Jon Carroll in today’s SF Chronicle:
I think people voted for Obama for other reasons, and I think the Republican Party should try to understand the electoral victory in terms of what the voters believed about why they were voting. Far from being selfish, I think a lot of it was altruism.
It was people voting to help other people achieve full civil rights. It was people voting to protect women from the intrusions of government into their personal health care decisions. Romney cast the issue as “free birth control,” but that’s not it at all. Doesn’t cost a penny not to intervene between a patient and her doctor.
Read the column https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/carroll/article/To-all-my-friends-in-Wyoming-4054900.php.