So the war one women is over right? Well, the branding might be over, but the failure of the Udall candidacy doesn’t mean that the Democrats can’t successfully run an aggressive social liberalism campaign. Udall’s war on women campaign differed from the one Obama ran in 2012.

That doesn’t mean that conservatives can’t crack the 2012 Obama strategy. It would just be more difficult and possibly require a counterattack on social policy (preferably by outside groups rather than candidates). It is also worth remembering that the 2012 war on women stuff was way overrated as a matter of Obama campaign strategy. Obama’s focus on the economy and the Republicans as the party of the rich were more important for the Obama campaign. The war on women stuff was important primarily because of Republican senatorial campaign meltdowns and media feeding frenzies.