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But the greatest defeat in the “War on Women” on Tuesday night came in California. There, the prototypical victim of Republicans’ supposed assaults on women’s health, the very face of Republican antipathy toward reproductive rights, Sandra Fluke, lost her bid for office.


Fluke lost to Ben Allen, a Santa Monica-Malibu school board member, by over 21 points. As The Huffington Post’s Paul Blumenthal reported last month, real estate mogul Bill Bloomfield poured $1.3 million into independent expenditures backing Allen’s campaign, an enormous amount for a state Senate race. Both Fluke and Allen raised over $1 million for their respective campaigns.

The “War on Women” is not going away in 2016, but Democrats will be far more cautious when they invoke its themes. 2014 showed that it simply is no longer that effective a political tactic.
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