Mitt Romney has surged to a 4-percentage-point lead in 12 crucial swing states, largely because he has erased President Obama's lead among women voters, according to a USA Today/Gallup poll released Monday. The battle for women has been a major focus of both campaigns, and is expected to figure prominently in their closing arguments in Tuesday night's debate and in TV ads during the last three weeks before election day. As a group, women tend to wait longer than men to choose their candidates, which makes them — especially blue-collar "waitress moms" hit hard by the economy's troubles — a key swing vote. Women overwhelmingly backed Obama throughout the campaign, so why are they suddenly warming to Romney? Here, five theories:
1. Romney showed them he's not crazy
Romney's "humor and authority" in the first presidential debate changed everything, says Tim Stanley at Britain's Telegraph. His pledge to protect Social Security, Medicare, and financial regulation reassured them "that while he is a traditional Republican, he isn't crazy." Romney reinforced that image after stepping off the stage, by saying he has no plans to pursue federal anti-abortion legislation, making it harder for Obama to "portray Romney as an antediluvian conservative who would swap sex-ed classes for chastity belts." Obama might be able to change all that, says Digby atHullabaloo, if he points out that the real Mitt is all about "destroying Medicare, Medicaid, and calling half the country a bunch of dependent losers he doesn't have to care about."
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He can put them in binders.
ReplyDeleteOh yea, they're really "warming up" to him. Ask a woman.
ReplyDeleteThe myth is that obama ever had the "women's vote"
ReplyDeleteBinders full of women. Classy
ReplyDeleteI don't know why any self respecting woman would ever vote for obama. To him woman's issues means sex and nothing else. To him it's all about abortion,contraception and Planned Parenthood. Well I got news for obama-he may be able to get away with that with the 47% but alot of us woman are alot smarter and are current on the issues and problems this country is facing and that is what concern us.
ReplyDeleteTo him woman are nothing but sex objects who nothing else but that concerns them. It's gotten to the point where he's creeping people out with this sex obsession he has.
You need some serious help 4:28.
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ReplyDeleteYou need some serious help 4:28.
October 17, 2012 6:30 PM"
The democrats are the ones who need the help. Every other speaker at their convention talked on something sex related disguised as women issues.
It's quite clear that they are pandering to the "entitlement" crowd and the "Welfare Kings and Queens." Goal driven, well informed, successful woman who made good choices want to and will find a way to pay for these things themselves.
4:28 is a dude.
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