Detroit News Poll: Obama up by 14% in Michigan
(prior poll had the Prez up by only 6):
President Barack Obama has opened up a double-digit lead over GOP challenger Mitt Romney in Michigan fueled by a wave of women moving toward the Democratic president following the national party conventions.
Obama leads Romney by 14.2 points, 52 percent to 37.8 percent, in the Detroit News/WDIV Local 4 poll, a solid improvement from August pre-convention polls in which the president held a six-point advantage, 48 percent to 42 percent. In this month's poll, 8.7 percent of voters were undecided.
Romney made a concerted pitch to women voters during the national GOP convention in Tampa, Fla., and Obama did the same at the Democratic convention in Charlotte, N.C. Both campaigns feature women prominently as surrogates or supporters at campaign stops. But poll results suggest the Democrats' convention lineup that focused heavily on women's health, and the federal auto rescue of General Motors and Chrysler resonated with independent females here. About 29 percent of Michigan women call themselves Republican, but women identifying themselves as Democrats shot up from 43 percent in August to 55 percent this month.
"Women … made a drastic move to the Democratic Party," said pollster Richard Czuba of Glengariff Group, Inc., which conducted the poll.
From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120919/POLITICS01/209190472#ixzz271d2NDc0
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