abcnews.go.com/Politics/record-shortfall...

'....Romney's gender gap in vote preferences in an ABC/Post poll last week -- he trailed Obama by 19 percentage points among women -- is reflected in his new favorability scores as well. Just 27 percent of women see Romney favorably, compared with 44 percent of men -- his lowest rating to date among women, and highest among men, in a dozen ABC/Post polls since September.

Obama, by contrast, has no such gap between the sexes; he's seen favorably by 56 percent of Americans overall, including 58 percent of women and 53 percent of men, surpassing Romney in both groups.'

Will American women decide our next President?

When was the ABC poll taken, and when was the Gallup Poll taken? The publication dates mean squat. These two posts illustrate perfectly why I distrust polls, especially political polls. I'd like to see what questions were asked in each of these polls.  Sometimes polls give conflicting results becausae the questions asked were either too general, too specific or just plain seeking different results. It's all too easy to word the questions in such a way that the answers are slanted in the direction the pollster wants. 

Apr 17, 2012 -- 9:07AM, Kwinters wrote:

abcnews.go.com/Politics/record-shortfall...

'....Romney's gender gap in vote preferences in an ABC/Post poll last week -- he trailed Obama by 19 percentage points among women -- is reflected in his new favorability scores as well. Just 27 percent of women see Romney favorably, compared with 44 percent of men -- his lowest rating to date among women, and highest among men, in a dozen ABC/Post polls since September.

Obama, by contrast, has no such gap between the sexes; he's seen favorably by 56 percent of Americans overall, including 58 percent of women and 53 percent of men, surpassing Romney in both groups.'

Will American women decide our next President?

Probably not. The vote of any block of people isn't very important nationally, where you vote by state. The "gender gap" isn't nearly as bad in the South as it is in other parts of the country, and that will play well for Romney. The question know one bothers to ask, is why the white male vote has fled the Democratic Party.

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