Both major political parties are determined to win over women voters, but as the Republican National Convention participants deal with hurricane conditions in Tampa this week, the Democrats are starting a storm of their own, launching a new program highlighting the ways they say the GOP has fallen short with women.

Dubbed "Romney/Ryan: Wrong for Women," the week-long series of events sports a roster of high-profile female politicians, a former Bain Capital employee, White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett, and women's health activist Sandra Fluke, who was branded a "slut" by Rush Limbaugh after she was barred from testifying before a congressional committee about birth control access earlier this year.

The Democratic push is about more than just reproductive health issues, Fluke told Yahoo! Shine in an exclusive interview on Monday.

"I think it's much more than reproductive health issues," Fluke says. "That is very critical for women, and we've heard a lot about that. Bu

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It has arrived. The slow rising waters of another presidential campaign year have crested the banks, trickled over the sand bags, and at this very moment, are inching their way up our living room walls.

The messages and the accusations, the plans and the promises, the nastiness and the endless attempts at convincing, it's all here now, gushing out of every TV and computer in the country, whether we like it or not.

This past week, sitting on my couch and watching some CNN, I finally realized that I couldn't really tune it out much anymore. That time has come and gone. In a world gone hog-wild with smearing personal opinions over every possible electric screen, to try and dodge the lightning would be pointless and frustrating.

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So, I acquiesce.

I cave.

But, it's cool.

I mean, I want to vote and I intend to vote and I am interested in who is saying what now in the final few mon

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Things have already gotten pretty ugly in the 2012 presidential campaign, and with two and a half months to go before Election Day they're only going to get uglier. With so much negativity coming from both sides, parents would be forgiven for wishing their kids could be blissfully unaware of the election. Unfortunately, that isn't really possible in this day and age.

So what do you tell your kids about all of this madness? Yesterday I had a chat with two friends about this, and their opinions were so different that I was left without a clue what to do in 2016 when Annie is old enough to know what's going on.

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Our conversation started when I casually mentioned that I was annoyed whenever I heard a little kid say they liked one candidate over the other.

"Really?" I snarked. "Lil' Timmy prefers Romney's position on capital gains taxes to Obama's?"

This lead one of my friends to say that she ac

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By Leslie Marshall

Leslie Marshall is a nationally syndicated radio host heard nationwide weekdays from 7-10pm Eastern time on radio and streamed live at www.lesliemarshallshow.com. Leslie is also a Fox News contributor seen weekly on The O'Reilly Factor, America Live, monthly on Hannity and she sits in for Bob Beckel as one of the co hosts on The Five. She lives in Los Angeles.

Todd Akin. It's a name all Americans know today due to his remark that victims of "legitimate rape" rarely get pregnant. This offended me and so many others. But perhaps even more so, victims of rape and victims who were impregnated by their attackers.

So after Akin made such a disgusting remark, you think he would apologize? Clarify? This is what he said: There isn't any legitimate rapist…."I was making the point that there were people who use false claims, like those basically created Roe v. Wade..."

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When people say that the GOP has launched a War on Women, things like this are at the core of their complaint: Rick Santorum saying that rape victims who get pregnant should "make the best out of a bad situation." Georgia state Representative Terry England comparing women to farm animals. And now, Republican Congressman Todd Akin insisting that allowing abortion in cases of rape is unnecessary because women who are "legitimately raped" don't get pregnant.

Is the Republican party really anti-women?

"First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare," Akin told KTVI-TV, a Fox affiliate in St. Louis, in an interview broadcast on Sunday. "If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."



He seems to genuinely believe what he's saying, even though it's wrong on so many levels -- physiologically, statistically, emotionally. But what's especially chilling is the implication that if a woman becomes pregnant

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