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Finding a million more Conservative votes: 'It’s about figuring out a way to speak to women'
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https://ca.news.yahoo.com/finding-mi...130033135.html
Alternate headline: Post election naval gazing Conservatives realize women exist, have concerns deeper than being on the clock.
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“So I think it’s going to be about figuring out a way to speak to women … on issues that affect them,” Ben reflects, in ways that don’t alienate other people. But, he admits, it’s a challenge to thread that needle.
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This I think is key to Conservative strategies. They view everything as two sides. "We must not alienate our base by respecting things like a women's right to chose, but we really want their votes." They've built themselves an impossible box in which the only way they can see women belonging in it is by having them adapt the views of the others in their party. And it's not just women, it's all types of Canadians that don't fit the mould. "Force 'em in it" isn't a winning strategy, particularity when it revolves around boundaries and moral positions.