Apparently, if you can believe some recent polling data, Barry has now opened with what's been described as the first significant lead of the 2012 campaign in the nation's dozen top battleground states. And supposedly that lead has been brought about because of a huge shift of women having now moved over to his side. Again, at least according to a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll. In the fifth Swing States survey taken since last fall, Barry now 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 those women under 50. In mid-February, just under half of those voters supported Barry. 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. Which, I suppose you could say, doesn't paint a very pretty picture regarding where we are, morally, as a country.
Romney's main advantage remains among men 50 and older, swamping Barry in that demographic by a margin of 56%-38%. Republicans' traditional strength among men "won't be good enough if we're losing women by nine points or 10 points," says Sara Taylor Fagen, a Republican strategist and former political adviser to President George W. Bush. "The focus on contraception has not been a good one for us … and Republicans have unfairly taken on water on this issue." In the poll, Romney leads among all men by a single point, but the president leads among women by 18 points. That reflects a greater disparity between the views of men and women than the 12-point gender gap in the 2008 election. Which makes me kinda wonder, just how screwed up must the priorities of our female population really be. It's a little scary that the fate of the country may actually come down to how it is that a bunch of horny women will choose to vote.
Barry campaign manager, some clone by the name of Jim Messina, says Romney's promise to "end Planned Parenthood" — the former Massachusetts governor says he wants to eliminate federal funding for the group — and his endorsement of an amendment that would allow employers to refuse to cover contraception in health care plans have created "severe problems" for him in the general election. "Romney's run to the right may be winning him Tea Party votes," Messina said in an interview, but he says it's demonstrated that "American women can't trust Romney to stand up for them." He adds: "It would be hard for them to win if you have this kind of gender gap." If women are actually stupid enough to think and their health care will somehow be placed in peril because of the demise of Planned Parenthood then they haven't got the requisite brain power to be able to ascertain the truly important issues that we face as a nation.
Romney pollster Neil Newhouse predicts the gender gap will narrow as Romney moves from the pitched battle of the GOP primaries, Wisconsin, Maryland and the District of Columbia vote Tuesday, to a fall election focused on economic issues. "If there's a gender gap, it goes beyond Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum to a partisan gender gap," Newhouse said in an interview. "It's not Romney-specific. I would argue that it's broader than that." While women typically are more likely than men to identify themselves as Democrats, that difference widens to a chasm in the USA TODAY poll. By 41%-24%, women call themselves Democrats; men by 27%-25% say they're Republicans. The survey of 933 registered voters, taken March 20-26, has a margin of error of +/- 4 points. The swing states surveyed are Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.
OK, I admit it, I just don't get it. Is the ability to have near endless sex without fear of becoming pregnant really the top priority of the majority of women in America today? Is that what they view as being the single most pressing problem facing this country? If so, my friends then we are officially in, what's commonly referred to as being, a world of shit! I am curious about something though, do any of these women ever intend to have families? And if they do, do they see Barry's vision of America as being the ideal country where they would wish to watch their unaborted children to grow up? Are women so consumed with living for today that they care so very little of what will happen to this country in the very near future if Barry is re-elected. Are they really that shallow? Hey, I'm all for having a good time, but what happens when everything, and I mean everything, comes to a screeching halt? And we're damn close to that becoming a reality.
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