By Dave Andrusko

Over the last week I’ve passed along a lot of information about the elections—who voted for whom based on what. One of the ways we have broke out the election is to talk about women.

As we discussed, there are women and then there are WOMEN. The latter are pro-abortion Democrats, the former are everybody else. We talked about how pro-life Republican women did amazingly well, which was ignored in the rush to talk about the November 2 elections as, at best, a wash for WOMEN.

But prior to last Tuesday’s elections, we also wrote about the data showing that women were no longer overwhelmingly in the corner of Democrats. A piece yesterday in the Los Angeles Times examined what happened week ago.

Overall, 49% of women voted Republican to 48% Democratic. Four years ago, Democrats carried 55% of the female vote.
Republicans were up 4% among married women—to 54%--from the last midterm elections.

Democrats “also lost ground among single women, historically one of the party's most loyal demographic groups,” write Matea Gold and Jordan Steffen under the headline “Even single women, longtime Dem stalwarts, shifted in '10.” Unmarried women “still voted overwhelmingly for Democratic candidates this year, but by a narrower margin than in recent elections.

That's because half of white unmarried women voted Republican this year, up from 39% in the last two cycles, according to a poll by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research.”

As we look ahead, the most interesting number of all: “A large part of the swing among unmarried white women was due to the sharp drop in support for Democrats among seniors, said Page Gardner, founder of the advocacy group Women's Voices, Women Vote.” She said “the organization's focus groups found seniors were scared by ‘the misconceptions around what would happen with health care and Medicare.’”

But, of course, they aren’t “misconceptions” at all. The electorate in general and seniors in particular grasp what ObamaCare means—starting with the rationing of medically necessary care—which we will be writing about tomorrow.

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