Why Are Independent and Undecided Women Voters Turning Away from Obama To Romney?

Obama and the Democrats have a single major argument for women's support - they will maintain unlimited abortion policy and promise free access to birth control and abortion for poor women. This political line, which erects a straw man argument, because Romney is not in favor of removing the right to abortion for medical reasons, appears not to be holding women to Obama. A minor argument: the equal pay is hardly a winner argument, too, since it has been the law for decades,and because it is another straw man argument -Romney is not in favor of unequal pay for equal work. In these political arguments, Obama has tried vigorously in the campaign to portray Romney as an unfeeling and untrustworthy man.

Surveys see other issues more important to women, such as economic security and jobs. But there must be more.

Perhaps there is a visceral issue that women sense as they become more acquainted with Romney.

In the real world, the major of men, whether in marriage or in unmarried relationships, do not stand by their women. They do not stand by their women in the abortion issue, because it is mostly the men in women's lives, not the pregnant women themselves, who want the women to have abortions. Further, looking at divorce statistics and relationship dissolution, most men do not stand by their women, and often their children.

In the real world, most women are betrayed by men who cannot be trusted. Obama proposes, as liberals always do, that the remedy for women is in governmental support. But what woman is satisfied with dependency on a different set of men - liberal politicians who are mostly men?

Romney is different. He is an honorable man who has stood by his wife in her most horrific medical crises. He has been attentive, even though he has pursued a demanding private business career and a political career. He has stood by his family. He has supported his family in material and emotional comfort. His personal love and loyalty is, further, anchored in his religious values. Mormonism is, along with Catholicism, one of the nation's major supporters of the family.

Romney's character is the subliminal message, I think, that women are beginning to receive and understand - Romney stands by his woman. He is a man women can trust.