Five Myths About the So Called 'Republican War on Women'
Democrats can’t run on their record, so they are lobbing false
claims on against the GOP to win the female vote..   In the 2010
midterm elections, the gender gap disappeared for the first time
since the Reagan era. More Republican women were elected to the
House than ever before, and four out of six current female
governors are Republicans. In 2010, Republicans won the women's
vote over Democrats by 49 percent to 48 percent, exit polls
showed. Ever since, the Democratic political strategy has been
to make female voters, who comprise more than half the
electorate, their No. 1 target. The stakes are high: Democrats
can't afford to lose the women's vote again if they expect to
keep the White House and the Senate. This fall, Republicans need
to pick up only four seats to take control of the Senate.  The
problem for Democrats is they can't run on their record: The
poverty rate among women is now the highest it's been in nearly
two decades; 5.2 million women