For Carly Fiorina to target the “female vote” assumes that women will vote for her because she is a woman. This assumption is probably no more valid in her case than it is for Hillary Clinton. The presidential election is not a gender war, and gender is certainly no assurance of fitness for this most high office. Fiorina’s belief that “American women are better served by conservative ideals” fails to account for the slim chance, extremely slim, that conservative politicians are likely ever to do anything of benefit to women. It is just not in their DNA.