Both Romney and Obama argue that women don’t need to be treated differently, that the same issues matter to every voter. But in sexualizing female voters, campaigns send the opposite message: That women can’t be trusted to vote based on political knowledge, but have to rely on more easily accessible short-hands, like whether the president would make a good boyfriend.
How both parties try to woo women by linking voting to sex.
Here are five ways they tried to win votes with a ridiculous concept of “what women want.”
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