Posted on 04/16/2012 4:41:23 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
(CNN) - President Barack Obama holds a nine-point lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney thanks in part to the perception that the president is more likeable and more in touch with the problems facing women and middle class Americans, according to a new national poll.
A CNN/ORC International poll released Monday also indicates a large gender gap that benefits Obama, but the public is divided on which candidate can best jump-start the economy.
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If America reelects thid DAN, then we are all in deep doo doo
If America reelects this DAN, then we are all in deep doo doo
The Founders did not give the women the right to vote, the 19th. Amendment did in Aug 18th, 1920.
The founders were seldom wrong.
Guess I am just lucky.../s
Yep..
By the time the calls are made on the east coast and Central time zone, this will be a done deal... Obama will have gotten his 270. Romney is simply the preferred lamb led to slaughter.
This is the first candidate I can remember who literally has no discernible base of support. That`s the payback for Romney`s being all over the political map on just about every issue. Bob Dole at least had senior citizens and veterans.
It`s amazing to think just a few months ago, this was regarded as a winnable election...
He’s certainly keeping the debt regime going longer for “middle class Americans” (most of them dependent on government for incomes).
So you don't believe actual facts? This "gender gap thing" has held true to the Democrats benefit for a very long time now. From Wikipedia:
In 1996 Bill Clinton raked in 11 percentage points more women than men, 54% of all women and 43% of all men voted for Clinton. The only other president to get a higher women vote was Barack Obama with 56%.[3] This gap has serious significance. Bill Clinton won with 49.2% of the popular vote or 47 million votes. Fifty-four percent of all women voters voted for Bill Clinton. While men were split 43% Clinton, 44% Dole and 10% Perot. The Clinton – Dole divide was insignificant among men, only 1 percentage point. However among women that gap is 54% of women voting for Clinton to 38% of women voting for Dole. In terms of votes that is 11 million votes. Bill Clinton defeated Bob Dole with just over 8 million votes.
Women also favored Al Gore to Bush by 11 points and John Kerry to Bush by 3 points.
Were it not for women voters, Obama would have defeated McCain by only 1%.
So yeah, there is a very significant gender gap and it is made even worse by the fact that more women vote than men.
This poll is a laugh riot. No one believes it. Even CNN. Especially CNN.
Wrong. Willard is ahead in both the recent Rasmussen and Gallup polls. Those are both more likely to be accurate because their sample is made up of likely and registered voters rather than "adults".
And the GOP is going to get slaughtered in Nov because of it.
The election is probably going to be very close. I agree Romney is the underdog, but the economy is not in good shape and that alone gives Mitt a decent shot at winning.
Santorum 2012
Welcome to Tuesday of last week, Santorum has already dropped out. He is not going to be the nominee.
Did they publish the politcal demographics of the poll?
For the CNN one I don’t know. I believe the Rasmussen, Gallup and Fox polls that showed Willard ahead had that information.
I think the big difference is the voter sample. Likely and registered voter screens tend to benefit the Republican candidate. “Adults” tends to capture a lot of young people and minorities who default to the Democrat offering freebies, but rarely actually find their way to the polling station.
The RCP average has Hussein up 3.2% over Romney today which sounds reasonably accurate to me. The CNN poll looks like an outlier, but it is not hard for me to believe that Obama may be leading narrowly.
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I believe you have captured the essence of this election. If Obama is repudiated, then “tomorrow is another day.” If Obama is re-elected, there will not be a tomorrow, recognizable to the averge American. “
Hear, hear.
I saw a comment on another thread, where the poll favored Romney over Obama.
A FReeper actually commented that it was bad news, and added “No Romney, no how.” I kid you not. As if he thinks FR’s stated mission is now to cheer on the America-hating, whitey-hating, missile-defense-eliminating Marxist.
Sick and anti-American.
“Heck, some people even like lizards, rats, spiders and snakes?”
Those creatures are far more honest than either BHO2 or Romney.
That leaves me with some questions:
1. How can such women be soooo stupid?
2. What do they see in such a wimp?
3. WHY the heck aren’t more MEN voting?
I saw “2012” Obama stickers on 4 different cars today. All were driven by women and 3 of the 4 were non-Caucasian.
1. How can such women be soooo stupid?
2. What do they see in such a wimp?
3. WHY the heck aren’t more MEN voting?
Well you are the woman here, so you tell me ;)
I think most studies show pretty conclusively it is because women tend to vote on emotion and men tend to vote on logic. The Democrats specialize in appeals to emotion. The average voter, men and women both, don't know much about specifics. Arguing that we as a nation should spend more on education, healthcare, various social programs, etc is just a very appealing to women. Men tend to look at the numbers and ask "does the program work". Women tend, for whatever reason, to be more receptive to the argument that we should spend more on these things no matter what (or that it is simply good enough that we keep trying no matter how wasteful).
The woman's vote is absolutely critical for Democrats. They need about 55-60% to win an election. Hence the made up "war on women". Sadly though, that stuff tends to work and it is the reason why the Democrats run this same scare tactic every election cycle.
Face it SumProVita, it is your gender that is wrecking everything and giving us all these liberal Democrats! ;) Joking, joking. Republicans really do just need to find a better away to appeal to women. I would suggest a focus on family security - maybe emphasize things that conservatives believe strongly anyway such as a strong military to defend our children, law and order criminal justice policies to keep criminals off the streets, etc.
We need your input on this stuff :)
Logic needs to be applied to the situation. Like it or not, Romney is going to be the GOP POTUS nominee. That’s a fact, not debatable or open to interpretation. Is he Ronald Reagan? God, NO! Personally, do I like him? NO! But, it’s either him or Obama. Writing in “Harvey the Rabbit” or voting “Constitution Party” isn’t going to do anything more than allowing Obama to win again.
And if folks hate him now, just think of what he’ll be like in a lame-duck term.
But remember folks, Newt Gingrich is right out because women don’t like him!
/sarc
But remember folks, Newt Gingrich is right out because women don’t like him!
/sarc
I am in Northern Virginia which was once reasonably conservative and is now pretty much the deep blue area of the state. Sadly as government and government contractors are here, it is a highly transient area with LOTS of jobs. I find most of the escapees from failed Democrat areas tend to migrate here and go right on voting for all the leftists that destroyed their own localities and states. These people simply haven't learned a thing. To them it is just a big mystery why their "progressive" utopias crumbled to the point they had to leave to find work in Virginia.
Anyway, the Obama/Biden stickers are on cars all over the place here. I'd say around 75% of the ones I see are on vehicles women are driving - with all races accounted for. The average Caucasian women here is definitely a likely Obama supporter. No question about it. I hate that this is true, but it is what it is.
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