Sooner or later, most, if not all, elections come down to issues that have divided voters for years on end now, that may or may not have anything to do with the general welfare of the country and its people as far as then current conditions were concerned. And this year, may be no different.
While polls show that men lean heavily Republican this year, Democrats and their backers are spending the campaign's last days spurring left-leaning and independent women to vote, by emphasizing abortion and other social issues.
The campaigns remain focused on the economy as dominant for both men and women, with Democrats losing support from many groups that strongly backed the party in 2008 and 2006. Nonetheless, although it's unclear if a push toward social issues can make up the Republicans advantage, Democratic campaigns are bombarding female voters with messages about social issues on the stump, in debates, television ads, targeted phone calls and direct mail.
In California, Senator Barbara Boxer says Republican Carly Fiorina's opposition to abortion would turn women into criminals, a contention the Fiorina campaign calls "outlandish." In Colorado, Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet accuses his GOP opponent, Ken Buck, of wanting to ban common forms of birth control. Mr. Buck says he has changed his position.
Boxer is leading among women by 17 percentage points, up from a three-point lead in May, according to a recent Los Angeles Times survey. Internal Democratic polling shows Bennet rising among women as well since August. And a Democratic-leaning group, the Planned Parenthood Action Fund is sending mail to more than 1.4 million independent women voters charging that Republicans oppose contraceptive coverage, women's health funding and abortion rights, among other things.
So, what all this indicates is that despite the horrendous condition the country is in, with almost $14 trillion dollars amassed in national debt, a health care program that's doomed to failure, no end to massive unemployment in sight, the government inching it's way into ownership of scores of private businesses via bailouts, taxes likely to skyrocket, and the middle class about to disappear economically, people will vote for Democrat incumbents simply because abortion's okay with them.
Maybe its me, but I just don't understand that. I thought that child-bearing, contraception, abortion and such, along with a host of other personal preferences were individual matters for people, and at most, included the additional guidance of their religious beliefs, leaders and advisors. But, apparently, a whole country can go up in economic smoke because some political turkeys think they have the right to determine how others deal with the most personal issues in life.
The United States likely has the most diversified population in the world. And within it are a myriad of cultures, sub-cultures, faiths, ideologies and beliefs. So, who is to say which of these is right or wrong, or which of their tenets prevails for all in the population? But, somehow or other it's come about that issues having nothing to do with the nation's condition in whole and individual's financial futures in particular may continue to devastate the entire nation, and perhaps might cripple its future irrevocably.
That's it for today folks.
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