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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Pinging Buttaboom and Soul Seeker to post #40, courtesy of presidio9!
Just to keep things balanced...Hubba hubba! I'm a sucker for a guy with a high and tight haircut and a uniform.
Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you!! I love that picture of President Bush.
Sigh - my day is now complete.
John F Kerry....acromegalia meets meglomania
John F Kerry....acromegalia meets meglomania
Doesn't sound like Kerry's female base is exactly energized. (For an alternative, let me suggest to her post #40!)
Okay, prepare for all the pains who complain that it was that kind of talk that got Bill elected (ewwww by the way) but I don't care...W is hot and we should be able to say so and still hold some intellectual credibilty.
W is a man, with swagger, power and strength...much more attractive that a whipped lap dog and the person I want guarding my family.
Would type more, but can't seem to focus..flight suit and all..
By the way, bellygirl and Ann Coulter always get posted...where are the W pics?
"There's no greater aphrodisiac than money." -- Oscar Wilde
Yummy....taking that for a screen saver...
Oh my God..you are too funny and have expressed my thoughts as well! Can't stop giggling...should I also confess my thing for Rumsfeld????
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?
Women Know.
I actually heard a woman call a talk radio show in 2000 saying she was voting for Gore because he was soooo handsome! I'll just say my gag reflex was in good working order.
I think a new rule should be that the National Guard picture of Bush in #40 should be posted on every story on Rathergate. Hey, FNC always shows it -- why not?
Well, that explains why he went after Julia and Teresa, but . . .
How right you are.
I'm in Ireland, and my female friends aren't too plussed about international politics. We were out for a while last night, and pics of Dubya in his national guard days showed up on the TV in the corner.
Two of them turned to me and said: 'Jaysis, George Bush was a bit of alright as a young fella'. ;-)
By the way, bellygirl and Ann Coulter always get posted...
Musn't forget everybody's favorite Florida Congresswoman...
I went to college in Cork...love it there..and W is shaggable
I don't suppose they had any comments on young John F'n Kerry in his 1971 testimony? Just by way of comparison, of course.
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