Posted on 09/16/2004 7:46:12 AM PDT by presidio9
According to Time magazine's latest poll, the president has retained the "seismic voter shift" he earned during the Republican convention. He continues to lead John Kerry by eleven points among likely voters. Kerry's support has eroded in every group, and "most notably among women," as Time points out. "In early August, females gave Kerry a sizable lead over Bush: 50 to 36 percent. Now, women favor Bush over Kerry by 45 to 44 percent. Even in Florida, Kerry's 22 percent lead among women has been halved in the last few weeks. In the last presidential election, Gore won women's votes 54 to 42 percent.
Why is this so important? Well, for the last 40 years more women have voted in presidential elections than men. For the last 24 years, the percentage of eligible women voters who turned out to elect the president surpassed the percentage of men. In some key states — such as Florida and Ohio — the percentage of women voters was as high as 54 percent in the 2000 election. That's why both parties are reaching out right now to undecided women voters.
By the way, the gender gap has never been quite the chasm the media has loved to describe. Up until 1980 women tended to vote like the men in their lives. If anything, they tended to be a bit more conservative. But in 1980 Eleanor Smeal, a political scientist who became president of the National Organization for Women, noticed that while more women voted for Reagan than for Carter, a higher percentage of men voted for the Republican candidate. NOW met with the Democratic National Committee to highlight what they labeled "Reagan's Female Problem," and began to effectively promote to the media another new difference between men and women.
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Everyone should keep showing those pictures of Bush in the National Guard. I mean, he's attractive now, but those pictures -- talk about a babe magnet! IMHO, of course.
I am mystified by the meaning of the word "even" in this sentence.
(steely)
I agree, GWB was and is a babe.
As far as JF'nK goes, I find Fat Bastard from the Austin Powers movies more appealing visually and verbally. That's how horrible I think JF'n K is!
The only thing JFK attracts is flies.
Wheweeeeooww,both of those men were kwhapped hard,and I mean hard with the ugly fairy's club. man...
Thank you!
What self-respecting woman wants to vote for a man who lives off the money of a woman who lives off the money of her dead husband?
(P.S. Color me cynical, but I am beginning to doubt Teresa's story that she hadn't known about Heinz's fortune at the time she met him.)
I live in NY state and my d-i-l works at a daycare. All the women there are voting for GW. They can't stand Kerry. My d-i-l came from a different state and never bothered to register to vote here. This year she registered and will vote. For Bush.
How did I reach a point where I think of the President as a hottie? It just feels so dirty (not that that's a bad thing) - he's the same age as my dad.
I love that picture. That's what MEN look like, down here.
Even the dowagers in Florida are beginning to develop an intense dislike for that gigolo.
No kiddin'. Even his own wife doesn't appear to be attracted to him.
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