ASHE SCHOW: One year since White House launched ‘It’s On Us’ campaign, where are the results?

On Sep. 19, 2014, the White House launched the “It’s On Us” campaign, its latest attempt to combat campus sexual assault.

If the measure of a successful program is the number of celebrities that endorse it, then “It’s On Us” has been a rousing success. But in the year since the campaign was launched, the Obama administration has been unable to point to one tangible success of the program.

Earlier this month, the administration sent out a “fact sheet” highlighting the first year of the campaign and including everything President Obama and his administration has done to combat sexual assault and violence against women. One thing noticeably absent from the press release: One iota of evidence that any of the numerous committees, task forces, programs, campaigns or speeches has made a dent in the number of sexual assaults.

The only tangible result that this campaign was intended to produce was a firming up of the “War On Women” narrative that was supposed to solidify female votes for Hillary. Problem is, it turns out women don’t much like Hillary. Men either.

And, hey, campus sexual assault has already been dropping on its own since 1992, so no harm done.