Posted on 12/03/2007 2:50:35 PM PST by wagglebee
Des Moines, IA (LifeNews.com) -- A new poll in Iowa not only shows Hillary Clinton losing support to Barack Oabama but it shows female Democrats prefer the pro-abortion Illinois senator over Clinton. The poll results are surprising given the fact that Emily's List, the wealthiest pro-abortion group in the nation, launched a major election effort on her behalf.
As LifeNews.com twice reported, Emily's List started a campaign last month to rally women voters in Iowa around Clinton.
Emily's List unveiled a new web site and promoted it with online via ads on leading search engines and on web sites women view such as those on yoga or health issues.
But a new Des Moines Register poll shows the campaign apparently isn't working.
Barack Obama has pulled ahead in the Iowa Democratic caucus and leads for the first time in the Register's poll with the support of 28 percent of Democrats, up from 22 percent in October.
Clinton gets the support of 25 percent, down four percent from her 29 percent showing before the Emily's List campaign began.
Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, who also backs abortion, stayed at 23 percent in both Register surveys.
Surprisingly, the telephone survey of 500 likely Democratic caucusgoers found Obama leads with support from 31 percent of women likely attend the caucuses, compared to 26 percent for Clinton.
Before Emily's List undertook its campaign on her behalf, Clinton was the preferred candidate of 34 percent of women caucusgoers, compared to 21 percent for Obama.
That's a significant change considering women represent 60 percent of likely caucusgoers in Iowa.
Obama also leads with younger voters -- a group Emily's List targeted in order to get new pro-abortion activists to vote in the caucuses on Clinton's behalf.
He enjoys the support of 48 percent of Democrats under 35 years old while Clinton has the backing of only 19 percent.
Obama leads among first-time caucusgoers and those who say they definitely will attend the caucuses.
"We are playing in Iowa as a pro-Hillary group,” Emily's List spokeswoman Maren Hesla told Politico as the campaign unfolded. “That is what our focus is on here.”
"It will be substantial and you won't be able to escape it," Hesla said of the pro-abortion group's efforts -- though it appears their pro-abortion effort to rally Clinton supporters has fallen on deaf ears.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Wait til they read Obama’s votes on abortion.
They called my wife the other day. Kind of wish I had been home to hear what she said. When I walked in, the dog was going crazy (like when he does when my bride yells), and my wife was laughing.
I suspect the caller did not get a nice reception.
Have you ever looked into his “church”? It is nuttier than a year old fruit cake.
There are secular “churches” like that in every city in the country. They claim to be Christians, but they are actually nothing more than new age, anything goes Kumbaya singers.
Yes. According to one article I read, the chief reason why Obama voted three times against the born alive infant protection act is that his church owns a hospital where they practice abortion, right up to babies who are born alive and then set aside to die. There’s big money in late term abortions.
To me, that’s even worse than their racist views.
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