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Romney Solidifies GOP Position but Obama Gets Boost From Women (ABC-WaPo poll)
By Gary Langer
Apr 10, 2012 12:01am
A widening gender gap, modest economic gains, an edge on key issues and broad advantages in personal popularity are boosting Barack Obama’s re-election prospects. Yet Mitt Romney, moving to close the deal in his own party, holds opportunities of his own for the road ahead.
Obama has returned to a single-digit lead vs. Romney in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, 51-44 percent among registered voters, after a virtual dead heat last month. That includes Obama’s largest margin to date among women, 57-38 percent. He trails by 8 points among men.
Underscoring that gender gap, Obama leads Romney by 19 points among all adults in trust to handle “women’s issues,” his single largest advantage among a dozen issues tested in this poll, which was produced for ABC by Langer Research Associates. That includes a 10-point lead for Obama on women’s issues among men, growing to 27 points among women.
After an extended period of debate and political positioning on a range of issues of concern to women, there’s also a sharp gender gap in the president’s overall job approval rating – 13 points higher among women than men, another record in ABC/Post polls. Obama’s 50 percent approval rating overall rests on positive views among 56 percent of women vs. 43 percent of men ...
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/04/romney-solidifies-gop-position-but-obama-gets-boost-from-women/
Apr 10, 2012 12:01am
A widening gender gap, modest economic gains, an edge on key issues and broad advantages in personal popularity are boosting Barack Obama’s re-election prospects. Yet Mitt Romney, moving to close the deal in his own party, holds opportunities of his own for the road ahead.
Obama has returned to a single-digit lead vs. Romney in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, 51-44 percent among registered voters, after a virtual dead heat last month. That includes Obama’s largest margin to date among women, 57-38 percent. He trails by 8 points among men.
Underscoring that gender gap, Obama leads Romney by 19 points among all adults in trust to handle “women’s issues,” his single largest advantage among a dozen issues tested in this poll, which was produced for ABC by Langer Research Associates. That includes a 10-point lead for Obama on women’s issues among men, growing to 27 points among women.
After an extended period of debate and political positioning on a range of issues of concern to women, there’s also a sharp gender gap in the president’s overall job approval rating – 13 points higher among women than men, another record in ABC/Post polls. Obama’s 50 percent approval rating overall rests on positive views among 56 percent of women vs. 43 percent of men ...
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/04/romney-solidifies-gop-position-but-obama-gets-boost-from-women/
