Romnney erases Obama lead among women. Huh????

[1springhill]

How the hell can this be right? With all the anti-women shit that has been coming out and he has closed a 16-point gap? Shouldn't he be way ahead then? Don't get it.

http://news.yahoo.com/ap-poll-romney-erases-obama-advantage-among-women-071129692--election.html

[sarisataka]

1. Was just discussing this with my wife

We came to the same conclusion



They need to check their numbers

[Autumn]

2. Bullshit

no way in hell that is true.

[jschurchin]

3. And you believe Fox Light (Yahoo)?

Don't believe that bullshit. The President still has womens support. Go on the street and ask women who they will vote for, THAT is a much better indication than fox light.

[Live and Learn]

9. It is an AP Poll not a Yahoo Poll and although I find the numbers suspect

the article wasn't all bad news.

or all of the good news for Republicans, however, what matters most in the election endgame is Romney's standing in the handful of states whose electoral votes still are up for grabs. And polls in a number of those battleground states still appear to favor Obama.

As the election nears, Romney has been playing down social issues and trying to project a more moderate stance on matters such as abortion in an effort to court female voters. The AP-GfK poll, taken Friday through Tuesday, shows Romney pulling even with Obama among women at 47-47 after lagging by 16 points a month earlier.

But now his campaign is grappling with the fallout from a comment by a Romney-endorsed Senate candidate in Indiana, who said that when a woman becomes pregnant during a rape "that's something God intended."

[efhmc]

4. Yahoo has the most skewed news possible and not in our favor.

Just saw another poll showing that if we only allowed women to vote, Obama would win by a landslide.

[rock]

20. Or if blacks could vote, Obama would win by a landslide

(Yeah, sarcasm)

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. Your Concern Is Duly Noted.Thank You For Your Input./nt

[democrat_patriot]

6. Maybe in Kansas or Nebraska. Where there was no gap to speak of.

Bu in VA Obama is up by 14-16 among women.

It counts more there :&gt

[ProSense]

7. Check this out:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251175174

[meadowlark5]

8. Yeah, I laughed at that

Willard might have gained a tiny bit, but no way did he wipe out the lead.

Just more bullshit to keep this race tight and exciting for the media and their ratings/money.

[Champion Jack]

10. Thanks for your concern

[libtodeath]

11. President Obama will win the womans vote by at least 15 points

and the over all by 5-7.

[tjwash]

12. LOL....yahoo. Next the trolls will be prosting hotlinks to free republic.

nt

[catbyte]

13. I heard that on NPR radio this morning as I was driving to work. Almost drove off the road

Come on, we're not THAT STUPID, are we?!?

[gollygee]

14. On election night

We will hear, over and over again, as results come in and Obama wins more and more states, and we hear the exit poll information, how big of a gender gap there was and how much of a difference it made. The "likely voter" polls can be skewed however people want. They are frequently skewed to include more white men, because pollers mistakenly think white men are more likely to vote.

[Viking12]

15. Actual results?

Regardless of whom you may support, who do you trust to do a better job of making the right decisions on women’s issues: Obama 56% Romney 34%

There are no other gender related breakdowns in the data reported.
http://ap-gfkpoll.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/AP-GfK-Poll-October-2012-Topline_POLITICS.pdf

[karynnj]

16. at least at this point, it is an outlier

Outliers happen. The confidence interval usually used is a 95% confidence interval. This means that 5% of the observations will be outside that interval. This is very likely one of the 2.5% of all polls that is outside that interval on the pro Romney side.

Now, it could be that this is the first of a very drastic shift - but what could the cause be? The Republicans are pushing that Obama's joke in the debate (bayonets and horses) was disrespectful of Romney. (This creates a disorientation in my head - ie Romney being rude to the moderator and to the President of the US shows strength; Obama remaining polite but using humor (and logic) to counter a Romney position is rude to Romney. )

Could it be millions of attack ads? But, this is something that we have had all year.

At this point, I bet that it is an outlier.

[DearHeart]

17. It's amazing just how brainwashed some of these people are

Just reading the comments...all Fox News talking points! These people scare me!!!

[pointsoflight]

18. Poll is odd--it has *both* gender gaps narrowing...

Obama's gap with women AND Romney's gap with men.

[L0oniX]

19. Tr*ll bait?

[JaneyVee]

21. BULLSHIT. The gender gap is at historic highs.

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/21/gender-gap-near-historic-highs/

[TBF]

22. Too bad the jury let this one stand (I was not the first alert) -

if you do a search you can see this new member's other concerns as well ....