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ProSense

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Sun Apr 1, 2012, 03:13 PM Apr 2012

Swing States poll: A shift by women puts Obama in lead (USA Today/Gallup)

Swing States poll: A shift by women puts Obama in lead

By Susan Page

MILWAUKEE – President Obama has opened the first significant lead of the 2012 campaign in the nation's dozen top battleground states, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, boosted by a huge shift of women to his side.

In the fifth Swing States survey taken since last fall, Obama leads Republican front-runner Mitt Romney 51%-42% among registered voters just a month after the president had trailed him by two percentage points.

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.

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In the poll, Romney leads among all men by a single point, but the president leads among women by 18. That reflects a greater disparity between the views of men and women than the 12-point gender gap in the 2008 election.

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/story/2012-04-01/swing-states-poll/53930684/1


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Swing States poll: A shift by women puts Obama in lead (USA Today/Gallup) (Original Post) ProSense Apr 2012 OP
President Obama is HOT jerseygal Apr 2012 #1
I hope they know enough to vote whole dem ticket Obama can't do it alone. julian09 Apr 2012 #2
A vote for ANY Republican is a vote against ALL women. aquart Apr 2012 #3

aquart

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3. A vote for ANY Republican is a vote against ALL women.
Sun Apr 1, 2012, 03:36 PM
Apr 2012

It is a genuine act of attempted suicide for any woman to vote for any Republican. They could not have made their murderous policies more plain.

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