New CBS/NYT poll: Romney leads Obama among women

[cali]

(CNN) - Mitt Romney's support among registered voters who are women has grown and is slightly above President Barack Obama's, according to a poll released Monday.

The CBS News/New York Times poll shows Obama's support among female voters dropping five points over the last two months, from 49% to 44%. Romney is up 3 from 43% to 46% within that coveted demographic, according to the survey. The margin is still within the survey's sampling error, however.


Prior polling, including a mid-April CNN/ORC International poll, showed Obama ahead among women, with the CNN survey giving the president a 16-point advantage. That survey took place in the wake of a Democratic strategist and CNN contributor saying Romney's wife had "never worked a day in her life."

Monday's numbers fall within the survey's sampling error of plus or minus four percentage points.

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http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/14/poll-romney-up-obama-down-among-women/

Is it accurate? I don't know but I do think the President is fighting an uphill battle.

[Motown_Johnny]

1. This poll is also upside down on same sex marriage equality

Neither the numbers for women voters or for same sex marriage match any other recent poll.


I would question the methodology here.

[ananda]

2. BS

I don't believe it.

[madokie]

13. Not for one second do I believe it also

[lamp_shade]

3. See....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/125137715#post25

[deacon]

4. Candidate for biggest BS poll of 2012.

[jschurchin]

5. What did they do?

Stand outside a Catholic church and ask "Are you registered to vote? Who you going to vote for?"

[sarge43]

10. Better yet, focus on middle age Republican women who are Mormon.

Just about guarantees the result.

One off polls are useless. Further polling results can be manipulated by focus group and type and phrasing of the questions.

[asjr]

6. I don't believe that poll for one minute.

[nanabugg]

7. These polls should incite the base to get out there more. I doubt the poll but

it should be used as a rallying call.

[leveymg]

8. CBS/NYT pollsters oughta face fraud charges. Completely bogus.

[originalpckelly]

9. Sounds like there are methodology errors.

They used only the people who would take the poll again in their last sample, and it might skew it a certain way. People who might be more likely to repeat a poll might also be the people who have an axe to grind.

[Mc Mike]

11. Steal it first with b.s. polls, then you can steal it with electronic machines.

Pay off the media with $8 zillion dollars worth of attack ad expenditures, so they turn a blind eye.

+1 to your post, cal, but Mellon repug CBS and the Times don't mind lying, to help their repug friends.

If the election isn't close, they can't steal it.

[obamanut2012]

12. Maybe in Bizarro land

[Riley18]

14. This "poll" suggests that the fix is in

because if it is close they will steal again.

[spanone]

15. b u l l s h i t.

[pnwest]

16. doubt it

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

17. Stay calm.....

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/a-30000-foot-view-on-the-presidential-race/#more-30818

[Cali_Democrat]

18. Lots of info there. Uphill battle? Not so much.

[ProSense]

19. Here's

more: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002686811

CNN left out the details of the "poll."

Silly season.

[Autumn]

20. I smell Bullshit

no fucking way in hell does he lead Obama among women.

[GoCubsGo]

21. The stench is overwhelming.

They must have polled exclusively Mormon women.

[boxman15]

22. The poll's methodology is way off.

Please check out the thread on this poll in the Politics 2012 forum. Someone, I'm forgetting who I apologize, thoroughly debunks their polling method.

This is a bullshit poll. I don't know if it's meant to be that way or not, but it plays perfectly into the media's "HOLYSHITCLOSEELECTION!!!!!" meme.

[Mr.Turnip]

23. Yeah here's what I see, Obama is at 50% Approval in that poll.

and Presidents DON'T lose when they are at 50% or higher, they usually out perform their approval by a point or two.

the general way the poll is done makes no sense ether.

[jenmito]

24. When Joe Scarborough bragged about that poll this morning, Chuck Todd said he has serious doubts

about their methodology and accuracy.

[Ganja Ninja]

25. Of course he does.

I've said it before the media will have Romney ahead right up until 2 weeks before election day and then say it's too close to call.