Stephen Colbert on the Republican Party’s Failed Attempts to Court Female Voters
The midterm elections are coming up, and despite the fact that a Politico poll shows Republicans have serious "lady problems," as the "Colbert Report" host puts it, most GOP candidates seem hellbent on continuing to ignore and belittle more than half the country's population.The midterm elections are coming up, and despite the fact that polls show Republicans have a serious “lady problem,” as the “Colbert Report” host puts it, most GOP candidates seem hellbent on continuing to ignore and belittle half the country’s population.
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