Paul's gender gap weakness: what solution?

[Liberty1789]

Difference between female and male votes in % in Nevada (CNN Poll)

Gingrich +2%
Romney +4%
Santorum +3%
Paul -9%


Isn't there a rational way to improve the Campaign on this. What is it?

The best angle that I can find is:

Paul is the only candidate going to save your family from the Big Government's financial collapse.

Which has the great benefit of being very closed to:

Paul is the only candidate going to save your pension from the Big Government's financial collapse.

 

[A. Havnes]

I have a novel solution: stop pandering to the collective and talk with people as individuals, regardless of age, sex, religion, etc. Find out what issues are important to them and solve the problem. Maybe make a few ads with Carol in them or something.

Trying to get this in before the replies of, "It's hopeless. Women are biologically manufactured to be thorns in the side of liberty-loving men," and, "Women can't think logically because estrogen in a brain killer. We therefore have to pander to their emotions, or talk to your gf about RP because women will just follow their man," and, "It's because women have this bizarre man-complex and just want to run into the arms of the most abusive one, thus Gingrich/Romney/etc.."

 

[goldpants]

RP may need to cheat on Carol with a good looking woman 30 years his junior. Or he may want to botox his face like the others. Or get some of that spray on tan that seems popular.

A couple of more serious thoughts. The official campaign needs a couple of women surrogates, whether they are business women or elected officials or family members I think that could help a bit. In states where the primaries/caucuses are more anti-wars and open to independents and better yet open to dems, run an ad with wives of the troops. The wives of the troops asking for their return, asking for their family to be re-intact, show children, etc. it may be seen as pandering but it would be powerful. Other than that husbands and boyfriends need to do a better job of motivating their significant others to vote and campaign.

 

[LisaNY]

He isn't doing anything wrong. There is simply no reasonable explanation for these numbers.

 

[RonPaul101.com]

He should make more appearances on daytime TV talk shows, reasonable ones though... Regis and Kelly, Good Morning America, The View. If you add up all these shows collectively and the time that I have spent viewing them it wouldn't even equal one complete show.

However, my wife watches these, her friends do, her mother does, etc.

 

[CaptUSA]

If you want to increase access to women, I believe there are ways you can do that.

If you think tailoring the message of liberty to a stereotype of what "women" want, I think you're missing the point. I agree with A. Havnes.

 

[metadjinn]

It's pretty simple actually. Ron Paul gets a big chunk of his support from people under 30, and most women under 30 are quite liberal and are not voting in a Republican primary. Most Republican voters under 30 are male. A less serious problem is that some of the women vote is going to Romney because he's the best looking candidate left. This is a little sexist and I don't think it has a huge impact but I do believe it has a small, significant one. There's really nothing you can do about either of these problems.

 

[doctorfunk]

My wife flat out said there is no way she'd vote for Ron Paul because he doesn't look like a president. She likes Romney because she wants to be on the "winning side" and he's the best looking. Treat people as individuals, don't pander, and know that there will likely be a gender gap. Winning a state should help at least those that want to vote for the person they think has the best chance to win.

 

[rockandrollsouls]

Men are logical. Women are emotional. Men think his voting record makes sense.

 

[sailingaway]

Please search this topic, there are a number of threads on it and I have responded in a bunch of them.

 

[sailingaway]

Men are logical. Women are emotional. Men think his voting record makes sense.

oh, now there is an attitude designed to win over women.

 

[ZentaiKitty]

oh, now there is an attitude designed to win over women.

hehehe - So true ;-)

Personally, as a woman, I like Ron Paul a lot. He's not the 2nd coming of Andrew Jackson or anything, but he is far and away the best candidate on offer, to me. When talking with friends who are not decidedely pro-Paul about him, a couple of big things that seem to get in the way of enthusiasm are:

1. They think he is actually isolationist - like he intends to essentially cut the US off from the rest of the world or something - Providing information on non-interventionism usually clears this up.

2. He is pro-life and they think this means he'll try to push for pro-life laws being put in place. This is particularly a concern with the ladies. Discussing what he intends to do about it (work for the repeal Roe v Wade and have life defined as beginning at conception nationally) and making clear what he will not do (nationally outlaw abortion or much of anything beyond the aforementioned bits) has some effect. What seems to really be interesting to people is his attempts to have the executive order issued by Obama to outlaw abortion service funding via the health care bill withdrawn. It demonstrates his adherence to Constitutional principle on this issue, above and beyond his own personal feelings.

On the looks side of things, it seems like the biggest things that bother people are his suits, which often appear to be a couple sizes too big, kinda thrift rackish looking, and his posture, which is often stooped. Perhaps if he improved those a bit, he would look more "presidential." However, since we have had some Presidents who were simply extraordinarily ugly, regularly publicly ill-tempered, and even badly dressed, perhaps that would be a mislabeling... Maybe more "TV friendly presidential?"

I'm not sure what the campaign to do to make clear the differences mentioned more than they already have, particularly with the media seeming to do its damndest to paint him with an unflattering brush, but doing so might be helpful with a wide swath of the electorate. Changing Paul's style and presentation much would seem disingenious, perhaps, at this point. Perhaps picking a VP who balances out Paul's qualities - is staunch on liberty, but presents well, and maybe is pro-choice would be a good way to go?

- ZK

 

[Highstreet]

He should make more appearances on daytime TV talk shows, reasonable ones though... Regis and Kelly, Good Morning America, The View. If you add up all these shows collectively and the time that I have spent viewing them it wouldn't even equal one complete show.

However, my wife watches these, her friends do, her mother does, etc.

^^this

And maybe ads with Carol to help personalize Paul.

 

[SaulPaulinsky]

My wife flat out said there is no way she'd vote for Ron Paul because he doesn't look like a president. She likes Romney because she wants to be on the "winning side" and he's the best looking.

So when's the divorce?