{"id":2206285,"date":"2024-03-26T08:04:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T12:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-can-win-over-unmarried-women-by-exposing-democrats-abortion-extremism\/"},"modified":"2024-03-26T08:10:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T12:10:11","slug":"republicans-can-win-over-unmarried-women-by-exposing-democrats-abortion-extremism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-can-win-over-unmarried-women-by-exposing-democrats-abortion-extremism\/","title":{"rendered":"How Republicans Can Appeal to Single Women By Highlighting Democrats&#8217; Extreme Stance on Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frepublicans-can-win-over-unmarried-women-by-exposing-democrats-abortion-extremism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2206285&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The\u2062 article discusses how \u200cRepublicans can engage unmarried women voters, \u200bwho tend to \u200clean towards \u2064the \u2064Democratic Party. By highlighting the Democrats&#8217; extreme stance on \u200babortion, Republicans have the opportunity to attract support\u200d from this \u2064demographic. Research shows that targeted messaging on\u2063 abortion\u200c issues can sway unmarried women voters towards the Republican Party. The article delves into strategies for Republicans to reach out \u2062to\u200d unmarried women voters, traditionally aligned with the Democratic Party. By emphasizing \u200cthe Democrats&#8217; position on abortion, Republicans can potentially sway support from\u200c this \u2062demographic.\u2064 Studies indicate\u2062 that \u2064tailored messaging regarding abortion can \u2063influence unmarried women voters to lean towards the \u2064Republican Party.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>Republicans have a serious problem in 2024: unmarried women. Republicans also have a major opportunity: unmarried women.<\/p>\n<p>Unmarried women are one of the most Democratic-voting demographics in U.S. politics, voting more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/election\/2022\/exit-polls\/national-results\/house\/0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">two-to-one<\/a> for Democratic House candidates (68\u201331 percent) in 2022. A majority of married men, unmarried men, and married women, in contrast, voted Republican.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-683151378\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b20b76d8b0264e20376b924f137bcb1b fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b20b76d8b0264e20376b924f137bcb1b\"><\/div>\n<p>But when a party loses a large percentage of a demographic group, there is potential for large gains. That is particularly true when that chunk of voters is heavily courted by one party and largely ignored by the other. Fox News host <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/women-marry-settle-down-stop-005849281.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jesse Watters<\/a> might be right that \u201csingle women \u2026 have been captured by Democrats,\u201d but Republicans don\u2019t \u201cneed these ladies to get married\u201d as Watters suggests. They just need to talk to them.<\/p>\n<p>We conducted randomized-controlled trials across seven states in 2022, testing the same core messages attacking Democratic Senate candidates for the Susan B. Anthony List (SBA) and found the messages boosted Republican support, on average, about 1.5 points. But these messages worked <em>best<\/em> with <em>unmarried women<\/em>, who shifted +3.5 points toward the Republican. Unmarried women with no college degree moved +4.1 points toward the Republican. And unmarried, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-gerardi-a-father-looks-at-mothers-day\/\" title=\"John Gerardi: A Father Looks At Mother\u2019s Day\">lower-income women<\/a> with no college degree moved +5.8 points toward the Republican.<\/p>\n<p>Unmarried women are in the market for information, and they respond when they get persuasive messaging \u2014 even, perhaps especially, when the topic is abortion. You see, the messages we tested attacked Democrat candidates for their extreme positions on abortion.<\/p>\n<p>In hindsight, maybe it shouldn\u2019t be so surprising. After all, unmarried women are a prime target of Democrat efforts, likely bombarded with pro-abortion messaging that is unrelentingly negative toward Republicans. Expose them to new information about a Democrat candidate\u2019s support for unfettered abortion, and the Republican might not seem quite as bad in comparison.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-39e82f03204a0b1aca0bee351bb9ffb9 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-39e82f03204a0b1aca0bee351bb9ffb9\"><\/div>\n<p>Following the leak of the <em>Dobbs v. Jackson<\/em> decision, the abortion issue took center stage in American politics. Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/12\/19\/dobbs-2022-election-abortion-00074426\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">spent<\/a> a tremendous amount of money in 2022 \u2014 nearly $358 million \u2014 airing 27 percent of their ads on pro-abortion messaging to keep abortion top of mind for voters and paint Republican candidates as radical and out of touch on the issue. Meanwhile, Republicans largely abandoned the topic, spending just $37 million and airing only 5 percent of their ads on abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats believe attacking Republicans on abortion helps them win elections. And many campaign professionals and pundits on both sides agree. They credit the abortion issue for a much better-than-expected turnout for Democrats in the 2022 midterm election, despite a flailing economy, high inflation, and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-triumph-of-economic-ignorance\/\" title=\"The Triumph of Economic Ignorance\">deeply unpopular president<\/a>. And this year Democrats plan a repeat, making the abortion issue central in the 2024 elections.<\/p>\n<p>But the fundamental lesson here is that Republicans must go on offense to counter Democrat attacks on Republicans over the question of abortion. And targeting demographics with which Republicans have historically struggled \u2014 like unmarried women \u2014 shows great potential for winning new votes.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, identifying the right messages to persuade unmarried women voters, as we did in the last election cycle, is just the first step. There\u2019s a reason Democrats have maintained this voting bloc so securely. They\u2019ve invested seriously in reaching them with their messaging.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c3cde74c4fd1030253529f6f943290a8 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c3cde74c4fd1030253529f6f943290a8\"><\/div>\n<p>For three decades now, Democrats have leaned heavily on the use of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-most-objective-evidence-on-covid-vaccines\/\" title=\"The Most Objective Evidence on COVID Vaccines\">randomized controlled trials<\/a> and have then refined and modified this data to not only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nolte-heres-why-cnn-continues-to-release-hoax-polls\/\" title=\"Nolte: Here's Why CNN Continues to Release Hoax Polls\">change public opinion<\/a> but to develop consistent voter behavior.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why our work didn\u2019t end with the message trials alone. For each state, we utilized machine learning to predict the likely effects and identify the very best voters statewide to target for a persuasion campaign. We ran two RCTs during the 2022 elections to estimate the effects of the actual SBA persuasion campaign in the field and found that the effort resulted in a net vote shift of +6.5 and +7.1 points toward the Republican in North Carolina and Wisconsin respectively. Without the message testing combined with precise targeting, these effects would likely have been close to zero.<\/p>\n<p>But this is just the beginning. Democrats have prioritized the issue of abortion, which means that Republicans can\u2019t just shrug their shoulders and hope for the best. We know that giving voters new information works but only if you devote enough resources to make the fight a fair one.<\/p>\n<p>If Republicans want to win on policy and win elections, they need to invest in finding the messages that work, the right voters to target, and the outreach to make it a success.<\/p>\n<p>Winning new voters means finding those not already on our side, but susceptible to new information. And a serious investment in reaching and engaging with those voters.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-faf789fc37dd8bd751d01d79d69f53cf fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-faf789fc37dd8bd751d01d79d69f53cf\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the upcoming 2024 election, Republicans face a significant challenge with unmarried women, a demographic that tends to lean heavily Democratic. However, this also presents a notable opportunity for Republicans to garner support among this group. In 2022, unmarried women overwhelmingly favored Democratic House candidates, contrasting with the voting patterns of married individuals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3003,"featured_media":2206286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/52223061831_4813dba5c1_k.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2206285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/52223061831_4813dba5c1_k.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3003"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2206285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2206286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2206285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2206285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2206285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}