Poll: Women boost Obama over Romney in swing states

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Women voters helped President Barack Obama take a large lead over Republican front-runner candidate Mitt Romney in a dozen battleground states, a USA TODAY/Gallup poll said on Monday.

The results point to difficulties the Republicans could face among a critical bloc in November’s general election against Obama.

The poll put the president ahead of Romney by 51 percent against 42 percent among all voters. Obama led Romney among the women with 54 percent, compared to Romney’s 36 percent.

The poll surveyed voters in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin. Those are considered battleground states. - states that are not leaning strongly toward one party or the other.

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CMatt25 said:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Women voters helped President Barack Obama take a large lead over Republican front-runner candidate Mitt Romney in a dozen battleground states, a USA TODAY/Gallup poll said on Monday.

The results point to difficulties the Republicans could face among a critical bloc in November’s general election against Obama.

The poll put the president ahead of Romney by 51 percent against 42 percent among all voters. Obama led Romney among the women with 54 percent, compared to Romney’s 36 percent.

The poll surveyed voters in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin. Those are considered battleground states. - states that are not leaning strongly toward one party or the other.

chicagotribune.com/news/politics/sns-rt-us-usa-campaign-pollbre8310mt-20120402,0,3214589.story
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Yes, I can see that the Obama campaign seems to have settled on a strategy: accuse the GOP of “war on women” and racism against minorities, and exploit class envy (Biden is already portraying Romney as “out of touch with the middle class”). Quite a divisive, shameful strategy which may or may not work. I truly have to wonder how anyone could support such a blatently cynical campaign.

Ishii
 
ishii said:
Yes, I can see that the Obama campaign seems to have settled on a strategy: accuse the GOP of “war on women” and racism against minorities, and exploit class envy (Biden is already portraying Romney as “out of touch with the middle class”). Quite a divisive, shameful strategy which may or may not work. I truly have to wonder how anyone could support such a blatently cynical campaign.

Ishii
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Oh Ishii. There ya go again. But as President Obama has and I imagine Vice President Biden has explained, what Republicans like to call “class envy” is really a sense of fairness and justice. Not envy.
 
CMatt25 said:
Oh Ishii. There ya go again. As President Obama has and I imagine Vice President Biden has explained, what Republicans like to call “class envy” is really a sense of fairness and justice. Not envy or warfare.
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Yes, I understand your spin on Democrat politics of fear and envy. Obama doesn’t have anything to run on other than fear. If they go the fear/smear route I think he’ll lose. Voters would like to know who is going to turn around the economy so that more people have jobs. The Democrats offer more welfare and handouts. I think Romney will do a good job showing how he can help turn the economy around - unlike Obama, he knows how an economy works.
 
Who cares, money-bags Romney dosen’t have a chance. The economy was bound to rebound regardless of what republicrat or demican is in office.
 
Pork_Roll said:
Who cares, money-bags Romney dosen’t have a chance. The economy was bound to rebound regardless of what republicrat or demican is in office.
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Money bags? Romney earned his money honestly, and he has a good chance of beating Obama. If you don’t think it matters who is in power - Democrat or Republican - then you obviously haven’t been paying attention to the supreme court arguements last week on Obama care. It matters a great deal who is in power - the policies of the Obama administration are evil. Atleast the Republicans would repeal the worst of the Obama policies. And they would give us contructionist judges too. Not perfect, mind you, but the GOP is much closer to Catholic teaching on the sanctity of life than the pro-abortion Democrat party.

Ishii
 
Money bags? Romney earned his money honestly, and he has a good chance of beating Obama.
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A good chance except the fact that few conservatives like him. They just say, “he’s electable”. That’s probably not good enough in my opionion.

I don’t want money-bags, I want a good leader who has policies that I agree with. Romney supported Obama and Congress taking away our bill of rights with the NDAA 2012. He’s almost as bad as Obama.
 
ishii said:
Voters would like to know who is going to turn around the economy so that more people have jobs.
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Hopefully enough voters will realize that going back to failed Republican policy that got us into the mess to begin with isn’t the answer.
 
Pork_Roll said:
A good chance except the fact that few conservatives like him. They just say, “he’s electable”. That’s probably not good enough in my opionion.

I don’t want money-bags, I want a good leader who has policies that I agree with. Romney supported Obama and Congress taking away our bill of rights with the NDAA 2012. He’s almost as bad as Obama.
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By calling him money bags, you’re joining in the politics of envy - of resentment toward people who are successful. You don’t understand the depth of Obama’s committment and desire to implement the programs of the secular left. Also, you underestimate how much the right wants to defeat Obama. Trust me, Romney will get the support of the right - because they know that we can’t afford another four years of Obama. Supreme court appointments alone are reason enough to vote for Romney over Obama (but there are many more reasons of course).

Ishii
 
CMatt25 said:
Hopefully enough voters will realize that going back to failed Republican policy that got us into the mess to begin with isn’t the answer.
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Ha. failed Republican policies like those put in place by Barney Frank and Chris Dodd which led to the mortgage/housing crisis and was the biggest reason for the length and serverity of the recession? I didn’t know they were Republicans, Cmatt. I know you like revising history, but this is too much. Failed Republican policies like the Obama stimulus spending that had no positive effect at all and contributed to the debt? I didn’t know Obama was a Republican.

Ishii
 
I question the reliability of a poll that was done on 933 people, average of 77 people per state.

This has been a rough Republican campaign, once Mitt Romney is the nominee and he has selected his VP, see the poll numbers switch.

I just noticed the poll was done on ‘registered voters,’ I heard from an expert who has looked at the election poll data for years that the most reliable polls are done on ‘likely voters,’ just because your registered does not mean you are likely to vote.
 
CMatt25 said:
Oh Ishii. There ya go again. But as President Obama has and I imagine Vice President Biden has explained, what Republicans like to call “class envy” is really a sense of fairness and justice. Not envy.
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No, its envy.
 
ishii said:
By calling him money bags, you’re joining in the politics of envy - of resentment toward people who are successful.
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That’s bad? :confused:

BTW, the rich aren’t always those who were successful - there’s a good deal of old money, inherited wealth, etc. out there. Not every millionaire got his via a Horatio Alger story.
 
Rich_Olszewski said:
That’s bad? :confused:

BTW, the rich aren’t always those who were successful - there’s a good deal of old money, inherited wealth, etc. out there. Not every millionaire got his via a Horatio Alger story.
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RIght…there’s the Kennedy family…which just randomly comes to mind.
 
Rich_Olszewski said:
That’s bad? :confused:

BTW, the rich aren’t always those who were successful - there’s a good deal of old money, inherited wealth, etc. out there. Not every millionaire got his via a Horatio Alger story.
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Are you saying that parents shouldn’t want to leave money to their kids? I have no problem with inherited money.
 
ishii said:
By calling him money bags, you’re joining in the politics of envy - of resentment toward people who are successful. You don’t understand the depth of Obama’s committment and desire to implement the programs of the secular left. Also, you underestimate how much the right wants to defeat Obama. Trust me, Romney will get the support of the right - because they know that we can’t afford another four years of Obama. Supreme court appointments alone are reason enough to vote for Romney over Obama (but there are many more reasons of course).

Ishii
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I think that this “resentment of people who are successful” nonsense that Republicans like to throw out shows an odd definition of success.

I don’t want to be like Mitt Romney; I’m not jealous of him. I mean, I’d like to have as much money as he does, but I want to be a high school football coach. My best friend wants to be a park ranger. Another close friend of mine wants to be an archivist. If I last ten years as a high school football coach and raise good kids, that’s successful and I won’t envy a Mitt Romney a single one of his moneybags.

Why does the Republican Party have this implicit “He who dies with the most cash wins” attitude? My father has vastly less money than Mitt Romney…my own high school coach has vastly less money than Mitt Romney…my parish priest has vastly less money than Mitt Romney…and they are all just as successful.
 
qui_est_ce said:
Are you saying that parents shouldn’t want to leave money to their kids? I have no problem with inherited money.
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Let’s not argue on the merit of inherited money, but I think the point is that just because someone has a tremendous amount of money does not mean that they, personally, have been successful.

I mean, I won’t graduate college with a lot of money, but I will have some money in the bank because I have a lot of generous cousins and generous parents. I’ve done plenty of worthwhile things in my life, but nothing to earn graduating college with money in the bank. My roommate might have more; he might have less (it isn’t my business), but one of us is not more successful than the other.
 
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