Posted on 09/01/2011 9:18:42 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
CNSNews.com) - Barack Obama defeated Sen. John McCain 56 percent to 43 percent among female voters in the 2008 presidential election, according to the network exit poll, and Obama’s job performance as president won the support of 70 percent of women early in his tenure.
But Gallup polling last week showed that only 41 percent of women now say they approve of the way Obama is handling his job as president. That is an all-time low--down from the previous low of 43 percent, which is what Obama’s approval had been among women in each of the previous three weeks.
Obama’s approval has dropped 11 points among women over the past three months. In the last week of May, according to the Gallup poll, the president’s approval among females was at 52 percent.
Obama’s approval among women peaked at 70 percent in the week of Jan. 26-Feb. 1, 2009, his first full week in office.
Even women are capable of learning and correcting unsound thinking. Flag Art liked this Like ReplyReply John 8 minutes ago
Saw it coming, just wish more would see what a disaster this guy has been. Flag 4 people liked this. Like ReplyReply Bill Monday 9 minutes ago
There must be a genetic problem amongst some women -- the 41% who still believe in this Socialist, for example! Flag tom cook and 4 more liked this Like ReplyReply 10010101001 11 minutes ago
The other 59% must be racists. Flag 4 people liked this. Like ReplyReply No_One_Important 29 minutes ago
So, Obama is going to propose more spending, what the nation doesn't want.
And theeeeeeeen try to blame the republicans for him not getting more of what we don't want.
That's Obama's strategy?
Really?
Seriously?
This guy is delusional. . . . .
If this is his strategy, 2012 is going to be a cakewalk.
It won't be "will a republican win?" It will be "which republican will win?"
Gumbey and Pokey could beat this guy. . .and I'd walk door to door for Gumbey and Pokey! Flag 8 people liked this. Like ReplyReply Gary 30 minutes ago
Can you spell "landslide"? Flag No_One_Important and 8 more liked this Like ReplyReply Pattskean 35 minutes ago
To start a real recovery requires ideas that are garlic to this vampire sucking life out of the economy. Obama stands in the way. The best thing he can do for the USA is to announce his resignation, and Biden's immediate retirement on the 8th. Flag No_One_Important and 14 more liked this Like ReplyReply AdaMo 45 minutes ago
I suppose I live on the wrong side of town because I don't know one female who supports the idiotic policies of Obozo! He needs help! Where's Jeremiah Wright? Where's Oprah? Flag No_One_Important and 13 more liked this Like ReplyReply No_One_Important 38 minutes ago in reply to AdaMo
Oprah said she wouldn't endorse anyone in this upcoming race, even Obama. (Said that 2 days ago.)
Yep. . she's not even supporting Bozo Obama anymore. . . . Flag 9 people liked this. Like ReplyReply Mountainman4103 46 minutes ago
Just like a liberal woman,,,,,get a good S C r e w ing, and they still complain. Feel sorry for ya O bummer Flag No_One_Important and 4 more liked this Like ReplyReply Roy 47 minutes ago
Hey Obama - Here's your teleprompter text for next weeks congressional address: "I do not believe that I should devote an hour or a day of my time to any personal partisan causes or to any duties other than the awesome duties of this office -- the Presidency of your country. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President." Flag No_One_Important and 18 more liked this Like ReplyReply Chasha 49 minutes ago
For God's sake and the good of the country, if you have one ounce of patriotism, PLEASE pull an LBJ and resign!!! You've done enough damage. Flag No_One_Important and 23 more liked this Like ReplyReply tallmonkeygrass 52 minutes ago
Add one more to this list. I'm a woman who voted FOR obama and my fondest wish is that I could vote AGAINST him right now! I'm sick and tired of people excusing him with " he doesn't understand"or " is helpless" or "just isn't ready for the job". I think he was hand picked to destroy this country and the people, black/white/brown/yellow/red do NOT matter to this evil man. Yes, EVIL. Flag No_One_Important and 23 more liked this Like ReplyReply Bryan A 54 minutes ago
Thank you, Barack Obama, for demonstrating that Blacks and Whites can be equally corrupt and incompetent Presidents. Flag tom cook and 18 more liked this Like ReplyReply JACK SEELEY 56 minutes ago
FAILED PRESIDENT WALKING Flag No_One_Important and 16 more liked this Like ReplyReply CowboyUp 57 minutes ago
Though it started before hussein was elected, my younger sister was apolitical until her new washing machine and dishwasher didn't do their jobs even after time wasting double and triple cycles, due to government regulation. Once they got her attention, she started noticing all the other ways they are making her life worse, and her children's lives and future uncertain. What's worse for the democrats is that she's looking into the details, the how and why, she's smart, and now that quiet and laid back woman is politically active and ticked off. I learned early not to push her to that point, now the democrats are going to learn better.
For decades, polls have shown that women as a group vote differently than men. Without the women’s vote, Republicans would have swept every presidential race but one between 1968 and 2004.
The gender gap exists on various issues. The major one is the issue of smaller government and lower taxes, which is a much higher priority for men than for women. This is seen in divergent attitudes held by men and women on many separate issues. Women were much more opposed to the 1996 federal welfare reforms, which mandated time limits for receiving welfare and imposed some work requirements on welfare recipients. Women are also more supportive of Medicare, Social Security and educational expenditures.
Studies show that women are generally more risk averse than men. Possibly, this is why they are more supportive of government programs to ensure against certain risks in life. Women’s average incomes are also slightly lower and less likely to vary over time, which gives single women an incentive to prefer more progressive income taxes. Once women become married, however, they bear a greater share of taxes through their husbands’ relatively higher income. In that circumstance, women’s support for high taxes understandably declines.
Marriage also provides an economic explanation for men and women to prefer different policies. Because women generally shoulder most of the child-rearing responsibilities, married men are more likely to acquire marketable skills that help them earn money outside the household. If a man gets divorced, he still retains these skills. But if a woman gets divorced, she is unable to recoup her investment in running the household. Hence, single women who believe they may marry in the future, as well as married women who most fear divorce, look to the government as a form of protection against this risk from a possible divorce: a more progressive tax system and other government transfers of wealth from rich to poor.
The more certain a woman is that she doesn’t risk divorce, the more likely she is to oppose government transfers.
Has it always been this way? Can women’s suffrage in the late 19th and early 20th century thus help explain the growth of government? While the timing of the two events is suggestive, other changes during this time could have played a role. For example, some argue that Americans became more supportive of bigger government due to the success of widespread economic regulations imposed during World War I.
A good way to analyze the direct effect of women’s suffrage on the growth of government is to study how each of the 48 state governments expanded after women obtained the right to vote. Women’s suffrage was first granted in western states with relatively few women — Wyoming (1869), Utah (1870), Colorado (1893) and Idaho (1896). Women could vote in 29 states before women’s suffrage was achieved nationwide in 1920 with the adoption of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution.
If women’s suffrage increased government, our analysis should show a few definite indicators. First, women’s suffrage would have a bigger impact on government spending and taxes in states with a greater percentage of women. And secondly, the size of government in western states should steadily expand as women comprise an increasing share of their population.
Even after accounting for a range of other factors — such as industrialization, urbanization, education and income — the impact of granting of women’s suffrage on per-capita state government expenditures and revenue was startling. Per capita state government spending after accounting for inflation had been flat or falling during the 10 years before women began voting. But state governments started expanding the first year after women voted and continued growing until within 11 years real per capita spending had more than doubled. The increase in government spending and revenue started immediately after women started voting.
Yet, as suggestive as these facts are, we must still consider whether women’s suffrage itself caused the growth in government, or did the government expand due to some political or social change that accompanied women’s suffrage?
Fortunately, there was a unique aspect of women’s suffrage that allows us to answer this question: Of the 19 states that had not passed women’s suffrage before the approval of the 19th Amendment, nine approved the amendment, while the other 12 had suffrage imposed on them. If some unknown factor caused both a desire for larger government and women’s suffrage, then government should have only grown in states that voluntarily adopted suffrage. This, however, is not the case: After approving women’s suffrage, a similar growth in government was seen in both groups of states.
http://johnrlott.tripod.com/op-eds/WashTimesWomensSuff112707.html
And Peggy “the Moocher” Joseph:
“Because I never thought this day would ever happen. I won’t have to worry ‘bout putting gas in my car. I won’t have to worry ‘bout paying my mortgage. You know. If I help him, he’s gonna help me.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P36x8rTb3jI
lame duck president.
A good chunk of the 41% of the women who still support this dope do so because they think the Republicans are too “harsh” and the Dems are more “caring.”
For myself,
his approval ratings can NEVER go low enough.
Should be 14 % .
If you’re robbing Peter to pay Paul, you can always count on Paul to back you in the polls. Even if he thinks you’re a moron.
They are realizing that he’s light in the loafers and not “dreamy” like the media were trying so hard to make him out to be?
The scary one in all those comments is:
“GO HILLARY
And I’m a republican.” by gamecrunchforsale
Because if women were stupid enough in large percentages to vote for Obama they’re stupid enough to vote for Hillary.
“The scary one in all those comments is: “GO HILLARY””
Frankly, if Hillary had been elected, she wouldn’t have been ANYWHERE near as incompetent as the illegal alien coke-dealer president has been.
EVIL? perhaps...
But not incompetent.
50% of women disapprove of Obozo. What I want to know is what the hell is wrong with the 41% who support this jackwagon.
59% of women disapprove of Obozo. What I want to know is what the hell is wrong with the 41% who support this jackwagon.
A reason why Republicans or anyone else for that matter should support people getting married.
I know there are exceptions, but if you go to a TEA party rally, while many of the women there are getting on in years, you can see much beauty.
Their inner souls are 100% beautiful and the visible external is 100% better than a random group of liberal women.
Think congress critters: debbie watermouth shultz vs Michelle Bachmann.
I hear that women are buying guns in record numbers, too.
This makes sense because if there is an economic collapse, certain feral men will be stalking women and not just looking for money either.
Debbie looks like a rodent.
Back when I was a college freshman and was sort of conservative but really not sure about party politics (plus the Democrats had their share of patriots and the Republicans their share of cloistered socialists), I attended both Young Democrats and College Republicans.
The former featured mostly strident and angry young women, the later mostly the nice and lovely type. I didn't realize it at the time, but the hippie cancer was well on their way to complete takeover of the Democrats.
“Frankly, if Hillary had been elected, she wouldn’t have been ANYWHERE near as incompetent as the illegal alien coke-dealer president has been.
EVIL? perhaps...
But not incompetent.”
Well, this is true. During the Clinton years I made enough on the stock market to buy our house, and it’s a nice one. Do wish for that again.
Not sure she wouldn’t go ‘euro’ on us though.
That is because Oprah isn’t in national syndication anymore telling the sheep how great Øbama is.
That is a tough call. Which is better? Are we lucky to have the incompetent anti-American communist that SEIU, ACORN, and dead voters stuck us with, or would we be better off with the power-hungry socialist who could have pushed a whole lot more destructive programs through the system?
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