Women seeing red in midterm elections, poised to help Republicans win big

What's motivating women voters in the midterm elections? Try rising crime and rising costs, challenges to their role as parents, threats to border security and national security.

Kellyanne Conway is a pollster of three decades, a Fox News contributor and author of the bestselling book, "Here's the Deal."

Prominent Democrats have warned their party to talk less about abortion and more about economic angst. Sure, many women (and men) care about abortion, but polls show it is being trumped by the weekly demands of filling up the gas tank and grocery cart, and the monthly demands of rent and mortgage, utilities and insurance, car and tuition payments. 

Yet the Democrats can't help themselves. They arrogantly think they own "women’s issues" and have taken for granted a conventional political gender gap that has narrowed, one that hardly helped Hillary Clinton become "the first woman president." Lately it seems Democrats speak to women mostly from the waist down, while Republicans speak to women from the waist up, where our brains, eyes, ears, mouths and hearts are.