First, thanks for the ping! Been out of the loop a bit today as preparing for possible trouble with Issac. Really think FL panhandle area and AL,MS,LA will get the brunt but hope it isn't over a CAT 2!
As far as reports that “women tend to vote for the ‘rats’, I believe that is what the Media wants everyone to think and that is what they hope for! I find it hard to believe but maybe it is because I am a Conservative woman. AND even when I was a registered Demrat years ago, I was still conservative in my thinking! Hard to believe, right?
I will add that this coming election gives us all a clear choice, and women will no doubt turn out in droves. It is also my opinion that the women AND men who choose Obama in November will clearly be those who have done NO research, listen ONLY to Liberal Media, AND preally don't CARE that they know NOTHING about Obama!
It's pretty well known that in just about every general election contested between a Republican and a Democrat for any office anywhere in the country, the Democrat will do better among women than he/she will do among men. This is the so-called gender gap. It does not necessarily mean that the Democrat will win the majority of the women's vote, but the percentage of women voting for the Democrat will be greater than the percentage of men doing so.
The most common explanation given for the gender gap is that women in general have more of a vested interest in government handouts and thus agitate for the big government programs advocated by 'Rats more than men do. This statistically holds much more strongly for single women than it does for married women.