MB: During the 2010 Congressional campaigns, Republican candidates around the country ran against you, instead of their actual Democratic opponents. In some districts voters saw more images of you than the person running. According to the Washington Post, they spent at least $65 million running 161,203 ads against Nancy Pelosi. Are we going to see a rerun of that this year?
NANCY PELOSI: I certainly hope not. But they run against me because I'm effective. They came in massively against us because they feared what we were trying to do for women and men in the workplace and it has an impact.
MB: Women are the majority of voters, and often when we hear "women's issues" people automatically think of abortion. It's important, but what else should women be thinking about?
NANCY PELOSI: There are some issues we have to pay special attention to, because if we don't, they won't be addressed fully. No matter what the age of a woman or girl, there is a public policy impact that is not very positive right now, whether we're talking about education, or job availability for older women, or younger women who want to start a family on their own timing.
At every stage of life women have a vulnerability in a special way, to changes in public policy. I'm very concerned about what is described as a "war on women" that is going on here. I don't know if women have any idea how much they have at risk in this election. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/martha-burk/nancy-pelosi-elections-2012_b_1348460.html
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