With less than two weeks to go until Election Day, there is a deep divide among Republican leaders over whether to emphasize misogyny or racism as the campaigns closing theme. In one camp is the Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock, who says that his view that God is sometimes O.K. with rape is gaining real traction with a key demographic: men who dont like women very much. I cant tell you how many misogynists have come up to me at my rallies and said, Thank you for saying what you said, he told reporters today. I think theyre like, finally, someones taking a more nuanced position on rape. But in the other camp is the former New Hampshire governor John Sununu, who worries that the Republican Partys emphasis on misogyny is threatening to drown out its winning message of racism. I understand the appeal of Mourdocks anti-woman theme, but I worry that its going to overshadow our core value of racism, which is still our best shot at winning this thing, he said. In politics, youve got to dance with the one who brung you. Hoping to heal a possible rift with so little time left until Election Day, the R.N.C. chairman Reince Priebus said today that there is room for both views in todays Republican Party: Our big tent message to voters should be this: come for the misogyny, stay for the racism. 