Well, so much for women helping the Lightbringer out this year:
According to Gallup, 47 percent of voters polled are backing Romney, compared to 45 percent who prefer Obama. That’s well within the poll’s margin of error, which is plus or minus 3 percent.
While both men are doing well within their respective parties, the most notable finding came among self-described independents, a swing voting bloc that could very well determine the outcome of this fall’s election. According to Gallup, Romney leads Obama among indie voters by 6 points, 45 percent to 39 percent.
If I might venture a guess, I might imagine, hypothetically, that the “indie” voters are actually former Democratic working class women of a certain age that Obama and the Democrats blew off in 2008. Some of those women went to the right or ended up supporting Sarah Palin. They’re probably more interested in economic issues than birth control and life is about to get a lot tougher on them this summer when gas prices skyrocket.
What goes around comes around.
Filed under: Presidential election 2012, women | Tagged: Gallup Poll, Gas Prices, independent women, Obama, Romney, tied |
The Confluence 
My newest vice: cocoa roasted almonds. Deadly.
Oh how the above makes me grin like a Cheshire cat.
Karma? Schadenfreude?
I never bothered to read the news articles about the polls because the print and broadcast media are liars. The lunatic fringe disapproves of Obama because they consider him to be the reincarnation of Karl Marx. He gets low approvals from real Democrats because he is a Wall Street puppet. Are those questions asked or is it more generic?
I think the bottom line is he sucks as president, even for men. That’s why he’s competitive with a all-white empty suit.
*an all-white
I don’t think it matters anymore if you use “an”. It’s some kind of artifact that isn’t necessary anymore. Probably from the French or something. It just sounds nicer when the next letter is a vowel or H.