Re: Obama's Edge Among Women
"MCP" wrote in message
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> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/05/AR2008010502201.html
>
>
> By Chris Cillizza And Shailagh Murray
> Sunday, January 6, 2008; Page A02
>
> Obama's Edge Among Women
C'mon, we all know why the girls like this Octoroon -wink wink nod nod say
no more :o)
>
>
> One surprising headline from Iowa was how Obama beat Clinton among women,
> despite all the intense wooing by the Clinton camp and outside groups such
> as
> EMILY's List.
>
> Obama's real edge came with single and divorced women. According to
> entrance
> polls, Clinton narrowly won among married women, but Obama dominated with
> unmarried women, winning by 13 percentage points.
>
> Democrats are targeting unmarried women as a potentially significant new
> voter
> pool, and the Iowa caucuses suggested that those efforts may be paying
> off. In
> Iowa, unmarried women accounted for 28 percent of Democratic caucusgoers,
> six
> points higher than their overall share of the state's population,
> according to
> entrance polling.
>
> Married women caucused in proportion to the overall population, accounting
> for
> 29 percent of the eligible population in Iowa and 29 percent of Democratic
> caucus attendees.
>
> For the first time in history, there are as many unmarried women
> nationally as
> married adult women in the country. But unmarried women are 9 percentage
> points less likely to register and 13 percentage points less likely to
> vote.
> Marital status is one of the top four determinants of whether an
> individual
> will vote.
>
> Can Clinton Bounce Back?
>
>
> Former president Bill Clinton may have known something most of the country
> didn't.
>
> In a speech in Iowa on New Year's Eve, he seemed to hint that his wife
> might
> fail in the state's caucuses but that her experience with setbacks
> prepares
> her to bounce back.
>
> "The next president, unless he or she is locked in a closet for four
> years,
> will sooner or later fail at something," he said. "What you need to know
> is
> how your leader would respond to failure."
>
> He went on to describe how, when faced with the failure of their plan to
> overhaul health care, his wife pushed forward on legislation to ensure
> broader
> access for children. "She doesn't quit, and that's a good thing in a
> leader,"
> he added.
>
> While the health-care flop was certainly a notable policy failure, a look
> at
> Hillary Clinton's political career shows no defeat comparable to the one
> she
> suffered at the hands of Obama and former senator John Edwards (N.C.) last
> week in Iowa.
>
> In 2000, Clinton took considerable criticism when she initially announced
> her
> decision to run for the Senate from New York, but she quickly quieted
> skeptics
> with an Upstate "listening tour." When the race seemed to tighten in the
> early
> fall, Clinton's opponent -- then-Rep. Rick Lazio -- made the fatal mistake
> of
> demanding she sign a clean-campaign pledge during a September debate. The
> audience bridled, and the outcome was never again in doubt. Clinton won
> with
> 55 percent of the vote.
>
> Six years later, she cruised to reelection with 67 percent in what
> amounted to
> a warm-up for her presidential bid.
>
> That string of unbroken political successes was broken badly last week in
> Iowa. Her husband was always best when he was down. Can Hillary Clinton
> follow
> in his footsteps?
>
>
>
> --
> Gender, sexual orientation, skin color and ethnicity are accidents at
> birth,
> not an entitlement for lifelong victimhood.
>
>
>
date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:51:27 GMT
author: Dr. Lippschitz
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