christie and hillary clinton are top contenders right now. christie polling 48% against ms. clinton at 46%. independents are big for christie. women like hillary. joining us from washington katelyn huey burns reporter for real clear politics and charlesville, virginia dr. larry sabato who teaches politics there. doctor, tell me about christie and the woman vote. what s the problem? well, he has got an r. next to his name, bill. if he had a d next to his name he would be winning the women s vote. we live in a polarized era and men identify disproportionately with the republican party and women identify disproportionately with the democratic party. you don t think it s a matter of style that christie is so blunt and some women don t like that kind of confrontation? not really. and i will bet you some money right now, bill, it has to it be a little bit of money, but i bet you some money right now whoever the republican nominee is in 2016 will have a gender gap about the same as we h
christie and hillary clinton are top contenders right now. christie polling 48% against ms. clinton at 46%. independents are big for christie. women like hillary. joining us from washington katelyn huey burns reporter for real clear politics and charlesville, virginia dr. larry sabato who teaches politics there. doctor, tell me about christie and the woman vote. what s the problem? well, he has got an r. next to his name, bill. if he had a d next to his name he would be winning the women s vote. we live in a polarized era and men identify disproportionately with the republican party and women identify disproportionately with the democratic party. you don t think it s a matter of style that christie is so blunt and some women don t like that kind of confrontation? not really. and i will bet you some money right now, bill, it has to it be a little bit of money, but i bet you some money right now whoever the republican nominee is in 2016 will have a gender gap about the same as we h
now we ve got an expert on the program tonight. kelly ann and sam stein. kelly, i most want to hear from you. just forget the usual partisan arguments we have here and everywhere else. if you sat with a young candidate, man or woman, who tried to turn so he had a 50/50 shot at the woman vote, what would you tell that person to do? i would say many things. one is if you re accused of holding a position and people are going to go on eight cylinders against that position, in this case paint ken cuccinelli as too anti-woman, anti-abortion, anti-divorce in virginia. you have to own it or explain it. and i think what he did is he allowed silence to be acquiesced. he went jobs, jobs, economy, economy. he lost women by nine points. romney lost women by 13 points to barack obama a year earlier.
strategy that advises republican candidates on how to tailor their messages to women. now we ve got an expert on the program tonight. kelly ann and sam stein. kelly, i most want to hear from you. just forget the usual partisan arguments we have here and everywhere else. if you sat with a young candidate, man or woman, who tried to turn so he had a 50/50 shot at the woman vote, what would you tell that person to do? i would say many things. one is if you re accused of holding a position and people are going to go on eight cylinders against that position, in this case paint ken cuccinelli as too anti-woman, anti-abortion, anti-divorce in virginia. you have to own it or explain it. and i think what he did is he allowed silence to be ak we essenced. he went jobs, jobs, economy,
buy your own birth control pill. buy your own breast pump. it s not insurance. it s welfare. i mean, this kind of rhetoric clearly is why they ve had such problems with the woman vote. can they continue to have these people be the guide behind the policies and the rhetoric and what is being sold on the right and think they could every appeal to women voters, krystal? yeah, i don t think that single women are going to vote for a party that sees them as giant receptacles of semon. i don t think that s probably the right messaging to go in. the bottom line here is it s not just about the messaging which has been unbelievably offensive. the bottom line is women have realized what s going on not just at the federal level but in states across the country where legislature after legislature has been pushing extreme anti-woman provisions. just today you have greg abbott, the attorney general in texas. the guy who s running for