http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2012/0405/Mitt-Romney-s-problem-with-women-voters-views-from-a-battleground-state
In Virginia, a 2012 battleground state, women prefer Obama to Mitt Romney by 13 percentage points, polls show. Analysts say Virginia reflects the national outlook, which could bode well for the president come November.
For the Republican political experts slicing and dicing the electorate this presidential cycle, Christie Struckman is cause for extreme worry.
The McLean, Va., mother of two describes herself as a "radical centrist" and a reliable Republican voter who gauges a candidate's character and ability to reach across the aisle above all. She lives in Virginia's 10th District, a much-watched swing location outside Washington that helped elect President Obama in 2008 but sent a conservative governor to Richmond the following year.
Ms. Struckman has taken a good gander at the GOP candidates running this cycle and decided that no matter whom her party ultimately elevates, she will back Mr. Obama.
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"I'm not excited about any of the Republican nominees," says Struckman, a statistician and former college professor, during an interview outside the Spring Hill Recreation Center in Fairfax County. "I don't think any of the Republicans are particularly qualified."
Struckman represents – with only modest hyperbole – the holy grail in American politics today. Women vote in greater numbers than men, and in Virginia, considered by many experts to be a good indicator of the country's sentiment in the national contest, Obama's advantage in recent polling has buoyed the Democrats' hopes for November.
A Quinnipiac University survey released in late March shows Obama defeating all the Republican candidates in Virginia; he has an eight-point advantage over former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the presumed front-runner. Among women, Obama edges Mr. Romney, 52 percent to 39 percent.
Women like Struckman, who are focused on education and issues like improving the nation's infrastructure, have perhaps been alienated by heated social debates dominating dialogue during the Republican primary contest. Some of the candidates have staked out controversial positions about access to contraception. Meanwhile, local discussion has grown rancorous over a Virginia bill – pushed by Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell – that would have mandated that women seeking an abortion must first have a transvaginal sonogram.
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So her reason for not supporting any of the candidates is because they are not particularly qualified. Not the strongest reasoning in my humble opinion. There are plenty of reasons to not vote for Romney or Obama. But whether they are qualified does not seem to be one of them. We don't exactly have Madison and Adams walking into Washington anymore.
The poll is troubling, but not in March and April. I believe the poll they keep citing came right after the comment from Rush, when there was a degree of anger over the contraception issue and people were lumping all republicans into the Santorum way of thinking. If the numbers hold strong in September, if I were Romney, I would worry.
Romney is way more qualified than candidate Obama was. Hadn't Barry only been a senator for like 2 years when he was elected to serve Bush's 3rd term?
Sorry, being a hedge fund manager doesn't qualify you to be president, any more than being a law professor does.
It does however, make you a really ty candidate in the middle of an economic crisis caused by... hedge funds.
Bain isn't hedge fund. It's a LBO take-over predator. It makes its money by loading up (leveraging) the target with debt that it sucks out as "mgmt fees", no matter if the target underperforms or fails.
Another Repug battle victory in their blatant War On Women, Vaginas, Female Sex
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Overturns Law Meant To Prevent Pay Discrimination Against Women
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) quietly signed a bill last night that repeals a law that gave women and others more power to challenge wage discrimination. The Equal Pay Enforcement Act, passed in 2009, gave employers more power to press charges against employers to challenge unfair pay practices, allowing people to plead their case in state courts, instead of the more costly federal court system.
The state legislature passed the Republican-backed repeal bill on party-line votes last week, and Walker waited until almost the last possible minute before signing it. As the Huffington Post’s Amanda Terkel explains, the Equal Pay Enforcement Act could have helped women in the badger state:
Women earn 77 cents for every dollar that men make. In Wisconsin, it’s 75 cents, according to the Wisconsin Alliance for Women’s Health (WAWH), which also estimates that families in the state “lose more than $4,000 per year due to unequal pay.” [...]
Sara Finger, executive director of WAWH, said that the repeal was a “demoralizing attack on women’s rights, health, and wellbeing.” “Economic security is a women’s health issue,” she said. “The salary women are paid directly affects the type and frequency of health care services they are able to access. At a time when women’s health services are becoming more expensive and harder to obtain, financial stability is essential to maintain steady access.”
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/201...er-gender-pay/
Walker doing as much damage as possible before his recall vote.
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