YES! Their extreme policies will alienate more and more women.
64%
NO! Gerrymandering will protect the GOP from losing elections.
36%
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Who needs gerrymandering when we have such widespread ignorance today? Indeed, we've watched (and celebrated) a right-wing campaign against education for decades, nurturing a low-info mainstrea culture. I think a good chunk of the population thinks of the two leading parties like football treams -- the issues are irrelevant, they just want their chosen team to win.
You can't gerrymander around sex.
Most definitely. Even gerrymandering won't help them if they alienate Republican women. They're also alienating Hispans, LGBT's, blacks and all poor people. Eventually they will run out of people who support them and then no amount of money will buy them an election. Of course by then they'll have stacked the courts in their favor and taken over many of the States, so not sure they even care much anymore about national elections.
Their extreme policies are alienating not only women, but formerly moderate Republicans as well, who may either change sides, go independent, or not vote at all, which, along with alienating women, African-Americans, hispanics and various non-Christian religious sects, will skew any Gerrymandering efforts. Enough people are fed with up a do-nothing, sell-out Congress and extreme ideologies, that make the home of the free and the brave a home of the impoverished and starving, enough perhaps to turn the 2014 election into a liberal landslide. Media may be avoiding issues, but they can't hide higher costs for goods, homes still foreclosing, ripoff bank fees, outrageous student loan bills, people in food pantry lines, or simply less money in a person's wallet. There comes a time when people look at their own situations and figure it out, and a time when mainstream news loses touch with the real world as much as their sponsors have. I believe it was Abe Lincoln who said, "you can't fool all the people all the time."