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To: JediJones

Before impugning integrity, why the heck don’t you check Gallup and the slew of articles and commentaries on Gingrich’s unbridgeable gender gap?

http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/gingrich-destroyed-by-gender-gap/

Bush beat Gore and Kerry with 10-12 points gender gap.
http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/research/topics/documents/GenderGapAdvisory04.pdf

A 25-point gender gap in FL and now a 39-point gender gap in the recent Gallup is of historic proportions and this puts Gingrich completely and irrevocably out of contention regardless of what happens on Tuesday.


31 posted on 02/25/2012 8:44:38 PM PST by Steelfish (ui)
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To: Steelfish
What your link shows me is I should have impugned your math more than your integrity. Unless you want to show me a poll where a mythical "39-point gender gap" exists for Newt. The quote about Bush/Gore from your link says there is a 10-point gender gap because 53% of men voted Bush while only 43% of women did. In the latest Gallup demographic data I can find (2/13-2/19), Newt has 15% from men and 12% from women, giving him a 3-POINT gender gap. You are going to have to provide further evidence for your 39-point gap claim. You seem to be badly misreading the data.

I will also add that solely focusing on the Florida results as in Dick Morris' article is just silly. Newt WON the women's vote in South Carolina as I recall. So you're taking a vote that occurred on one day in one state. It hardly defines the character of the entire race or what the general election will look like.

There has been a gender gap in every presidential election since 1980. In the 2000 election, women were 10 percentage points less likely than men to vote for George W. Bush (43% of women vs. 53% of men supported Bush); and 12 percentage points more likely than men to vote for Al Gore (54% of women vs. 42% of men supported Gore), according to the Voter News Service.

33 posted on 02/25/2012 9:04:17 PM PST by JediJones (Watch "Gingrich to Michigan: Change or Die" on YouTube. Best Speech Ever!)
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