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Women Roar With Record Support For President Obama
Women have pushed back against the Republican war against their health and reproductive decisions by giving President Obama record levels of support.
The USA Today/Gallup poll shows President Obama with a 49%-45% lead nationally over Mitt Romney, but signs of Obama’s increasing momentum are evident in a poll of 12 swing states (Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin). Obama leads Romney in the swing states by a 51%-42% margin.
However, women are the driving force behind President Obama’s momentum. Women in the swing states support Obama by a 2-1 margin. Sixty percent of women under age 50 supported the president. Mitt Romney’s support with swing state women under 50 has dropped 14 points in one month. Among all women, Obama leads Romney by 18 points. A recent Pew Research study also showed Obama leading Romney by 20 points with women, 58%-38%. Healthcare was a top issue for women in both polls.
Over the past few months the dominant issue of the 2012 campaign has been the Republican Party’s war on women. From state level transvaginal ultrasound bills to the Republican Party’s attempt to stigmatize and criminalize birth control, which was personified by Rush Limbaugh’s attack on Sandra Fluke, the GOP has launched a full scale attack on women’s rights.
What the war on women has managed to accomplish is a historic level of support for President Obama. Since 1972, no presidential candidate has received 60% of the support of women. The gender gap in this country has been growing for decades, but from 1996-2004; women supported the Democratic nominee at a rate of 54%, 54%, and 51%. Fifty six percent of women supported President Obama in 2008. Obama has gained a net seven points with women since 2008. Most telling is the fact that 43% of women supported John McCain in 2008, but today only 30% of women support Mitt Romney.If Obama maintains his current pace, the support he receives from women will be a record.
The early results of this war have been nothing short of disastrous for Mitt Romney. His decision to pander to the Republican base instead of leading his party and speaking out has cost him mightily with female voters. Romney’s infamous promise to get rid of Planned Parenthood was concrete evidence that Mitt Romney was happy to step to his party’s front lines and lead the attack on women.
From a strategic perspective, Romney doesn’t have the personality and communication skills needed to reverse the negative views that women hold about him. Romney also lacks the strength and moral core required to stand up to those in his own party who are advancing an agenda of misogynistic barbarity. Republicans made a fatal error when they decided to declare war on women. Instead of sitting back and taking it, women have mobilized and are ready to fight for all of our rights.
Republicans mistakenly believed that they could revive the culture wars and divide the nation by targeting women, but the war on women isn’t just a women’s issue. It is a civil rights issue. It is a national issue, and it is an issue that impacts us all. The right underestimated women, and men such as President Obama who are willing to lock arms and stand side by side with them in this battle. Women are rewarding Obama for his support by rallying around him at historic levels.
The Republican Party’s war on women has managed to push females out of the party, and make women more determined than ever to assert their power and reelect President Barack Obama.
Photo: NY Times
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21 Responses to Women Roar With Record Support For President Obama
Deborah Montesano
Apr. 2nd, 2012 at 1:56 pm
There will be no more underestimating women–we ARE the majority, and we are mad. Join the demonstration of our power on April 28th. (See “First We Vote, Then We March” at thepoliticali.blogspot.co...). Everyone who objects to losing their human rights is welcomed by the organization putting this on–Unite Against the War on Women.
Elissa Lynn
Apr. 2nd, 2012 at 9:42 pm
Tell it like it is Deborah
Christopher
Apr. 2nd, 2012 at 2:04 pm
When a person continually makes life critical decisions based on emotion and not fact and logic, that’s a major defect in reasoning. Ever notice how Republicans have the same defect in reasoning as alcoholics, drug addicts, and religious fanatics? Republicanism is a mental disorder… Granted this is never more true than when this affliction is found in a Republican woman. A Republican Woman? Good God, that’s like a pro KKK African American or a pro Nazi Jew, especially by today’s GOP misogynistic standards. But there are way too many studies recently that prove the Right Wing mind is clinically irrational. We have all been told by our mothers, “Never ague with stupidity.” A Republican has to want to help themselves first in order to ‘break through’, otherwise you’re talking to a wall, just like an alcoholic. They have to hit rock bottom before they become open to help. I have found that it usually takes six to eight years of constant effort to get a Republican to think rationally, but that’s taking into account there is an iota of commonsense in their head. Another problem with Republicanism it’s patriarchal. It’s seared in during early childhood… The Jesuits said, ‘Give me the child till they’re seven and you can have the man.’ Tragically… they’re broken… Just saying…
Jo Hargis
Apr. 2nd, 2012 at 2:23 pm
That’s a great analogy, Christopher. I never thought of it in terms of addiction, but you’re pretty spot on there. That explains why, so many times, republicans don’t seem to learn their lessons til they have to experience it….the “rock bottom”. They’ll never listen to reason; they must experience themselves or their daughters being refused contraception, or being refused critical health care, before they figure it out.
I’m sure the naysayers will be along shortly, those that love to deny there is this war on women, those that like to accuse Dems of manufacturing this crisis. To that I say, Republicans, you sh!t in your own house, don’t blame the smell on someone else now.
Anne
Apr. 2nd, 2012 at 2:40 pm
These efforts to roll back the clock on women’s reproductive rights are a significant part of the GOP’s overreach in pushing cultural wars from last century. They tried on a federal level to make it an issue of “religious freedom,” which would have been the freedom of some employers to deny things like coverage for birth control included in health insurance. They thought it would be a winning strategy, but combined with the even more flagrant legislation at the state level among GOP-governed states, it has served to galvanize women against them. I agree with Christopher that many if not most Republicans have to hit rock bottom in some way before they are prepared to face reality.
A Walkaway
Apr. 2nd, 2012 at 2:48 pm
We need to translate the support for President Obama into support for Democrat candidates at all levels of government, otherwise it will be a wasted effort.
Judy
Apr. 2nd, 2012 at 3:18 pm
Exactly! Most of our problems are due to the Republicans in Congress…most Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats have overextended their stay and should be retired about 10 months from now! And, let me also remind all women out there that Phyllis Schafley and crew, James Dobson and his followers are still major forces to be reckoned with and should not be taken lightly in their power to take away women’s rights.
A Walkaway
Apr. 2nd, 2012 at 5:49 pm
I know about Dobson and gang… they managed to arrange for the State of Florida to collect “donations” to their group through the driver’s license office.
We thought we had them stopped… but found out they’d succeeded anyway.
I don’t know how Florida could survive much more Rick Scott, or Rubio, or Alexander, or Nugent, or any of the others. I just hope that they’ve worn out their welcome with so many people that people actually get out and vote.
robyn ryan
Apr. 2nd, 2012 at 2:59 pm
We need to remind our lawmakers that women pay taxes.
Conservative Heart
Apr. 2nd, 2012 at 6:38 pm
Shiiiiieeeet.
I always thought women were stupid. Now I have proof.
Don’t believe me? Just look at that wretch of an example for a woman Michelle O’Terrorist!!
Reynardine
Apr. 2nd, 2012 at 7:04 pm
Hi, Edgar Allen.
Tallteacher
Apr. 7th, 2012 at 7:03 am
Troll. Sounds like you hate women because they won’t have anything to do with you. Who can blame them! Now go back under your rock.
achieve
Apr. 2nd, 2012 at 9:06 pm
I am woman, hear me roar
In numbers too big to ignore
And I know too much to go back an’ pretend
’cause I’ve heard it all before
And I’ve been down there on the floor
No one’s ever gonna keep me down again.
VOTE for OBAMA/Biden. ..2012! They support women’s rights.
Cazares
Apr. 2nd, 2012 at 10:43 pm
I am woman. Hear me roar. No more Obama!! Vote ABO (Anybody but Obama).
Anne
Apr. 3rd, 2012 at 11:18 am
All these same folks you want other than President Obama have sworn to undermine, if not destroy, one of the very things that have empowered American women for so long. You do know that Weathervane Willard, the likely GOP nominee, has vowed to get rid of Planned Parenthood. That’s a big reason that recent polls show women of child-bearing ages transferring support from him to Obama. As for Santorum, do you really want to live under someone who has said the states have the right to ban birth control? Be careful what you wish for, because all the GOP candidates for the nomination are appealing to the most backward, regressive elements of the American population to win that nomination.
Reynardine
Apr. 3rd, 2012 at 6:25 pm
Espece de cretine.
Reynardine
Apr. 3rd, 2012 at 6:27 pm
@Cazares, to be exact.
Karen Grey
Apr. 2nd, 2012 at 10:49 pm
I live in Arizona. Need I say more? I am fighting mad with the republican attack on women. I am also a slut and I ALWAYS vote. I have a looooong memory and won’t forget this stupidity. Go OBAMA/Biden…2012!!!!
What To Do
Apr. 3rd, 2012 at 10:03 am
(To Cazares) When you say “Anyone But Obama”… That just proves how crazy you really are. Because the ONLY ones other than Obama are the people trying to destroy your civil rights? Yes, I don’t agree with every move Obama’s ever made but do you REALLY think the other candidates are going to make your life better? Good luck, I won’t even insult you because your life must be awful enough.
meiza
Apr. 5th, 2012 at 8:53 pm
Women rights forever………How can you be a women and vote for any REPUBLICAN…they created the WAR…we are too big