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Obama Picking Up Women Voters and Economy Improving
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4 More years!
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Date: February 28, 2012 12:40PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/campaigns/obama-gains-among-women-amid-improving-economy-new-talk-about-their-access-to-birth-control/2012/02/27/gIQADMSOeR_story.html
Washington — It’s looking like President Barack Obama may be back in the good graces of women.
His support dropped among this critical constituency just before the new year began and the presidential campaign got under way in earnest. But his standing with female voters is strengthening, polls show, as the economy improves and social issues, including birth control, become a bigger part of the nation’s political discourse.
“Republicans are making a big mistake with this contraception talk, and I’m pretty sure that they are giving (the election) to Obama,” says Patricia Speyerer, 87, of McComb, Miss., a GOP-leaning independent. “It’s a stupid thing.”
The recent furor over whether religious employers should be forced to pay for their workers’ contraception is certainly a factor but hardly the only reason for women warming up to Obama again after turning away from him late last year.
An Associated Press-GfK poll suggests women also are giving the president more credit than men are for the country’s economic turnaround.
Among women, his approval ratings on handling the economy and unemployment have jumped by 10 percentage points since December. Back then, a wide swath of Americans expressed anxiety over the nation’s slow climb out of recession and anger at a government that couldn’t agree on steps to speed things up.
Since then, the unemployment rate has kept declining, and Obama hasn’t been shy about trumpeting it, and analysts say that drop may have resonated particularly with women.
For Obama, there is no more crucial constituency than women. They make up a majority of voters in presidential elections, and a bit more of them identify with his party. He would not be president today without topping Republican John McCain in that group in 2008. And Republicans would need to win a sizable share — more than about 40 percent — of female voters to beat him.
Washington — It’s looking like President Barack Obama may be back in the good graces of women.
His support dropped among this critical constituency just before the new year began and the presidential campaign got under way in earnest. But his standing with female voters is strengthening, polls show, as the economy improves and social issues, including birth control, become a bigger part of the nation’s political discourse.
“Republicans are making a big mistake with this contraception talk, and I’m pretty sure that they are giving (the election) to Obama,” says Patricia Speyerer, 87, of McComb, Miss., a GOP-leaning independent. “It’s a stupid thing.”
The recent furor over whether religious employers should be forced to pay for their workers’ contraception is certainly a factor but hardly the only reason for women warming up to Obama again after turning away from him late last year.
An Associated Press-GfK poll suggests women also are giving the president more credit than men are for the country’s economic turnaround.
Among women, his approval ratings on handling the economy and unemployment have jumped by 10 percentage points since December. Back then, a wide swath of Americans expressed anxiety over the nation’s slow climb out of recession and anger at a government that couldn’t agree on steps to speed things up.
Since then, the unemployment rate has kept declining, and Obama hasn’t been shy about trumpeting it, and analysts say that drop may have resonated particularly with women.
For Obama, there is no more crucial constituency than women. They make up a majority of voters in presidential elections, and a bit more of them identify with his party. He would not be president today without topping Republican John McCain in that group in 2008. And Republicans would need to win a sizable share — more than about 40 percent — of female voters to beat him.
Re: Obama Picking Up Women Voters and Economy Improving
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Poppin' Jay Fox
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Date: February 28, 2012 01:24PM
Rasmussen, then Gallup. Those are the two pollsters you can rely on. AP will put out bogus numbers until about a month before any election and then scramble to the real numbers so they don't look like the fools they are.
Rasmussen and Gallup have the race tied between Odumo and Romney, Santorum or Paul.
I do agree that women and men with high levels of estrogen are the main voting bloc of democrats. Making decisions on emotion.
Rasmussen and Gallup have the race tied between Odumo and Romney, Santorum or Paul.
I do agree that women and men with high levels of estrogen are the main voting bloc of democrats. Making decisions on emotion.
Re: Obama Picking Up Women Voters and Economy Improving
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RealityCheck
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Date: February 28, 2012 01:26PM
What a Rasmussen?
Re: Obama Picking Up Women Voters and Economy Improving
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Hay Zeus
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Date: February 28, 2012 01:30PM
Obama Picking Up Women - IN ACTION!
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Re: Obama Picking Up Women Voters and Economy Improving
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DemsRule
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Date: February 28, 2012 01:42PM
Hay Zeus Wrote:
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> Obama Picking Up Women - IN ACTION!
Or he's pissed about the trash on the steps.
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> Obama Picking Up Women - IN ACTION!
Or he's pissed about the trash on the steps.
Re: Obama Picking Up Women Voters and Economy Improving
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Viva la France!
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Date: February 28, 2012 01:47PM
DemsRule Wrote:
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> Or he's pissed about the trash on the steps.
You shouldn't say that about Sarkozy!
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> Or he's pissed about the trash on the steps.
You shouldn't say that about Sarkozy!
Re: Obama Picking Up Women Voters and Economy Improving
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CannesOfBeans
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Date: February 28, 2012 01:59PM
Viva la France! Wrote:
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Best comeback I've seen today. LOL! :)
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> You shouldn't say that about Sarkozy!
Best comeback I've seen today. LOL! :)
Re: Obama Picking Up Women Voters and Economy Improving
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I disagree
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Date: February 28, 2012 02:03PM
Poppin' Jay Fox Wrote:
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> I do agree that women and men with high levels of
> estrogen are the main voting bloc of democrats.
> Making decisions on emotion.
Don't forget about the moocher class: Welfare recips and union slugs.
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> I do agree that women and men with high levels of
> estrogen are the main voting bloc of democrats.
> Making decisions on emotion.
Don't forget about the moocher class: Welfare recips and union slugs.
Re: Obama Picking Up Women Voters and Economy Improving
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Goodbye Poor People
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Date: February 28, 2012 04:35PM
I disagree Wrote:
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> > estrogen are the main voting bloc of democrats.
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> Don't forget about the moocher class: Welfare
> recips and union slugs.
Fuck the poor! They don't have money and are not Americans!
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> Poppin' Jay Fox Wrote:
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> > I do agree that women and men with high levels
> of
> > estrogen are the main voting bloc of democrats.
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> > Making decisions on emotion.
>
> Don't forget about the moocher class: Welfare
> recips and union slugs.
Fuck the poor! They don't have money and are not Americans!