Maybe This Is Why We Haven't Seen SW Around?

**Nbadan** · 05-10-2005

The gender gap is now 25 years old and, according to recent polling, it is alive and well.

A Democratic polling memo released yesterday found that women, who voted for President Bush last year in large numbers, have begun migrating back to their traditional home in the Democratic Party as the public's agenda has shifted from homeland security and terrorism to domestic concerns such as jobs and the economy.

There has long been a gender gap between the parties, with women tending to vote Democratic in disproportionate numbers. Bush all but closed that gap last year, losing the female vote to Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) by three percentage points. But the memo pointed to a March survey that found women favoring Democrats when asked which party's candidates they would support if congressional elections were held today.

The memo, released by Lake Snell Perry Mermin & Associates Inc., found women picked unnamed Democratic congressional candidates over Republicans by a 13-point margin. It also found that several key groups of women who voted Republican last year are now evenly or almost evenly split between the parties. Married women are now evenly split, while white women favor Democrats by three percentage points. Kerry lost both groups by 11 points.

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Time to jump on the bandwagon folks! The Progressive Movement is gaining momentum and will soon be the next big thing. Now all the movement needs is a Southern Populist for Prez.

**Clandestino** · 05-10-2005

what would you expect a democratic memo to say? "even when the whole world supposedly hates bush, we still can't ing win"

**Extra Stout** · 05-10-2005

I guess Nbadan has come up with one way to spin it.

Another way would be, "Even though groups like women traditionally tend to identify more with the Democratic Party, when it comes down to actual voting, they just can't bring themselves to vote for whichever wild-eyed leftist/droning elitist the Dems nominated this time around."

**The Ressurrected One** · 05-10-2005

I guess this is why Howard Dean is breaking all records (low records, that is) for fund raising in the Democratic Party.