Exclusive: McCain closes huge gap on key question for women

[dennis4868]

Since picking Sarah Palin as his running mate, John McCain has obliterated what had been a 34-percentage-point deficit in a poll of likely women voters on the question of which candidate has a “better understanding of women and what is important” to them.

The two are now effectively tied, with McCain's 44 to 42 percentage lead within the margin of error of the most recent poll conducted by pollsters Kellyanne Conway and Celinda Lake for Lifetime Television. In Lifetime's July poll, women preferred Barack Obama on the same question by nearly three-to-one— 52 to 18 percent.

see more: http://news.yahoo.com/story//politico/20080922/pl_politico/13714

I don't get it. Because Palin has a vagina women vote for her? WTF? Why do people vote against their own interest?

So these women vote for her, McCain gets into office, and these same women no longer can choose to have an abortion, no equal pay, and their sons are being sent off to fight a war that has no real purpose other than to put money into the pockets of the likes of Halliburton. But they are happy because a female is VP.

I need to get a drink.....Graaaaaaaaahhhh!

[Newsjock]

1. A poll for *Lifetime Television*!?

Bwahahahaha.

[mediaman007]

2. After today, women might be intelligent enough to vote for

an economic candidate. I imagine that the poll was done the week after the RNC.

[anonymous171]

3. Is lifetime a good source for polling information?

If it is, then the Obama campaign needs to ask women if they would like to pay for their own rape kits if they are ever sexually assaulted.

[izzybeans]

7. Sure, if you're looking to do a census of fans of Valerie Bertonelli's "Bitter Harvest"

it's a story about a cancer victim.

I'm sure its a quality production. :)

That's the crowd that digs Palin. And they'll eat up her attempts to cry victim.

[Blue_In_AK]

4. Make SURE the story about the rape kits

gets out there to everyone you know. Sarah Palin is antiwoman.

[grannie4peace]

5. evidently, there are some dumb women here in the usa

:shrug:

[babylonsister]

6. What about women who don't watch or get Lifetime, including me?

Seems like very subjective polling to me. No, I don't believe it, not if one considers women who might actually consider the issues and vote based on them.

[RoadRage]

8. That number should die down this week.. with Rape-Kit Gate breaking in the MSM

I don't think that even white women like to pay for their own rape kits, or those of thier daughters. Just a guess though!

[Meshuga]

9. Could David Paul Kuhn from Politico be spinning things

This guy is the same who wrote an article claiming Obama did not ger a convention bounce on the same day that Obama hit 50% for the first time in the Gallup poll after the convention.