Americans.

“You don’t solve that [distrust] with one bill,” Davis said. “You have to pay a lot of attention.”

[Franzl]

They have reason to be.

[All Along The Watchtower]

Clearly a RINO. His opinion is irrelevant.

[minionofmidas]

There's a reason Tom Davis retired, from a seat his for many years longer but gone without him, at the age of 59.

[DemPGH]

When they oust a guy like Dick Lugar for a guy like Dick Mourdock, everybody has reason to be afraid of them.

[Vosem]

Women are very scared of the GOP. That's why 44% of women voted for Romney.

By the same logic, in 1984 America equated Walter Mondale with Freddy Krueger. Voting against someone != fright.

[Oakvale]

Women are very scared of the GOP. That's why 44% of women voted for Romney.

By the same logic, in 1984 America equated Walter Mondale with Freddy Krueger. Voting against someone != fright.

Women have good reason to be scared of the modern Republican Party.

1. There was a huge gender gap. Surely you recognize this. ~5% of blacks and ~20% of Hispanics voted for Romney too, that doesn't mean the demographics aren't still (rightfully) opposed to and scared of the Republican Party.

2. There were a bunch of Senate candidates saying awful things about rape, which might be symptomatic of something.

[Vosem]

Women have good reason to be scared of the modern Republican Party.

That's an opinion; we could argue this all day and never convince our opposite number.

1. There was a huge gender gap. Surely you recognize this. ~5% of blacks and ~20% of Hispanics voted for Romney too, that doesn't mean the demographics aren't still (rightfully) opposed to and scared of the Republican Party.

Yes; of course I recognize that there was a gender gap. Women voted for Obama, as did blacks and Hispanics. But I don't think women are scared of a party 9/20 women vote for. (Considering local data, I don't think Hispanics are scared of the GOP itself so much as the GOP keeps nominating people unpalatable to Hispanics; Hispanics can be quite swingy and in some statewide races have voted GOP). Blacks, on the other hand, you could argue are scared. Though I would argue 'disgusted' or 'offended' are better terms to use than 'scared'; nobody's scared of the GOP except crazy Internet people.

2. There were a bunch of Senate candidates saying awful things about rape, which might be symptomatic of something.

Not sure 2 is a bunch, but yeah that was just awful. But you must admit 'endemic' does not always equal 'common'.

[DC Al Fine]

Women are very scared of the GOP. That's why 44% of women voted for Romney.

By the same logic, in 1984 America equated Walter Mondale with Freddy Krueger. Voting against someone != fright.

Women have good reason to be scared of the modern Republican Party.

1. There was a huge gender gap. Surely you recognize this. ~5% of blacks and ~20% of Hispanics voted for Romney too, that doesn't mean the demographics aren't still (rightfully) opposed to and scared of the Republican Party.

2. There were a bunch of Senate candidates saying awful things about rape, which might be symptomatic of something.

It's not a gender gap so much as a marriage gap within women.



Married women vote Republican just like their husbands. Single men also vote Republican although not quite so much. The real gap is between married and unmarried women.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Not sure 2 is a bunch, but yeah that was just awful. But you must admit 'endemic' does not always equal 'common'.

Three. And maybe I'm forgeting some.

[Badger]

Women are very scared of the GOP. That's why 44% of women voted for Romney.

By the same logic, in 1984 America equated Walter Mondale with Freddy Krueger. Voting against someone != fright.

Women have good reason to be scared of the modern Republican Party.

1. There was a huge gender gap. Surely you recognize this. ~5% of blacks and ~20% of Hispanics voted for Romney too, that doesn't mean the demographics aren't still (rightfully) opposed to and scared of the Republican Party.

2. There were a bunch of Senate candidates saying awful things about rape, which might be symptomatic of something.

It's not a gender gap so much as a marriage gap within women.



Married women vote Republican just like their husbands. Single men also vote Republican although not quite so much. The real gap is between married and unmarried women.

I'm disappointed this near-all-encompassing graph left out white women. It was about a 50-50 split last time, so the numbers now would be certainly interesting.

[Rooney]

Tom Davis proves himself to be an attention whore who wants the Washington Post to say nice things about him just like every moderate Republican in history. There is truly no more whiny group of people than moderate Republicans. Thinking of them causes all good men to gag profusely. 

[John Dibble]

Married women vote Republican just like their husbands. Single men also vote Republican although not quite so much. The real gap is between married and unmarried women.

You sure you're reading that correctly? It says single white men voted for Romney at 50.6% (which is pretty much dead even) and that only 39.4% of single men as a whole voted Romney.

[DC Al Fine]

Married women vote Republican just like their husbands. Single men also vote Republican although not quite so much. The real gap is between married and unmarried women.

You sure you're reading that correctly? It says single white men voted for Romney at 50.6% (which is pretty much dead even) and that only 39.4% of single men as a whole voted Romney.

Read it right, just didn't type it right.

[minionofmidas]

Blacks, on the other hand, you could argue are scared. Though I would argue 'disgusted' or 'offended' are better terms to use than 'scared'; nobody's scared of the GOP except crazy Internet people.

Blacks, not to mention "real" Native Americans, are scared of Whites.

quoting from memory... "know that slightly scary feeling when you're alone in a Black neighborhood after dark? This is how I feel every minute in Seattle, man. This is how I feel in America."