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Female voters are fleeing the GOP as fast as they can
By Virginia SmithApril 2nd, 2012, 6:30 pmComments (16)
After months of being told in various ways that the party considers them to be sub-human, women oddly seem to be shying away from Republican candidates. According to a new Gallup poll, President Obama is currently leading Mitt Romney by a full eighteen points among women in swing states, giving him a nine-point lead on Romney overall. Just a month ago, the same polls showed Obama tailing him by two points.
Pollsters confirm that the huge shift is due almost entirely to female voters:
The biggest change came from women under fifty. In mid-February, just under half of those voters supported Obama. Now more than six in ten do while Romney's support among them has dropped by fourteen points, to 30%. The president leads him two-to-one in this group.
Given Romney's recent endorsement of the Blunt amendment as well as his assertion that if elected he'd shut down Planned Parenthood entirely, it's not exactly shocking that young women aren't dying to see him take office. Even Republican strategist Sara Taylor Fagen said, "The focus on contraception has not been a good one for us... and Republicans have unfairly taken on water on this issue."
Of course, Romney strategists point out that the "war on women" perception isn't his fault, and that margins will narrow as the election nears, which is undoubtedly true. Still, will it really be that easy to win back a constituency that's still undergoing a series of prolonged and highly personal attacks?
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Commentarium (16 Comments)
WHAT IS THAT THING
Some dumb graphic the non-designer idiots at Nerve came up with.
SnuffleupaIUDagus, I think.
elephant, dawg
It looks like Cthulhu to me.
54% vs 45% Romney. Not even close. You heard it here first.
This is why the Democrats came up with this bogus "Republicans are going sew your vagina shut" stragetgy.
Ranks right up there with "Obama is going to take all your guns away."
Dont forget the "Obama is going instal death panels" : )
We'll have death panels only they'll be called Medical Procedure Allocation Panels (or something similar). While it's true they will not assign people to death directly, they'll deny healthcare to people who will die without it. A good example, is denying a liver transplant to someone with liver cancer.
@Wellll: Like that doesn't happen all the time now? There are fewer organs available than are needed. Medical panels decide who gets the liver (or heart or whatever) based on medical factors like how likely the transplant is to succeed and whose life will be most improved. The "Death Panels" argument is just another fraud being perpetrated by the Rapepublicans.
"The focus on contraception has not been a good one for us... Republicans have unfairly taken on water on this issue."
Unfairly?!? Am I missing something?
Of course it's unfair. No one told them they had to respect, acknowledge and listen to female voters :(
...when I was in grad school, no one paid for my food? I need to eat, do I not? It's good for the country that I was in grad school, wasn't it?
I also needed a place to live that no one offered to pay for.
Is it because of my sex? My race? What is it? I have demands that society must meet or I will raise hell.
If you could not afford food, you could have sought out food stamps. If you could not afford shelter, there are homeless shelters. Maybe it was because you could actually afford those things and you're just being a twat.
I assume you mean "twat" in the bad sense of the word.
Hey, Grad School, anyone pay your tuition, like with a government research grant or other grant? Were you subsidized by the taxpayers by going to a state school? Were you able to get loans at a reduced rate because they were backed by the government? You're like those senior citizen tea-baggers who rail against government handouts from the comfort of their Medicare-paid-for hoverchairs. I guess whatever you were studying in grad school, it didn't include how to think critically.