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Wanted in the last presidential election? >> one of things the party needs to be doing is targing different groups and break them down into smaller segments. a lot of commentators say women are a lost vote and we should not even pay attention to women. when you break down women into different segments, we can win different groups. we have been able to reach college women across the country by really trying to meet young college women where they are on the campuses. we need to reach people where ...

Wanted in the last presidential election? >> one of things the party needs to be doing is targing different groups and break them down into smaller segments. a lot of commentators say women are a lost vote and we should not even pay attention to women. when you break down women into different segments, we can win different groups. we have been able to reach college women across the country by really trying to meet young college women where they are on the campuses. we need to reach people where ...

Cancer, heart disease and osteoporosis. and that is where she was this morning when i was attempting to tell her story in front of members of congress. she was at the doctors, trying to cope with the symptoms she was experiencing. >> are people on campus, is this really hitting the attention of women you interact with professionally in the school setting? >> oh, my goodness, unless you study at one of these schools i cannot even explain to you what it is like on campus. we have been following th...

Nothing any doctor can do to help her conceive a child, and it will put her at risk for -- increase the risk for cancer, heart disease, and osteoporosis. and that is where she was this morning when i was attempting to tell her story in front of members of congress. she was at the doctors, trying to cope with the symptoms she was experiencing. >> are people on campus, is this really hitting the attention of women you interact with professionally in the school setting? >> oh, my goodness, unless y...

This is our health. this is not for politics. also, the tone and tenor and lack of respect and the nature of the conversation that was happening, not just at the federal level but at the state level saying, you know those shifty women, theyll use rape as a loophole if we let them. i think women were really offended and felt like, wait a second, if you cant trust me to make these decisions how do you know you really trust me as secretary of state or as a ceo. i actually think that women have -- l...

Sort of create a coalition of republican women who will argue this. i think theyre even offended by it. the republicans have been successful at least in cleving off a certain percentage of married women. but i question whether or not those polls are going to be sort of played out on election day the same way. i think a lot of women privately, including republican women, are deeply offended by the say sandra was treated by rush limbaugh. >> the whole foods moms who fiscally may go with romney but...

To engage in to create broad social change and to really eliminate masogony from our culture. if you look at unmarried women in the likely voters unmarried in the battleground states, theres a 25-point gender gap among those women. those are young women and they are the future of the electorate and they are going to make a difference. >> this point, exactly, when you take apart the womens numbers it looked like there are groups of women, again, at the intersectional identities who absolutely get...

For office after this tuesday. because right now im focused on what comes next. im focused on what we owe women in this country after we talked so much about them this election cycle. its time to deliver on their concerns in the next few years. >> absolutely. so, thank you so much for joining us tonight. you know we have lots of fun playing around with different names for the show today. its why women matter, which i think is what you articulated. i wanted women on top or ladies choice or that s...

Day to day. >> rebecca, im convinced that part of senator boxer was saying, the romneys keep saying, oh, dont think about these other issues. theyre saying like, dont vote like a girl. go vote like a man. >> they are. theyre trying to fell minize the issues. that minimizes them. there are all of those double-sided ads you saw a few weeks ago, those things youre hearing about mitt romney and contraception arent right, but dont worry, we know its not what you care about anyway, its not important. ...

Of california, at least 5,000 students converged on the state capitol. they occupied the dome. and they were there protesting because they want access to affordable education. and this comes in the midst of statistics that are telling us that for the average california family who has an income of $100,000, it would be more expensive to send their child, the student, to the university of california system or the state college system than it would be to send that child to harvard or princeton or y...