Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation, thinks that the gender-gap is widening in favor of Democrats at the mid-term elections and in 2008.
"Women have moved away from the Republican Party because they believe that the GOP has overstepped the bounds on the relationship between religion and science. Even women who are uncomfortable with abortion rights feel strongly that the government shouldn't dictate morality and that scientific progress shouldn't be proscribed by religion. Most women believe in science and want the US to remain a leader in technology and innovation. (Think stem cell research.) That explains, then, another one of the survey's findings-- one-third of women who voted for Bush in 2004 won't vote Republican in 2006."
Read the remainder of the Editor's Cut blog at: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut?pid=5756.
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