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RandySF

(58,865 posts) Fri Oct 10, 2014, 02:19 PM Oct 2014

GOP Candidate: I'm actually winning if you don't count single moms.

The Republican challenger to Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) on Thursday blamed his double-digit lag in the polls on single women and mothers who vote Democratic because they are "wed" to the social safety net and "need benefits to survive."

Jeff Bell told the Asbury Park Press that it's that government-dependent female demographic, not his socially conservative views on issues like abortion and access to contraception, that is weighing him down.

"I've done a lot of thinking about this and looked at a lot of different polls, I think it has more to do with the rise in single women," he explained. "Single mothers particularly are automatically Democratic because of the benefits. They need benefits to survive, and so that kind of weds them to the Democratic Party."

"But single women who have never married and don't have children are also that way," he added. "If you take married women, they aren't that different from married men. So it's really a problem with the decline in marriage rates. The Democrats do benefit from that."

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/jeff-bell-single-mothers

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GOP Candidate: I'm actually winning if you don't count single moms. (Original Post) RandySF Oct 2014 OP

And if you don't count humans, I'm PM Prophet 451 Oct 2014 #1

lol Liberal_in_LA Oct 2014 #11

As long as whites over 50 vote (and no one else), Jeff Bell can win. Dawson Leery Oct 2014 #2

That's the GOP game plan in a nutshell: don't count the ones that won't vote GOP bigbrother05 Oct 2014 #3

So he admits they need benefits to survive yet he still wants to cut their benefits Bjorn Against Oct 2014 #4

And if you only count white males, I am gawd! muntrv Oct 2014 #5

The Onion... Lochloosa Oct 2014 #6

i think every repug believes they are winning if you don't count the votes samsingh Oct 2014 #7

Duh, the people doomed to extreme poverty by his policies won't vote for him. Taitertots Oct 2014 #8

In other words... LeftishBrit Oct 2014 #9

I say Smedley, what a shocking idea - hifiguy Oct 2014 #10

Oh, that is so offensive. gollygee Oct 2014 #12

reality check for politicians feeding at public trough Chimeradog Oct 2014 #13

But their vote does indeed count Generic Brad Oct 2014 #14

Prophet 451

(9,796 posts)

1. And if you don't count humans, I'm PM

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Fri Oct 10, 2014, 02:20 PM

Oct 2014

Both our cats would vote for me.

Liberal_in_LA

(44,397 posts)

11. lol

Reply to Prophet 451 (Reply #1)

Sat Oct 11, 2014, 04:24 PM

Oct 2014

Dawson Leery

(19,348 posts)

2. As long as whites over 50 vote (and no one else), Jeff Bell can win.

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Fri Oct 10, 2014, 02:24 PM

Oct 2014

bigbrother05

(5,995 posts)

3. That's the GOP game plan in a nutshell: don't count the ones that won't vote GOP

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Fri Oct 10, 2014, 02:29 PM

Oct 2014

Bjorn Against

(12,041 posts)

4. So he admits they need benefits to survive yet he still wants to cut their benefits

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Fri Oct 10, 2014, 02:31 PM

Oct 2014

Looks like an admission that he does not care whether or not they survive.

muntrv

(14,505 posts)

5. And if you only count white males, I am gawd!

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Fri Oct 10, 2014, 02:36 PM

Oct 2014

Lochloosa

(16,065 posts)

6. The Onion...

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Fri Oct 10, 2014, 02:44 PM

Oct 2014

Oh wait...it's not?

samsingh

(17,599 posts)

7. i think every repug believes they are winning if you don't count the votes

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Fri Oct 10, 2014, 03:42 PM

Oct 2014

Taitertots

(7,745 posts)

8. Duh, the people doomed to extreme poverty by his policies won't vote for him.

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Fri Oct 10, 2014, 03:49 PM

Oct 2014

At least single women are not voting against their interests.

LeftishBrit

(41,205 posts)

9. In other words...

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Sat Oct 11, 2014, 03:52 PM

Oct 2014

'I am losing badly, because too many people in my state, especially those with two X chromosomes, actually believe that their employees should do their job, and I don't want to!'

Everyone - unless they choose to go off and live on a desert island - is 'government dependent' in one way or another. I'll never understand all these Republicans who want to be employed as elected members of the government, and yet consider that people shouldn't ask anything of their government. Would you expect in any other context to be chosen for a job if you told your potential employers that you didn't want to have to work for them?

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)

10. I say Smedley, what a shocking idea -

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Sat Oct 11, 2014, 04:20 PM

Oct 2014

the common people voting for their own best interests? Only we of the 1% are allowed to do that, eh what? Call the Kochs and tell them to start running the ads again. Tell them I'll throw in another couple of million.

gollygee

(22,336 posts)

12. Oh, that is so offensive.

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Sat Oct 11, 2014, 04:24 PM

Oct 2014

"I'm winning if I only count the people I want to count."

And the people he doesn't want to count are actual real human beings whose votes count, and who as people count.

Chimeradog

(83 posts)

13. reality check for politicians feeding at public trough

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Sat Oct 11, 2014, 04:31 PM

Oct 2014

"its really a problem with decline in marriage rates"

.....yes, because women work and have to feed their kids, and some divorce because marriage in a bad economy crumbles.

woops, I forgot reality has nothing to do with white rethug male politicians who live in a bubble.

Generic Brad

(14,275 posts)

14. But their vote does indeed count

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Sat Oct 11, 2014, 04:35 PM

Oct 2014

Somehow I don't think that is the primary reason he is primed to lose by double digits.

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