Kamala Harris is doing better in the polls than Joe Biden was. No surprise there.
But that’s not just because he’s a dementia patient and she’s not. There’s more to it than that. In the political world, it is often assumed that — all things being equal — a female candidate has an advantage of a couple points over a male candidate.
There are a lot of reasons for this, and of course, all things are never equal, so it’s not that simple. If it were, both parties would make sure to only nominate women — in swing jurisdictions at least. But even so, Kamala Harris is sure to have some durable hold over some percentage of the electorate — how big a hold and over how big a subset being unknown — just because she’s a woman.
This isn’t necessarily unfair, on its own. It’s just the way it is. Republicans can run female candidates just as easily as Democrats can. The fact that Republicans have plenty of absolutely terrific female governors and senators, from governors Kim Reynolds, Kristi Noem, and Sarah Sanders to senators Marsha Blackburn, Katie Britt, and Joni Ernst, shows that this doesn’t have to be a specific advantage for one party or the other.
However, there is one aspect of “the sex question” that is well worth diving into: the perception driven home by the mainstream media, the pop culture, and the Democrat side of the aisle, that Kamala Harris, and all female Democrat candidates, are automatically better choices for female voters — “for women’s issues.”
Now, no male candidate of either party ever campaigns as being better “for men’s issues.” It never happens. But female Democrats campaign for office all the time, claiming that they are the clear choice “for women’s issues.”
It is fair, therefore, to ask the question: what are these “women’s issues” they speak of?
Accuse them of just using the term as cover for the abortion issue, and they will tell you that No, they’re not talking about abortion alone; they’re talking about health insurance and women’s rights and employment law too.
But what specific issue about health insurance is that? They want insurance plans to be forced to cover abortions. What women’s rights are they talking about? The perceived right to have an abortion. What employment law issue are they talking about? The ability of a hospital or clinic to force its healthcare employee, against his or her will, to perform or assist with an abortion.
Sometimes you have to drill down a couple of layers to get this honest answer, but in the end, it is undeniable: To the modern Democrat campaign — not to the voters, necessarily, but to the candidates — the only “women’s issues” are about abortion.
So, the voter needs to ask a question: aren’t any other issues also women’s issues? And if so, where do the candidates stand on them?
For example:
The Tales of Little Pavel), his political satires on the Biden-Harris years (Evening Soup with Basement Joe, Volumes I, II, and III), and his brand new nonfiction book on the 2024 election, Current Events and the Issues of Our Age, all available in eBook or paperback, only on Amazon.
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