Why aren’t the Democrats discussing the campus sexual assault ‘epidemic’?

By Ashe Schow

Published April 14, 2016 4:01am ET

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Why aren’t the Democrats discussing the campus sexual assault ‘epidemic’? — The facts are that this is not an epidemic. To be sure, sometimes rapes occur on college campuses, and that is horrible, but they are (thankfully) relatively rare. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) | Steven Senne

We’re told campus sexual assault is a massive problem across the country. We’re told that 1 in 5 women will be sexually assaulted while they’re in college. And we’re told we need to enact draconian policies right now in order to stop the epidemic.

So why then, if our country is facing a rape epidemic on par with war-torn Congo, aren’t the presidential candidates being asked about how they would solve the problem?

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