Conservatives: Platform for Men

[maplesyrup]

Men support the Harper Conservatives in much higher numbers than women.

What is it that makes women afraid of the Conservatives?

Is it the war in Iraq?

Is it Star Wars?

It is about abortion rights for women?

Is it about taxation issues?

Is it about poverty?

Is it about the less priviledged?

What is it anyway that is keeping women away from the Conservatives?

[BQSupporter]

Why do you post so much? It seems like Maple post more then anyone else on this website. Why is that?

[takeanumber]

Maple:

According to Blais et. al., the answer to your question is clear.

Women who are married tend to be very conservative. The likelyhood of a woman being conservative triples when she is married.

Why?

Because married couples pay high taxes, and the woman is very likely to see a lot of that money flow out of her household towards programs that she doesn't use.

The likelyhood of a woman being a NDP or Liberal supporter doubles though if she is divorced, and nearly triples if she is divorced with children.

Why?

Because divorced woman and divorced women need to access those social programs, which are funded and supported by left of centre governments.

The likelyhood of a single urban woman being Liberal is also quite high.

The likelyhood a single urban woman with children (not married, never divorced) of being a NDP supporter is EXTREMELY HIGH. (I can't remember the number off hand), but, for the same reasons above.

Hope that helps,

Takeanumber.

(These results were in part from Blais et al, "anatomy of a liberal victory", and also from journal articles in the Canadian Journal of Political Science.

[caesar]

Maple; perhaps it is because women are better judges of men.

The big issues; I believe are the Iraq issue; which basically boils down to Harper's readiness to follow Bush and Co. down any road. Harper seems to support any issue that will make the USA government happy.

Any attempt, at this time, to repair the relationship with the American government would be seen as weakness and acceptance of the American actions.

Trade relations with the USA have often been difficult but have escalated to an extremely unfair and vindictive level under Bush.

Health Care is the other big issue. His hints of allowing private clinics will lead to the disintegration of equal health care.

What exactly are people finding in his platform to vote FOR. I believe most are voting against the Liberals due to their misdeeds. However, if they do not know the platform and intentions of the Conservatives; they may well find themselves out of the frying pan and into the fire.

We, In BC; do this time and time again; only to be upset with what we get. The ruling party in BC call themselves Liberals but their ideas are much the same as Harpers. It has caused much distress here in BC. Our record on women's and children's rights here in BC have been downgraded by the UN several times in the past 2 years.

We are paying much more for Health Care in medicare payments and seniors prescriptions; waiting lists are getting longer; many services have been delisted; regular eye exams, chiropractors, and physiotherapy are no longer covered by medicare.

[August1991]

Women are less inclined to take risks than men do.

Because divorced woman and divorced women need to access those social programs, which are funded and supported by left of centre governments.

The causality might go in the other direction.

[maplesyrup]

Is Harper's opposition to Kyoto part of the reason less women than men support him?

Des femmes s'unissent pour dénoncer les positions de Stephen Harper

[Slavik44]

no sorry I am afriad to say that this is a media spin it is a half truth. This is why....

What we are told is that

38% of men say they will vote conservative

30% of women say they will vote conservative

Then upoun this they tell us how, the conservative aprty apeals to men, it is a party for male supremisicts and what not. However they don;t give you any real substance or true comparions. To compare how a party appeals to women compare it to other parties not men.

then you would find

Conservatives: 30% of female voters

Liberals: 33% of female voters

NDP: 19% of female voters

BQ: 13% of female voters

GP: 5% of Female voters

Now do you see anyone argueing that the conservatives appeal more to women then the NDP?

Now that may nto be a fair arguement but that is what the media is giving you when they present the information. I woudl really encourage you to dig deeper and look at the source not just the article. At the Source you will find that the ocnservative and Liberals are within 3% of each other for Female voters, the margin of error its self is about 3%. So the Liberals do not neccasarily appeal more to women then the conservatives do. If we continued to use the media's way of presenting this we could argue that the Liberals are an Atlantic Canadian party. That agian is simply not true, much like the arguements used about conservatives and women the appeal to women jsut as much as the liberals.

Here is the polling data for you guys to look at if you want, draw your own conclusions, do not just say the media said it, so it must be true, evne if they give you some numbers, look at all the numbers, not jsut soem of the numbers.

http://www.ekos.com/admin/articles/11June2...essReleaseb.pdf

[maplesyrup]

Women are much less supportive of the Conservatives than men.

Compare the Conservative spread to the other major parties.

It has nothing to do with media spin.

What is causing this serious gender gap?

Federal Election Voting Patterns

[Slavik44]

Women are much less supportive of the Conservatives than men.

Compare the Conservative spread to the other major parties.

It has nothing to do with media spin.

What is causing this serious gender gap?

Federal Election Voting Patterns

Perhaps conservatives appeal more to men then women, but Conservatives appeal jsut as much to women as anyother party. So perhaps we should ask why do other parties not appeal to men?