that's the word defused by the noted pollster sheechlt sa. she said plummeted is exactly the right word. when women did not get out and vote in 2010, what was the result? the tea party. the tea party. a virtually unprecedented war against women. tea party-elected officials flooded into the united states congress and into the state legislatures. in many states taking over all three governing bodies -- the house, the senate, and the governorship in many states. what is the result of that? well, for one thing we have seen the sorry and pathetic spectacle of a panel of men considering contraception and announcing to the world unashamed that contraception is not about women. that contraception is about the religious sensitivity of some extremist religious zealot men. that is what we learned from women not voting in 2010. what else did we see? we saw a man who is so empowered that none other than david frum, a former official in the george w. bush white house declares that this man is the most feared man in the republican party and that man's name