What?
Just for starters of course...
Posted on 09/29/2004 6:46:14 PM PDT by NCjim
Gender gaps in battleground states are some of the widest ever seen in presidential elections, underscoring the need for Thursday night's debate to speak directly to women - the largest voting bloc and a potential key to winning the election, political analysts said Wednesday.
The first presidential debate will cover foreign policy and recent polls show that women rank President Bush as stronger on national security.
But the Bush administration's pre-emptive strike, go-it-alone policy in Iraq is worrisome to women, said national pollster John Russonello, who has worked primarily for Democratic candidates.
"Women have been more dovish than men right from the beginning of the war on Iraq," he said.
For John Kerry, who up until recently has tried to stress domestic issues - where he ranks higher with women - the debate means presenting himself as a capable commander-in-chief, Russonello said.
"The Kerry vote among women so far has been driven by domestic issues, but for him to close on those issues, he can't get there until he makes himself acceptable on the security issues," he said.
Debbie Walsh, director of Rutgers University Center for American Women and Politics, said Bush has done well by connecting the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq with new freedoms for women throughout the world.
Kerry likely would need to stress that making the world safer through coalition building is what will strengthen homeland security, she said.
Walsh said Kerry also should expand the foreign policy topic to include jobs and out-sourcing - areas where women have shown particular concern.
Polls taken this month in key states such as Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico and Ohio have shown that women support Kerry over Bush by a margin of 12 to 27 percentage points.
It is significant because women comprise the greatest number of swing voters and they vote in larger numbers than men, Walsh said.
Eleanor Smeal, director of the Feminist Majority, pointed out that Al Gore had an 11 percentage point "gender gap" nationwide in 2000 - then the largest such gap seen in presidential elections. The edge among women voters won Gore 16 crucial states, offsetting the strength that Bush had with male voters, she said.
Well I hate to break this to the Kerry team but Bush has closed the gender gap with women and widened it with men. Gonna be a long night for Jhengis Johnny.
A dem pollsters wishful thinking.
Only joshin' Ladies...
Um.....yeah.
Then why is Bush almost tied with women in the polls?
Last I looked, there was a 2 point "gender gap" for Kerry amongst women in Minnesota (46-44), and a 10 point gender gap for Bush over Kerry with men (54-44). This article is pure crap.
Only natural that they quote Eleanor "Inequities of Power" Smeal.
Polls taken this MONTH? What is today the 30th!
so they are saying in the past 30 days these polls were taken.
Now that is hot off the presses!
Not THIS woman!! I want those Marines in Fallujah, Najaf, Samara and Baghdad to GET SOME!!
W Stands for Women!
I wanted to repeat that. Women need to be reminded that these terrorists invaded a school, took the children and the parents hostage, and then shot the kids as they were escaping.
After Action Report Laura Bush Speaking in Salem, OR, 09-28-04
I saw a little of the Oprah show while I was at the health club. The whole show was devoted to getting women to vote. The segment that I saw was with Cameron Diaz and the things that she was saying were so outrageous that I couldn't believe it. She started out by telling the women that voting is so important if they aren't happy with the way things in this country are going, if they aren't happy with their neighborhoods and their lives because things could get much worse, and they have been worse, especially for Blacks who were persecuted and even lynched (added by Oprah. Then Diaz went on to say that one of the biggest things that women had to lose was control of their own bodies and that if they didn't want to be raped they had better vote. (That of course is a synopsis)
"terrorists invaded a school, took the children and the
parents hostage, and then shot the kids as they were escaping."
Don't forget the part about not giving them any water so that they had to drink their own urine. Or the fact that mothers had to chose between leaving with their infant and leaving other children with the terrorists or not leaving at all. Or the fact that little girls were raped.
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