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Mon Mar 19, 2012, 01:27 PM

Election poll: 'Cavernous' gender gap gives boost to Obama

Last edited Mon Mar 19, 2012, 01:44 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)

Source: The Christian Science Monitor

Andrew Kohut leads the nonpartisan Pew Research Center and the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. He appeared at the March 14 Monitor breakfast in Washington, D.C., to discuss a new Pew national poll.

The gender gap between President Obama and Republican candidates:

"There is a cavernous gender gap in the horse-race poll…. Obama leads Romney by 20 points among female voters. And leads Santorum by 26 points among female voters."

Read more: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/monitor_breakfast/2012/0319/Election-poll-Cavernous-gender-gap-gives-boost-to-Obama



I believe that this the report on the survey to which Kohut refers:
http://www.people-press.org/2012/03/14/romney-leads-gop-contest-trails-in-matchup-with-obama/?src=prc-headline

The specific data are found on this page, you have to scroll down:
http://www.people-press.org/2012/03/14/section-2-the-general-election-2/

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Reply Election poll: 'Cavernous' gender gap gives boost to Obama (Original post)
Julian Englis Mar 2012 OP
sharp_stick Mar 2012 #1
Happyhippychick Mar 2012 #2
polichick Mar 2012 #3
xxqqqzme Mar 2012 #5
polichick Mar 2012 #6
abelenkpe Mar 2012 #7
xxqqqzme Mar 2012 #19
NICO9000 Mar 2012 #13
Enrique Mar 2012 #4
tblue Mar 2012 #10
kestrel91316 Mar 2012 #8
truthisfreedom Mar 2012 #9
Iliyah Mar 2012 #11
lark Mar 2012 #12
AlbertCat Mar 2012 #15
Comrade Grumpy Mar 2012 #14
peace frog Mar 2012 #16
Liberalynn Mar 2012 #17
Brooklyn Dame Mar 2012 #18
Botany Mar 2012 #20
Arugula Latte Mar 2012 #24
Botany Mar 2012 #25
BadgerKid Mar 2012 #21
nolabear Mar 2012 #22
Arkana Mar 2012 #23
CobaltBlue Mar 2012 #26

Response to Julian Englis (Original post)

Mon Mar 19, 2012, 01:28 PM

1. Gee I wonder why?

After all the great work being done by the GOP to win over women over the last while you'd think the gap would be even bigger than this?

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Response to Julian Englis (Original post)

Mon Mar 19, 2012, 01:33 PM

2. Love that.

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Response to Julian Englis (Original post)

Mon Mar 19, 2012, 01:42 PM

3. Wish it was a greater cavern - it's astonishing that ANY woman would...

...vote for the GOP.

'Course it's also astonishing that any person of color or any gay person would vote for those scumbags, and yet...

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Response to polichick (Reply #3)

Mon Mar 19, 2012, 01:47 PM

5. My mother and both

sisters will vote for ANYone w/ an 'r' behind their name.

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Response to xxqqqzme (Reply #5)

Mon Mar 19, 2012, 01:52 PM

6. What do they say where you point out that...

...they're voting against themselves?

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Response to xxqqqzme (Reply #5)

Mon Mar 19, 2012, 01:52 PM

7. My mom, sister and SIL will too

they are all stupid FOX news viewing D student idiots.

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Response to xxqqqzme (Reply #5)

Tue Mar 20, 2012, 12:49 AM

19. My mother is 85 so it is a waste of time.

My youngest righteous religious sister had 4 abortions in her younger wild days. She is the ONLY woman I know who has used abortion as birth control. Bet she has never discussed that w/her fundie daughter. My other sister votes rethug because all her friends do. She has had a career working for non-profits, most recently Make a Wish Foundation. Guess none of it rubbed off.

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Response to polichick (Reply #3)

Mon Mar 19, 2012, 03:45 PM

13. Just wait a while

Since they're doubling-and-tripling down on this shit every day, it can't turn out well for them in the long run.

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Response to Julian Englis (Original post)

Mon Mar 19, 2012, 01:42 PM

4. any way they can disenfranchise women?

they're probably working on it, I can't see how they could do it...

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Response to Enrique (Reply #4)

Mon Mar 19, 2012, 02:49 PM

10. Don't give 'em ideas. They may start purging us too.

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Strike all the female names. I could imagine another Katherine Harris doing just that. Some women hate women too.

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Response to Julian Englis (Original post)

Mon Mar 19, 2012, 02:00 PM

8. SRSLY??? Wow. Who knew.

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Response to Julian Englis (Original post)

Mon Mar 19, 2012, 02:13 PM

9. In other news, Republicans suggest law requiring women to present credit card when voting.

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Response to Julian Englis (Original post)

Mon Mar 19, 2012, 02:49 PM

11. Also breaking news

it has been determined that "women" are emotionally unqualified to take care of their own destinies and therefore could not be allowed to vote pursuant to the 5 justices of the US Supreme court!

Also in said determination and put thereforth, "Women" as described, serve for the purposes of:

1. Bear children
2. Please her husband when ever he desires it
3. Pleases her sugar daddy when ever he wants it
4. Raise the children with no questions asked

etc.

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Response to Iliyah (Reply #11)

Mon Mar 19, 2012, 03:34 PM

12. Partially right


Evangelicals don't have sugar daddies, they are sworn to reserve it for husbands only. However, delete #3 and add

Wife must agree with husband, no matter what the topic
Wife must vote the same as husband
Wife has no wishes of her own, only wish is to do as husband desires

(Where is the hurling smilie when I need it?)

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Response to lark (Reply #12)

Mon Mar 19, 2012, 04:04 PM

15. All you left out was...

Wife will be known as Mrs. (husband's name).

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Response to Julian Englis (Original post)

Mon Mar 19, 2012, 03:47 PM

14. Women ain't stupid. But Republicans are if they think their attacks...

...on reproductive rights are a winning strategy. Bless their pointy little heads.

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Response to Julian Englis (Original post)

Mon Mar 19, 2012, 04:25 PM

16. How's that war on women workin' for ya, GOPers?



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Response to Julian Englis (Original post)

Mon Mar 19, 2012, 06:21 PM

17. The Gap Should Be Even Larger

I still don't get women who vote PUKE

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Response to Julian Englis (Original post)

Mon Mar 19, 2012, 09:41 PM

18. Why would any SANE woman consider voting for the GOP?

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Response to Julian Englis (Original post)

Tue Mar 20, 2012, 08:02 AM

20. They reap what they sow



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Response to Botany (Reply #20)

Tue Mar 20, 2012, 12:29 PM

24. Those creepy uber-religious dweebs make my skin crawl.

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Response to Arugula Latte (Reply #24)

Tue Mar 20, 2012, 12:53 PM

25. I wish I was the one asking the ?s to those self appointed shits

How many of you have had sex? Including masturbation? Please tell me about
all of your sexual experiences and do you have any little fetishes?
How many of you are having regular heterosexual sex?
How many of you have had gay sex?
Who the fuck are you to tell women what they can do w/
their bodies?
Why do you think it is called a "private life?"
How do you think it looks when you don't even have any skin in the
game for you be telling women how you think they should act?

But the one democratic man on the panel walked out w/ the women too because
Issa refused to allow Ms. Fluke a chance to speak. And that backfired big time on
the repugs.

sorry to babble

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Response to Julian Englis (Original post)

Tue Mar 20, 2012, 09:31 AM

21. Why would 50+ yo women be less Dem / more Rep?

Simply being post child bearing shouldn't matter, I would think? Are older women jealous of younger women? I just don't have a clue here.

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Response to Julian Englis (Original post)

Tue Mar 20, 2012, 10:59 AM

22. Sisters are doin' it for ourselves.

Enough is ehough.

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Response to Julian Englis (Original post)

Tue Mar 20, 2012, 12:02 PM

23. If the gender gap is 20 points at election time Obama wins in a landslide.

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Response to Julian Englis (Original post)

Tue Mar 20, 2012, 03:35 PM

26. Potential landslide

From 2008:

Barack Obama beat John McCain by 13 points with women.
Obama won over men by 1 point.

These were national results.

20 points (over Mitt Romney) for Obama with women. 26 points (over Rick Santorum) for Obama with women.

Result would be a clear landslide. (Men, by the way, would shift even further to Obama.)

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