Yeah, pitching to the women's vote, still. As best I can tell from canvassing, the GOP never had the women's vote and was never gonna get it. The gender gap is huge, because the Dems are so much better on education, child care, child medical insurance, children's issues, equal pay, nondiscrimination legislation etc etc. Quite apart from the abortion thing.

In the debate last night Obama finally mentioned how crappy No Child Left Behind is--and got huge positive response from all the votermeters (FWIW). McCain's contribution to that discussion was to suggest that Head Start--one of the most spectacularly successful programs in this country's history--"needs reform." GOP code for "privatize it out of existence."