Since the U.S. is largely moderate to conservative, it was hard to imagine how someone as far left as Barack Obama twice won the presidency. After the election was over, we learned how the Democrats’ data mining operation succeeded in bringing to the polls the outlying constituencies he needed to win (given the normally low turnout of the rest of the voters). Part of that mining for voters involved targeting messages designed to emotionally appeal to them, given that “belief” once formed in these peoples’ minds defeats any rational arguments. The big (and unfortunately successful) target of these emotional appeals was women voters -- especially single heads of households who were led to believe that the opposition was at war with them and their interests. The claims, of course, were poppycock, but they are back and it’s time we girded our loins (or for the distaff side, hitched up our pantyhose) and did our best to disabuse the ignorant of these...(Read Full Article)