Obama has moved into double-digit leads over McCain in two new polls of women voters

[Douglas Carpenter]

By Jill Lawrence, USA TODAY

link:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-06-11-womenvoters_N.htm

"WASHINGTON — Barack Obama has moved into double-digit leads over Republican John McCain in two new polls of women voters, suggesting he is drawing support from women who once backed Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Obama led McCain 51%-38% in Gallup polling of 2,263 registered female voters June 5-9. The 13-percentage-point lead among women was up from 5 points the previous week, before the Democratic nomination ended. Obama now matches Clinton's performance against McCain, Gallup said Wednesday.


The Gallup results mirrored Obama's 52%-39% lead among women in a Rasmussen Reports poll of 3,000 likely voters June 8-10. The polls' margins of error are +/— 2 to 3 percentage points. Clinton on June 4 signaled her intent to withdraw and officially suspended her campaign Saturday. Some of her supporters said they would never vote for Obama, and one man, Ed Hale, started a website for former Clinton supporters now backing McCain."

link:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-06-11-womenvoters_N.htm

[ingac70]

1. Of course he is...

Who with any sense ever believed those dittoheads posing as Democrats?

[Douglas Carpenter]

6. I think most of the people saying such things were deeply disappointed and

responding emotionally. This is hardly an unusual phenomena when people see a cause they gave a lot to and once believed was almost a certainty - fall apart before their eyes.

[cliffordu]

13. Yep.

[roguevalley]

20. I believe that the whole business was overblown. A lot of women

voted for a woman. Then, when that failed, they AS GOOD DEMOCRATS, will vote for the party's nominee. I don't think that the caterwalling a while back reflected the party generally. The
party generally will vote for the candidate chosen, including zillions of independents and
turned off Republicans. It was a smoke and mirrors thing, this huge idea that women would vote
for the woman or if losing, vote for McCain. This proves it. I give women more credit than
some.

[sufrommich]

24. My thoughts exactly.

:thumbsup:

[darkmaestro019]

2. I think it's that (Hillary voters coming over)

plus some of what's leaked about his first wife.

http://www.oliverwillis.com/index.php/2008/06/08/the-first-mrs-mccain/ in case anybody has somehow managed to miss it :puke:

I can't respect ANYONE who leaves someone they promised to love, honor, and cherish under circumstances like that, and I'm pretty sure it's not hard for most women to put themselves in her place.

All that on top and the see-you-next-tuesday and anti-choice noises McShame likes to make...and then to see Obama and the clear love and affection and respect between him and his lovely wife....

[TexasObserver]

4. Agreed. Positive results from Hillary's endorsement.

[Youphemism]

3. Rabid anti-abortion geezer w/trophy wife courts independent women...

...right after saying he couldn't, in good conscience, consider a VP who supports a woman's right to choose.

You'd swear McCain's strategists are Obama operatives.

[uponit7771]

11. lol

[cliffordu]

14. Hey - Keep that on the DL, M'kay??

[DesertRat]

5. This woman is not surprised

:party:

[Douglas Carpenter]

7. one little kick

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[democrat2thecore]

9. Great (and reassuring) news!!! -nt

[Douglas Carpenter]

12. indeed, and some of the media are still carrying on with the nonsense

speculating about Sen. Clinton's supporters staying at home or even voting for McCain

[uponit7771]

10. The guy left his first wife cause his first wife gained weight, that's slimey to me & I'm male. Dont

...know how any other females feel about that but that....not change most women i know can believe in.

[Douglas Carpenter]

15. one kick for the next shift

[Douglas Carpenter]

16. another kick for ...

[Douglas Carpenter]

17. one more kick

[Political Heretic]

18. Duh. :)

[BeyondGeography]

19. Yet another in a long list of reasons to thank God for women

We'll lose white men by double-digits and, if the deficit is close to ten points it'll be Obama in a landslide.

[27inCali]

21. what the hell is wrong with my fellow white males

c'mon guys, get with the program.

[potone]

27. Work on bringing them around.

I think white men will have a better chance of persuading other white men to support Obama than women will have. We will need their votes and I can't understand what men, especially young to middle-aged men see in McCain. He seems so out of touch with the country's needs.

[slinkerwink]

22. kicking for 'concerned' posters

[mrreowwr_kittty]

23. B...b...but MSNBC says he's behind in the crucial white suburban demographic

Guess they're going to be the Hardworking White Voters for the General.

[iconicgnom]

25. Of course Obama vs Clinton vs McCain gives different numbers than

either Obama vs McCain or Clinton vs McCain, when for certain one or the other of Obama or Clinton are out of the picture.

I think for quite awhile Republicans will be talking wistfully about "Obama Republicans". Trying to imagine ways to get them back without, like, getting a conscience and moving en masse from the dark side. Practically speaking, I'd like to see the exclusion of people like Bush, Cheney, Yoo, Gonzales, from mainstream US politics. In particular the way that Bush and McCain can look straight into the camera and assert flat out falsehoods, flat out fabrications, while at the same time pretending to the gravitas of POTUS - is a disgrace to the honor of the US. A country has plenty opportunity to make mistakes, to elect bad gov'ts, without having to resort to that extreme.

I think the Iraq war should be credited entirely to George W. Bush's dishonor, and his administration, in total comprehension of that dishonor including the lies told to get the US into it and the crime against humanity that followed. I don't expect justice. But by his own words McCain should be tied to that war as to an anchor roped to the ankles of a villain on the high seas in the 14th century. The Republicans should be nailed for this and I think the large majority of americans know this.

[Douglas Carpenter]

26. one more kick