Posted on 08/18/2008 12:52:05 PM PDT by pabianice
Early on in the general election, the McCain campaign announced to great fanfare that they were going to make an all-out effort to pursue the female vote and win over disaffected Hillary supporters.
Since then, Obama advisers have been very sensitive about stories saying he is struggling among women. And today, Dana Singiser, Obama's senior advisor for the women's vote, uncorked a detailed and extensive memo making the case that McCain's the candidate struggling with the female vote. It asks: "Does McCain have a Woman Problem?"
Despite his campaign's outreach efforts, McCain's attempt to bridge the gender gap has fallen flat. He fares worse among women than any presidential candidate since Bob Dole in 1996. In the August 13 Pew Poll, Obama holds a 51-38 lead among women over McCain. In the August Time Magazine poll, Obama leads 49-39. McCain's share of the women's vote is considerably below the 48% George W. Bush won in 2004 or the 43% he earned in 2000. Indeed, if McCain dips even a little, he is at risk of falling below Bob Dole's 38% share of women's vote in 1996, which is the lowest share of any major part candidate in the last 36 years. More than half the female electorate (53%) holds mostly positive views of Obama, while only 37% feel mostly favorable toward McCain.
Part of the idea here might be to try to get a "McCain's women problem" media drumbeat going, much as opinion-makers have been quick to jump all over Obama's alleged problems with working class voters and with Hillary supporters. (We're waiting...)
(Excerpt) Read more at tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com ...
"Does Obama have a Testosterone Problem?"
:-D Hit that softball!
Any bets that the major newspapers won’t print this as a headline word-for-word?
More than half the female electorate (53%) holds mostly positive views of Obama, while only 37% feel mostly favorable toward McCain.
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They also hold positive views of Oprah, too. What does that tell ya?
McCain has a problem with liberal/radical/feminist women. All Republicans do.
The rub here is that liberal/radical/feminist type women are not typical of all women.
From the women voting perspective, it will be:
Married vs. Single...and we all know how this should turn out.
The media has no problem with Obama's friendship with a terrorist, though--Bill Ayres.
Ok this headline made me think it was about a “woman” problem...You know, like Edwards has a woman problem...Gosh I don’t know any woman who’s voting for Obama. So maybe he has a woman problem
It tells me that fifty-three percent watch entirely too much television.
If you type John McCain in Google at the top they have. More games by the left
Related searches: john mccain affair
Hey, wait a minute! Obama is particpating in the politics of personal destruction!
Boy, could you imagine how Mr. Obama’s campaign would be screaming if the shoe were on the other foot.
OMG, you could hear the whining in Berlin!
Sure, Obambi is embraced by Oprah and friends for his skin color and his feeble estrogen-influenced foreign policy......
Could be wrong but I would hazard a guess that going after a 71 year old man for mistresses is digging in shallow soil, especially when his wife is worth about 200 mill and could buy a company of PIs to follow him around.
No, Obama has a woman problem. It is Michelle!
I can’t stand Oprah and listening to Obama at Saddleback was like nails on a chalkboard but then I’m a Conservative female.
McCain doesn’t have a problem with normal women, but he has a problem with biased liberal/socialist women like Andrea Mitchell and that Commie on Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski.
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If the women realized that obama will agree with Rangel to reinstitute the draft for their sons AND their daughters, they would think again before voting for the hOly One.
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