Posted on 05/28/2012 6:57:30 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
PRINCETON, NJ -- U.S. veterans, about 13% of the adult population and consisting mostly of older men, support Mitt Romney over Barack Obama for president by 58% to 34%, while nonveterans give Obama a four-percentage-point edge.
These data, from an analysis of Gallup Daily tracking interviews conducted April 11-May 24, show that 24% of all adult men are veterans, compared with 2% of adult women.
Obama and Romney are tied overall at 46% apiece among all registered voters in this sample. Men give Romney an eight-point edge, while women opt for Obama over Romney by seven points. It turns out that the male skew for Romney is driven almost entirely by veterans. Romney leads by one point among nonveteran men, contrasted with the 28-point edge Romney receives among male veterans.
The small percentage of female veterans in the U.S., in contrast to their male counterparts, do not differ significantly in their presidential vote choice from the vast majority of women who are not veterans.
The proportion of U.S. men who are armed forces veterans rises dramatically among those who are 60 and older. The military draft was in force in the U.S. from shortly before the U.S. entry into World War II until the early 1970s. A majority of men now 70 to 89 served in the military, including almost three-quarters of those aged 80 to 89. Less than a fifth of men younger than 50 have served in the military. There is little variation in military service among women across these age groups.
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And I thought the last presidential election was a nightmare but noone in the establishment got the message. I heard Romney say he supports a strong military but I also know he will still have a form of socialized medicine. He said he would make changes to Ocare but never said he would not introduce some new govt healthcare.
Have a problem with Romney protesting in FAVOR of the war in Nam as he fled to France. I have more respect for the anti war protesters that went to Canada.
I am not happy with Romney but considering voting for him because I am praying the conservatives will hold his feet to the fire. Even Bush was too moderate for my liking and he could have done a lot more when the gop controlled congress.
My husband is USN RET CPO. Did 3 tours in Korea and 2 in Nam. My father ..USN Ret CPO and WW2 veteran..battle of the Midway. We are not happy with our choices and angry at the way the primaries went..but Obama? hard to comprehend
If I posted twice it was an accident. I don’t flood the board. What, now we can’t post pics? It doesn’t load slow for me with pics.
I asked the mods to remove the duplicate. If it bothered you, why didn’t you just ask them to remove it?
I wonder if anyone in the media will point out that Obama’s gender gap among Men is bigger than Romney’s gender gap among Women as a weekly talking point.
I’ve seen these “vets” for bamey boy....shameful...get your stinking pension and that is what you do to America....shameful....course, they don’t go for the likes of bamey UNTIL their sweet pension is all locked up....
same as govt workers....
we've gone down a bad road and I'm afraid the takers far outnumber the givers now....
not to choose IS to choose...
so bamey will welcome your vote...so will Holder and so will Mochele...so will the muzzies and so will the black panthers....
you are choosing bamey....enough said....
another bamey voter....its pathetic....
Thanks for your Post #100 to me. Makes me feel better; for real. Thanks again.
Real conservatives like Palin, Bachmann, Santorum, West and DeMint among others would be better off forming their own party instead of fighting a un-winnable battle with rinos ans democrats. But if not then I think Palin is the right person to challenge Romney in 2016.
You know what is funny? Rinos think we are all democrat trolls. Hilarious. We are super conservative so how can we be democrats?
Cherry, then I must be correct in describing you as:
....another Republican who wants the GOP to advocate and promote state-run health care, on-demand abortions, cap-and-trade eco-tyranny, activist judges, and the homosexual agenda.
After all, you're willing to vote for Romney. You'd better look at what you're voting FOR because six months into 2013, what you voted for is all that will count. If R wins, Obama would be forgotten. And you who voted for Romney would be wailing and whining, when Romney snubs conservatives and "graciously" welcomes "bi-partisan" cooperation with liberal Democrats and moderate Republicans to push his statist agenda, freezing out and neutralizing conservative opposition. Conservatives, many of whom voted "against" Obama, would watch helplessly as the REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT carried out the main agendas they "voted against" Obama for ... YOU would be wailing, "But we had no choice!"
And that would be a lie. You did, and you DO, have a choice: to vote so that whichever freedom-killer wins -- and they are BOTH freedom-killers -- goes into office as vulnerable and embattled as possible.
But actually, I'm more correct in describing you as someone who doesn't get basic math, as in -- a third party vote is NEUTRAL and will have zero influence on the outcome of the race between O and R. THAT IS SIMPLE MATH, dear.
It's pathetic that such simple math flies so far over your head.
You’re clearly a patriot, and I love a patriot. :^)
As I explained in my original post, lots of graphics don’t just post slowly for folks on dialup, they also jerk the page around as they post, so you can’t read the other posts. You can be looking at something halfway up/down the page, and poof, it disappears.
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