Obama Winning Women Voters, but Margin Slimmest Among Baby Boomers
New poll shows Obama with 12-point lead among all female respondents
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Setting aside the age of respondents, McCain leads narrowly among white women (46 percent to Obama's 44 percent) and significantly among evangelicals (58 percent to 33 percent).
Obama had the biggest margins among African-American women (91 percent to McCain's 3 percent) and among female college graduates with postgraduate study (64 percent to 29 percent).
On the issues, "pocketbook" concerns trump all others. Forty-three percent of women name the cost of living, healthcare, gas, and food as top concerns. Thirty-two percent identified foreign policy and national security issues and 28 percent cited energy policies.
The poll tapped 1,406 women during the first week in August. The margin of error was plus or minus 2.7 percentage points, though larger for specific subgroups.
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NOT voting for McCain
As a small business owner I contacted the McCain office here in Phoenix (my office is a couple blocks away from his) to voice a concern given his talk of being for small business. My father was a Republican and was active in the GOP, volunteering on a previous campaign. I received no reply (or a reply that he was not going to reply). I am not convinced that someone who says they are "for me" as it were, and who does not them address my concern as one of his constituents in Arizona (Phoenix, no less), will "be there" for me as President. I, and my family and friends are now converts and we are voting for Obama.
Stuttering and stammering
I don't think stuttering is a bad thing when you don't have a prepared speech. Try getting up in front of thousands of people and coming up with a speech off the top of your head. McCain does it too, and even more so when he HAS something prepared.
Further, if you want to talk about shady connections, what about the Clintons with Whitewater and McCain with the Keating 5? Not to say that I don't respect them, but don't make it seem that other candidates are shining pillars of morals and values.
Finally, you want to talk experience, McCain hasn't even served on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Obama is actually the chairman of the sub-committee on European Affairs, and now has Joe Biden on his ticket. I trust him more on foreign affairs than I do McCain.
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