One week, three TV ads and one theme: women.
Colorado’s Senate candidates continue to battle for the key swing constituency on issues such as abortion and birth control.
d lamenting that “we are still debating a woman’s access to abortion or birth control” in 2014. He goes on to criticize Republican rival Cory Gardner for “promoting harsh anti-abortion laws and a bill to outlaw birth control.”
A day later, NextGen, an outside political group supporting Democrats, .
The week ended with a Republican group trying to present a counter message.
In a spot that debuted Friday, Crossroads GPS, a political nonprofit that doesn’t disclose its voters, featured a woman named Melissa, a mother of five children, sitting in a kitchen calling Udall’s “war on women tactics insulting.”
“He’s assuming we are single issue voters,” the woman says. “Mark Udall is not talking about the things that keep me up at night. What about jobs and the economy, the cost of food and gas?”
The kicker: “Sen. Udall can’t talk about the real issues, itap time for someone who can.”
(Itap worth noting that if you need to run an ad saying the other side’s message is a misfire, itap probably because it hit the target.)
Other than Colorado women, one group paying attention to the barrage: . Colorado is being featured as “ground zero in the fight over female voters,” .
