Comparing these two Democratic presidential campaign ads, the first targeting women voters in 1980 and the second targeting women voters today, one is struck not only by the obvious coarsening of our culture but how intellectually shallow the appeal to women voters has become.
It's insulting, really. If I were a registered Democrat, I'd be pretty offended. Between Lena Dunham's silly analogy about how voting for Obama is like losing your virginity and the Obama administration's depiction of the federal government as a woman's daddy/husband (The Life of Julia), one can't help but wonder what's happened to the so-called "feminist" party.
If the primary appeal to women voters coming out of the Democratic party has to do with finding a guy who will take care of you, maybe that's why polling is beginning to show a closing of the gender gap between Obama and Romney.
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