Mitt Romney Also Attacked On Women's Issue By Ted Kennedy's '94

Mitt Romney Also Attacked On Women's Issue By Ted Kennedy's '94 Campaign

Mitt Romney has had three separate political campaigns to figure out how to attract women voters. A recent USA Today-Gallup Poll shows he needs more practice. The swing-states poll showed the GOP presidential frontrunner trailing President Barack Obama among women voters by 18 percentage points -- 54 to 36 percent.

Facing this deficit of female support, Romney has sought to highlight the huge numbers of women unemployed during the president's term. But Romney's campaign has struggled to answer basic questions about both his math and also his stance on women's issues, such as whether Romney supports the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, a bill signed by Obama which gave women more legal remedies to address equal pay disparities.

Such trip-ups have confounded Romney before. During his losing bid to unseat Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), Romney famously campaigned as a pro-choice Republican, and played up support for women breaking the glass ceiling in the corporate world. But he could be flat-footed when confronted with his actual record on women's issues.

In a May 1994 Boston Globe article, it was noted that Romney's team at Bain Capital was almost exclusively white and male, adding that "there are no minorities among the 95 vice presidents of Bain & Co. Only 10 percent are women." The candidate responded with a tired rejoinder: "It's a profession that has yet to attract many women and minorities."

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