Hey John! Women Are Not Stupid
03 September 2008 9:42 am by Taylor Marsh
Quit whining, John. It’s your own fault.
There goes women voters. Via Emily’s
List (pdf) new survey:
The more that Hillary Clinton’s primary supporters learn about Sarah
Palin, the less likely they are to support John McCain.• By the end of the survey, a 55% majority of Clinton’s voters
say that Palin’s inclusion on the ticket makes them less likely to vote
for John McCain (just 9% say her presence on the ticket makes them more likely
to support McCain).
• Obama goes from a 44-percentage-point lead (69% to 25%) to a 54-percentage-point
lead (75% to 21%) over McCain among these Clinton voters as they learn more
about Sarah Palin’s background and her positions on core issues.
There’s more:
Third, Governor Palin’s inclusion on the ticket squanders,
and in fact, reverses John McCain’s previous advantage over Barack Obama
with regard to experience and readiness to lead. When women voters
learn that Palin’s total experience in elective office includes two
years as governor of Alaska, six years as mayor of a small suburban city,
and four years on the city council, and that she has never served in Washington
D.C. and has no foreign policy or national security experience, they express
notable concern. In fact, a majority (52%) say that this information alone
makes them less favorable to Palin (34% much less favorable, 18% somewhat
less favorable). Palin’s lack of experience actually is a double-edged
sword for McCain in that having the expertise and background to be president
was McCain’s single biggest advantage among women voters in a poll conducted
earlier this month, just prior to the start of the Democratic Convention and
the announcement of both parties’ vice presidential selections.In that EMILY’s List Women’s Monitor survey (released 8/20/08
and available at www.emilyslist.org), John McCain lagged far behind Obama
on numerous key leadership measures (including caring about and relating to
people like you, working across party lines, being independent-minded, and
having strong moral, family, and personal values), while McCain bested
Obama on only two fronts—as a strong commander-in-chief and, his greatest
marginal advantage (by 35 points), as someone with the experience, background,
and knowledge to be president. But women voters now give the edge on that
measure—having the experience, background and knowledge to be president
and vice president—to the Obama-Biden ticket over the McCain-Palin ticket
by a decisive 15 point margin (52% to 37%).
Translation, John? You wedded with wingnut segment of your party close to you.
As for women and Hillary voters, put your lips together and say buh-bye.
