McCain closes huge gap on key question for women

[bijou]

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.

In this latest poll, conducted Sept. 11-15, age remained a key determinant in response to the question about women’s concerns. Young women, ages 18-34, chose the Obama/Biden ticket as more empathetic to their needs, while women aged 35-64 went for McCain/Palin. Unlike black and Hispanic women, White women saw McCain and Palin as most understanding of their concerns.

About one in four women who supported Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in the primaries now said McCain and Palin have a better grasp of women’s needs than Obama and his running mate, Sen. Joe Biden.

The Lifetime poll reveals a diversity of women’s views on several issues, with many of those differences related to a respondent’s race, party identity, marital status and generation.

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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13714.html

Another demographic where McCain makes gains yet still remains behind in the main polls. But it does seem to suggest there are about
4 1/2 million PUMAs out there.

[Wretched Excess]

women voting for a ticket with a woman on it, wrong.

aftrican americans voting for a ticket with an african american on it, absolutely right, and it is simply unacceptable to even question it.

[DixieBelle]

While I do think there is a PUMA factor if you will, I think a lot of women (of all stripes) can relate to Palin. There will be some women who cross the aisle to spite the Oooooobama but when it comes down to it, most of women I talk to fall into two categories: frothing moonbats who's votes were never up for grabs or undecided/moderates who like Palin and felt like the Ooooobma team missed the mark in recent weeks. Teh Oooooobama grossly underestimated teh wymn factor 

[BlueStateSaint]

While I do think there is a PUMA factor if you will, I think a lot of women (of all stripes) can relate to Palin. There will be some women who cross the aisle to spite the Oooooobama but when it comes down to it, most of women I talk to fall into two categories: frothing moonbats who's votes were never up for grabs or undecided/moderates who like Palin and felt like the Ooooobma team missed the mark in recent weeks. Teh Oooooobama grossly underestimated teh wymn factor 

And Hillary will use the four most cruel words in the English language:

I told you so!

[DixieBelle]

I bet Billy Bob has been flying low in recent weeks. I would NOT want to be in that household