Well, This Is Depressing: Poll Says Most Women 50+ Are Undecided on Election

OK, we know that women over 50 don't have to worry about their own reproductive rights any longer. But that still doesn't help us wrap our heads around the results of a new AARP poll that came to this conclusion: A majority of US women age 50 and over—one of the largest and most reliable voting blocs—is still undecided in the final weeks leading to the midterms, casting uncertainty on the outcome of a critical election year.

Those who want to curb our reproductive rights are confirming the thing we've always feared and chafed at: That we as women (of all ages) actually are irrelevant.

While nearly all of older female voters said they will cast ballots in November, 51 percent hadn’t yet picked their congressional candidates, according to the poll released yesterday. Four in ten will decide in the last few weeks before the election, and they divide evenly between Democrats and Republicans.