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My DW wants to know why Nick Clegg is attracting female votes: She just does not get it.

57 replies

BeenBeta · 22/04/2010 15:27

My DW has asked me to post this as she is very interested in politics and often asks what the MN vote is thinking. She is not a party worker or candidate but just interested.

It is said that Nick Clegg is bringing young people, public sector workers and women over to Lib Dem from Labour.

DW is neither young nor public sector but want to know why as a woman she should be swayed.

OP posts:
oneofsuesylvesterscheerios · 22/04/2010 16:14

Because if you view the TV debates as a game of shag marry die, you would

well, I would, given the alternatives

scoutliam · 22/04/2010 16:04

I honestly have no idea BB, he's not convinced me.
I assume it's the "third party" thing, can't bring yourself to vote Con and fed up to the back teeth with Lab.

ProfessorLaytonIsMyLoveSlave · 22/04/2010 16:00

Because she's convinced by his arguments and policies? Same reason anyone, male or female, should be swayed towards any party.

Without knowing anything about your wife other than that she is female, married and neither young nor a public sector worker I couldn't venture to suggest whether any Liberal Democrat policies in particular would be likely to appeal.

ISTR that historically the central "third party" has appealed more to female than to male voters, but I can't remember where I saw those figures quoted and it may be wholly innaccurate. And if true I have no particular idea why it should be so.

gingercat12 · 22/04/2010 15:36

Never judge a book by its cover, as they say. I would not vote for any of them based on their looks.

expatinscotland · 22/04/2010 15:34

He doesn't do anything for me.

Nor do the other two.

GrimmaTheNome · 22/04/2010 15:33

Because he evidently treats his wife as a person in her own right rather than as an electoral asset, and he dissed SWMNBN?

deaddei · 22/04/2010 15:32

He's more shaggable than the others