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bigtree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-30-08 12:54 PM
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First National Poll Finds Palin Gains LESS Support from Women
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August 30, 2008 1:35 PM ET

NEW YORK The first national poll on John McCain's pick of Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mater yesterday came out today from Rasmussen Reports -- and contrary to what the GOP probably hoped, she scored less well with women than men.

Some 38% of men said they were more likely to vote for McCain now, but only 32% of women.

By a narrow 41% to 35% margin, men said she was not ready to be president -- but women soundly rejected her in those grounds, 48% to 25%.

Only 9% of Obama supporters said they might be more likely to vote for McCain.

Overall, voters expressed a favorable first impression of her by a 53/26 margin, but there was a severe gender gap on this: Men embraced her at 58% to 23%, while for women it was 48/30.

And by a 29/44 margin, men and women together, they do not believe that she is ready to be President.

As for voters not affiliated with either major party, 37% are more likely to vote for McCain and 28% less likely to do so.
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skooooo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-30-08 12:55 PM
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1. 37% are more likely to vote for McCain
:wtf:
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Misskittycat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-30-08 12:58 PM
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3. Because she's hot. Duh.
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Nikki Stone1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-30-08 01:01 PM
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5. I really doubt that. I think it's more her fundy belief system.
She has shored up the fundie base.
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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-30-08 12:56 PM
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2. I was relieved Romney was not picked
That would have made Michigan much tougher for our team.
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Nikki Stone1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-30-08 01:00 PM
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4. She was chosen to make sure the fundie base came out to vote
Her being female was a dig at Barack and the DNC, and a good dig. But I don't think McCain really expects hard core Democratic women to vote for Palin.
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AlinPA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-30-08 01:12 PM
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6. Seems he would have picked Huckabee for the fundamentalist vote. I think
his main reason for her is the womens' vote and it may not be working yet. Maybe the republicans think that after a month of wall-to-wall coverage on TV talk shows talking about her kids and Miss Alaska stuff and magazine covers (People, Us, Them, or whatever) and Access Hollywood, etc. it may change in their favor. I don't think women are going to fall for it.
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Nikki Stone1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-30-08 01:16 PM
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7. Huckabee didn't have the appeal that Palin had
Palin is well known in conservative-fundie circles. I only knew who she was because I know a crazy fundie who hated McCain and was waiting for the VP pick to see if he should bother going to the polls. Now he's going.

Gender was important only because Barack was running as a "first" and the Republicans needed a "first". Had Hillary won the nomination and Barack lost, McCain might have picked an African American.
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AlinPA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-30-08 01:28 PM
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9. Sounds reasonable to me.
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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-30-08 01:26 PM
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8. So men vote with their dicks?
Please tell me this isn't true.
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cliffordu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-30-08 01:30 PM
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10. Well, we do everything else with them. Bowl, golf, trim the hedge.....
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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-30-08 02:12 PM
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11. That would be handy.
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cliffordu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-30-08 02:20 PM
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12. Rotary telephones were problematic as you might well imagine....Touch tone, not so much...
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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-30-08 02:35 PM
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14. And its easier to pee out in the woods when you're camping.
Edited on Sat Aug-30-08 02:36 PM by undeterred
But getting back to our original subject, I can't believe more men would vote for McCain because he puts a beauty queen on his ticket than will vote for Obama when he puts a Senator with 36 years of experience on the ticket. That's depressing.
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cliffordu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-30-08 02:51 PM
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16. Nope. Not even men are that vacuous.
However:

The fundie nutbags who want to end all abortion and birth control, who want to subjugate women and relegate them to brood mare status who have been angry and want to sit this one out will vote for her in a new york minute, so in a horrific and ironic way, yes, some men will......

If I was voting a Delta of Venus ticket, it'd have to be Susan Sarandon and Michelle Obama....

But that's just me....
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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-30-08 02:25 PM
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13. Are You Kidding?



You didn't really think that photo op was staged for women, did you?
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-30-08 02:37 PM
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15. Women do not like other women to be used as trophies
and to get the rocks off republicans.
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