POLL: Women Voters Abandon GOP In Key Battleground States

[Tx4obama]

President Obama has emerged with an impressive lead in swing states around the country — thanks to women voters abandoning the GOP in droves, according to a new USA Today/Gallup poll showing President Obama leading among women voters in the top dozen battleground states by a whopping 18 points — greater than the 12-point gender gap he won with in 2008.

One month ago, the same poll showed Mitt Romney leading the president by 2 percentage points; but Sunday, the newest poll gave Obama a 9-point lead, 51 percent to 42 percent. The change, the poll indicates, comes from women:

“The biggest change came among women under 50. In mid-February, just under half of those voters supported Obama. Now more than six in 10 do while Romney’s support among them has dropped by 14 points, to 30%. The president leads him 2-1 in this group.”

Both Democrats and Republicans point to the battles over contraception coverage as a reason for the shift. Republican strategist Sara Taylor Fagen, a former political adviser to President George W. Bush, told USA Today that “The focus on contraception has not been a good one for us … and Republicans have unfairly taken on water on this issue.”

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. The GOPers really stepped in a big ol' cowpie

with all their anti-woman rhetoric and nasty legislation, didn't they?

[shraby]

2. What does she mean by "unfairly taken on water"? As far as I can see, they richly deserve

the water they are taking on. Each and every drop.

[jenmito]

3. She's a former political adviser to President George W. Bush afterall. n/t

[Tarheel_Dem]

5. That one struck me as well. "Unfairly"?

[diane in sf]

4. Any woamn, gay, black, Latino, person earning under $350K a year would have to be insane to vote R

[rufus dog]

8. A person making that would pay about 6k more in taxes

If you are having a year like that you are a small business owner or in sales. To consistently make that the person needs a stable economy.

So a sane person would have to make at least 750k to vote for these assholes.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

10. "Any woman, gay, black, Latino, person earning under $350K a year would have to be insane to vote R"

I second that!

[Alcibiades]

6. Mitt won't renounce these people

It's not unfair: social conservatives would undo not only Roe, but Griswold. It's been a dream of theirs for 40 years. National GOP figures usually give only dog whistles to these people, and mainly most folks don't pay attention. In this instance, though, average Americans heard them saying what they meant to say, and they claim it's "unfair" that they are being called on their agenda of the last 40 years.

[Grassy Knoll]

7. Just how far back do these idiot tend to go...

Fucking Rupublicans, JEEEZE. Of Course after the country elected President Obama, Nut jobs
from every knuckle dragging backwoods States would not be able to drown out their sorrows
with a few gulps from hick sour mash, after a long drunk they figure their wives must have voted
for the cute black guy, and woman must severely be punished. Ergo - 2012 Republicans.

[demosincebirth]

9. "unfairly taken on water on this issue?” they can't help it, it's in their genes

[tblue37]

11. How is it "unfair" that Republicans "have taken on water" on

this issue? They are the ones who raised it and the ones who said all the nasty stuff abou women and about limiting women's reproductiv rights.

They think it is "unfair" when people lsiten to what they actually say and then recoil in horror from it.

[sarge43]

12. "Unfairly"

Repubs really are unable to accept responsibility. "He slammed his face right into my fist."

[polichick]

13. "unfairly" my ass!

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

14. They should have appealed the 19th Amendment when they had the chance. Suckas!!

Anyway, my question is why ANY woman would vote Republican in the first place.

Also, how will Mitt Romney walk back his support for Personhood bills, names in MS.