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since Romney is doubling down with his lies (Original Post) gabeana Oct 2012 OP
Nope cdb Oct 2012 #1
i respectfully disagree gabeana Oct 2012 #2
Yes. And we need to keep an eye on getting Democrats into the Senate and Congress. Overseas Oct 2012 #3
Mitt knows its slipping away -- quinnox Oct 2012 #4

Overseas

(12,121 posts)
3. Yes. And we need to keep an eye on getting Democrats into the Senate and Congress.
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 01:54 AM
Oct 2012

Those votes will be easier to flip-- either the old fashioned ways-- trash ads, voter intimidation, long lines-- or modern electronic hacks.

I hope the Democrats have good hackers too.

We have tons of people out of work who would love to count votes by hand. I hope we return to that soon.

 

quinnox

(20,600 posts)
4. Mitt knows its slipping away --
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 02:04 AM
Oct 2012

Mitt Romney's Still Having Trouble Winning Over Women

Despite rumors that his luck with woman has changed, Mitt Romney has continued to fail at closing the sizable gender gap among voters with only a week to go until the election. The Huffington Post's poll wizard Mark Blumenthal and politics reporter Sabrina Saddiqui crunched a whole host of the most recent numbers and found that Romney's fortune among women voters has changed little since his post debate surge at the beginning of October, despite rumors that he'd finally made a breakthrough with the demographic.

Ladies (Still) Love Obama

That first debate did give Romney a bump among women voters, but that bump has disappeared. "That poll we conducted right after the first debate suggested that his debate performance did have an impact on the race, and that impact was probably more substantial among women than it was among men," Michael Dimock, associate director at the Pew Research Center told The Huffington Post. "The entirety of the polling over the course of this year suggests to me that the gender gap is likely to look very similar to the last few election cycles, with women somewhere between 6 and 8 points to favor Obama, and fairly consistent with where we've been since 1980."

Indeed, Pew's latest poll numbers released on Monday show that likely 50 percent of women voters favor Obama versus just 44 percent for Romney. Giving the issue due diligence, Blumenthal and Saddiqui synthesized the data from seven other recent polls of likely women voters and found the difference in the number of women that have said they Romney between September and now is negligible when you take the margin of error into account. In other words, Romney is right back where he was with women voters before the first debate.

http://news.yahoo.com/mitt-romneys-still-having-trouble-winning-over-women-010752925.html

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