Why Obama does better than Clinton against McCain: it's the men, folks.

[calteacherguy]

From Bill Schneider
CNN Washington Bureau

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Why does Obama do better against McCain than Clinton? Obama does do a little better than Clinton with independents and Republicans.

But the big difference is men: Men give McCain an 18-point lead over Clinton, 57 percent to 39 percent, according to the CNN poll. The margin of error for that question was plus or minus 5 percentage points.

But if McCain and Obama went head to head, McCain's lead among men shrinks to three, 49 percent to 46 percent -- statistically a tie.

Women, on the other hand, vote for either Clinton or Obama by similar margins.

Some Democrats may be worried about how Obama will fare with white voters. Whites give McCain a 15-point lead over Clinton, (56 percent for McCain, 41 percent for Clinton).

But Obama actually fares better than Clinton with white voters. McCain still leads, but by a smaller margin, (52 to 43 percent).

Obama argues that he can reach across party lines. And he does do a little better than Clinton with Independents and Republicans, at least in these polls.

But the big difference is that Clinton doesn't draw very well with men. Obama does.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/08/20008.matchups.schneider/index.html


I hope someday there is a woman candidate for President who inspires me, but Hillary Clinton is not that candidate.

[Guaranteed]

1. Bingo. It's the NASCAR- or lawnmowing, to use a lesser extreme- dads.

They're not going to vote for Clinton.

[thunder rising]

2. "a little better than Clinton with Independents and Republicans" there's an understatement

[calteacherguy]

4. Indeed. nt

[surfermaw]

3. Are you kidding, they voted at least some for McCain when they thought Edwards was out in S.C.

[Kahuna]

5. Yep. I've been saying that Hillary doesn't do well with men. Perhaps

because she has been heavily pandering to women.

[calteacherguy]

6. I'll get flamed for saying this

but I suspect a lot of women, especially ones that are less educated (it is a group she does well with) vote for her primarily because she is a women.

Putting on flame suit now...

[mtnsnake]

8. ATTENTION! ATTENTION! Calling all DU feminists. Come to the scene right now. Teach has been naughty!

:evilgrin:

[JVS]

11. I was having a drink on Tuesday night with a few friends. One of them is a nurse...

who was also interested in the results coming in on the TV. She was complaining that a lot of her co-workers were talking about voting for Hillary just because she's a woman and that she felt it was stupid and made women look bad.

[mtnsnake]

7. All this proves is that the Goddess of Peace will be our next President of the USA

Sorry, teach, but there is just no stopping her, no matter how many bogus reasons the Obamabites can come up with :smoke:

[Evergreen Emerald]

9. He does not necessarily do better against McCain. That poll changes

weekly.

[Radical Activist]

10. So Clinton has no advantage among women compared to Obama

against McCain? That's an even bigger story. Shouldn't Hillary be doing better against McCain among women voters?

[gulliver]

12. GOP hasn't attacked Obama at all.

If they had, Obama would be losing to McCain worse than Hillary. The GOP has not been calling Obama a cocaine snorting, one-year Senate freshman liberal yet. When they do, the glass jaw could break like it did in the SC debate. Then Obama had better have a second act.