The outcry on the NARAL Obama Endorsement tells us Obama should strongly consider a woman VP [View All]

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NARAL has endorsed Obama, as was mentioned on Huffington Post. See this post for details:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5968556&mesg_id=5968556

While there is much discussion over taking someone from either Pennsylvania or Ohio, I think the negative reaction to NARAL endorsement is yet another sign of intense hatred building against Obama from single women who are seeing their dream of a woman president crash and burn in real time. This has stopped being a democrat thing. For many of them, the loss of the chance for a woman President is larger than the issues facing the country. At best, my guess is a good percentage of them will just stay home.

Many of us have had conversations that have gone similar to mine from two days ago. I had the "joy" of having a conversation with a close family friend. She is single, in her sixties and is a rabid Hillary supporter. Furthermore, she truly believes that Obama is an empty suit and has rationalized to herself that he has taken credit for every piece of legislation his name is associated with, but has done nothing on any of them. She thinks Obama is underhanded, and used slimy tactics to paint Hillary as a racist, etc. In short, she flat out hates the guy at this point, and will sit home rather than vote for him, assuming he wins that is (she still thinks Hillary can win).

The only question is how many of these folks are out there. My fear is that Obama could easily looking at a good 5% of the dems at least who might fit this profile - that could clearly be a difference maker in November. If so, there's only one way to bring these folks back into the fold: put a woman on the ticket.

Personally, I think Hillary really muddies his message, but a candidate like Sebelius does not. Obama should strongly consider this approach.