Polls Show Voters Split Along Gender Lines

PBS ^ | October 2, 2012 | Christina Bellantoni and Terence Burlij

[ConservativeStatement]

On the eve of the first presidential debate, a pair of new national polls find President Obama and Mitt Romney locked in a close race with support for the two candidates divided sharply along gender lines.

The president leads Romney, 49 percent to 45 percent, among likely voters in a Quinnipiac University survey released Tuesday, buoyed by an 18-point advantage, 56 percent to 38 percent, among women. Romney has a 10-point lead among men, 52 percent to 42 percent. The poll has a margin of error of plus-or-minus 2.2 percent.

[ConservativeStatement]

The "president" with a lower case "p." Chris Matthews likely considers that a code word.

[ETL]

"The president leads Romney, 49 percent to 45 percent, among likely voters in a Quinnipiac University survey released Tuesday, buoyed by an 18-point advantage, 56 percent to 38 percent, among women."

Perhaps we should consider taking away women's right to vote. (KIDDING! sort of...) :)

[ConservativeStatement]

Some women will gravitate towards a pansy because it emboldens them; hence, the support for Obama. But males voting for him? Gays, union workers, people with trust funds.... and that could be it.

[txrefugee]

Single women too ugly or too “liberated” to have a husband, now need the government to take care of them. That turned out well.....

[ConservativeStatement]

[LibLieSlayer]

pRESIDENT pU$$Y! We tax payers are paying for these lies just like we do when obama speaks.

LLS

[NKP_Vet]

All these liberal polls assume most women are for murdering their children, well they’re not. Most women are more concerned with putting food on the table for their families, and Romney will get their support. Obamagabe will lose this election and these shrewed polls and the liberal media will have some splaining to do.

[ConservativeStatement]

In 2008, some Dems tried to press the issue that a vote for McCain would ensure a military draft. In 2012, I was at a function and was stunned to hear a woman say she voted for Obama because she was “opposed to a military draft.” I questioned her and she truly believed McCain and the GOP would have a draft because she heard “something about it.” She said she was undecided about this election.

[OneWingedShark]

Perhaps we should consider taking away women's right to vote. (KIDDING! sort of...) :)

Funny you should mention that; as politically incorrect as it is, I believe women's suffrage is much to blame for our current state of affairs WRT welfare. Before women's suffrage men voted as heads-of-households, that is for the family, [anyone who claims that this disenfranchised women has never seen a husband and wife interact]... but with women's suffrage voting became individual-centered rather than family-centered. Women are also somewhat predisposed to go with "safety" rather than risk, so they as-a-group tend[ed] to be for welfare-type programs.

[LibLieSlayer]

America is full of people with IQ’s below 80.

LLS

[apillar]

Perhaps we should consider taking away women's right to vote. (KIDDING! sort of...) :)

Actually you can trace the explosion of the welfare state back to women getting the right to vote. If I recall, before then the only thing even resembling welfare was a small government payout to the widows of Civil War soldiers. I not sure if it has to do with women's "mothering instinct" or what, but they seem to be much more accepting of socialism in the form of big government and social spending than men. (Of course I'm speaking in general terms, I know there are many conservative women who don't fit the profile).

[ScottinVA]

The one on the left looks like a Kennedy male. Well... so does the one on the right.

Gawd, libs are fugly.

[ShovelThemOut]

What about the effect the Sept. 11 riots in Cairo and the death of the Libyan ambassador have had in the minds of the SOCCER MOMS?

WHERE ARE THE SOCCER MOMS? Why isn’t Fox out there finding them and interviewing them???

This must be a real phenomenon, and you can’t tell me that mothers who thought W would be better keeping their kids safe than Kerry back in 2004 are now fooled into believing Zero is the guy to fight terrorism.

[Tanniker Smith]

The "president" with a lower case "p." Chris Matthews likely considers that a code word.

He can complain if he wants to, but that's correctly stylistically. Lowercase 'p' if used as a noun and not as a title followed by the name, or as part of the full title "President of the United States".

[ConservativeStatement]

Out of curiosity, I came across this from The Chicago Manual of Style:

http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/CMS_FAQ/Capitalization/Capitalization19.html

The rule, surprising to me, seems to suggest the usage of lower case even prior to a name but leaves the door open to a particular editing practice.

[Beagle8U]

The biggest difference is that women think differently than men, not in just their opinions, but in the way their brains work.

Most hate math and have difficulty with ‘story problems’. Well, 99% of economics is exactly that, story problem math.

They are great at seeing fine detail, but not very interested in the details of things they can't see in front of them, like economic projections.

Most would rather watch soap operas than news.

[Uncle Miltie]

The Gender Gap is a lie.

What you have is a Marriage Gap.

Married Women support Romney.

Unmarried Women support 0bama, their Sugar Daddy.

The Weaker Sex needs someone to rely upon; and for unmarried Women, it’s The State.

[Niteranger68]

I suspect it's a bunch of fag hags with peni$ envy.

[Tanniker Smith]

I’ll have to check it out. Last publisher I worked with (many years ago) used a different style code, not Chicago. I dont remember which. I also used to refer to my very worn copy of The Elements of Stle”.

[Tanniker Smith]

Additionally, I made a big deal of always using capital “P” back in the days of my Bill Clinton Joke-of-the-Day Page, even when just using the noun but you understood whom I meant. I think I made a bigger deal out of it the day I decided to stop as he’d gone too far for me about something. (I had been trying to respect the office, even if he wasn’t.)