Moderate women voters who are undecided on their choice for president are angry at the male-dominated Congress and the GOP social conservative agenda, according to focus group research from the liberal Emily’s List, which helps Democratic women candidates.
“They do not–do not–support this social conservative Republican agenda and it is going to be our job to make sure every woman in this country knows what the Republican agenda is about that’s really against them,” said Emily’s List President Stephanie Schriock.
It might work: When a critical portrayal of the GOP agenda was offered, said focus group coordinator and pollster Lisa Grove, the women backed Democrats.
The undecided independent women polled in Massachusetts, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Nevada and Wisconsin, were also eager for more female House and Senate members. Asked for images of Washington, many emailed in pictures of aging white men.
Grove said that the qualities the women want in candidates had a “distinctly feminine bent,” using words such as “listener,” “nurturing,” “smaller egos,” and “show our children it’s not just a man’s world.”
