The New York Times published a piece today pointing to Carly Fiorina as the possible solution to the GOP’s woman problem. Jeremy Peters writes: “With a debate performance that was steely and at times deeply personal, Carly Fiorina appears to have improved her standing in the race to be the Republican nominee…she took a big stride toward filling a role her party badly needs: a credible antidote to the gender gap and the Democrats’ claims of a Republican ‘war on women.’”
There is so much wrong with that sentence. First, it implies that the reason women aren’t voting for Republicans is that they don’t have enough female candidates. “Winning the female vote is challenging for any Republican,” Peters writes, “Women have traditionally identified strongly with the Democratic Party, while male voters are split between the two parties.”