Yet instead we have the usually inspired spin. The Republican Senatorial Congressional Committee (RSCC) Chariman claims that Democrats need to worry as they face a gender gap with men. Brilliant spin. Women are running from the GOP in waves-and are the majority voting demographic that is not only are they the statistical majority but they vote more than men too-but the RSCC is worrying about the Democrat's chances? Hey GOP: get your own house in order. Believe me you can't count on us to worry about you so you better do your own worrying.
http://news.yahoo.com/romney-solidifies-gop-position-obama-gets-boost-women-040227798--abc-news-politics.html
"Obama has returned to a single-digit lead vs. Romney in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, 51-44 percent among registered voters, after a virtual dead heat last month. That includes Obama's largest margin to date among women, 57-38 percent. He trails by 8 points among men."
"After an extended period of debate and political positioning on a range of issues of concern to women, there's also a sharp gender gap in the president's overall job approval rating - 13 points higher among women than men, another record in ABC/Post polls. Obama's 50 percent approval rating overall rests on positive views among 56 percent of women vs. 43 percent of men."
"Underscoring that gender gap, Obama leads Romney by 19 points among all adults in trust to handle "women's issues," his single largest advantage among a dozen issues tested in this poll, which was produced for ABC by Langer Research Associates. That includes a 10-point lead for Obama on women's issues among men, growing to 27 points among women."
Remember that many men-your author for example-care about women's issues too. If the GOP plans to get all the men and let Democrats have all the women this will end badly for them. Indeed, it's not just women's issues. Romney is trailing Obama in most important categories:
"Other factors are at play. Obama leads Romney by significant margins in trust to handle six key issues in all, ranging from international affairs to protecting the middle class to handling social issues such as abortion and gay marriage. Romney clearly leads on just one, handling the deficit. Obama also leads on a range of personal attributes, including by a vast 38 points in being seen as the more friendly and likable of the two and by 26 points as "more inspiring."
The irony is that on the one issue the voters give Romney-handling the deficit- they are wrong. Romney's ideas like those of all the GOP candidates all call for exploding the deficit much further with budget busting tax breaks on the rich and vague talk of "closing loopholes" none of which the GOP can ever name. The only GOP candidate who did do something about the deficit was Herman Cain. The ugliness of his 9-9-9 plan-basically the deep tax cuts for the rich were to be paid by equally large tax hikes for everyone else including the upper middle class, shows why the other candidates-along with Paul Ryan-have preferred not explain how they might hope to balance the budget while advocating such deep tax cuts for the rich.
"Among issues, the economy, and the broader sentiment it inspires, are key to the election. Today the fewest number of Americans in more than a year say the country is on the wrong track, nearly half say their local economy is improving and a sense that jobs are "very difficult" to find has eased by 14 percentage points from last summer."
What? I thought Obama would be defeated because of gas prices?
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