Clinton owes lead to support from women

[Roon]

Democratic candidate beats Obama by a 2 to 1 margin among female voters

The consistent lead that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York has maintained over Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois and others in the race for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination is due largely to one factor: her support from women.

In the most recent Washington Post-ABC News poll, Clinton led Obama by a 2 to 1 margin among female voters. Her 15-point lead in the poll is entirely attributable to that margin. Clinton drew support from 51 percent of the women surveyed, compared with 24 percent who said they supported Obama and 11 percent who said they backed former senator John Edwards of North Carolina.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19159179/

[robcon]

1. That's the same thing as saying Obama's strength is among men

So what?

[Toots]

6. No it isn't

One does not necessarily make the other true. Clinton gets the same amount from men as does Obama but then pours it on with her extraordinary support from women. When the shouting is over and Clinton and Obama form their inevitable team they are going to be unstoppable.

[MisterHowdy]

2. gender, is not a good reason to give someone your vote.

How a candidate will deal with things like economy, healthcare, education, foreign policy, etc...Is all that really matters. I think Hillary gets many votes just for being a woman,IMO, and thats not right.

I think Hillary is a very moderate and self interest oriented candidate. Of all the candidates I think she is the one least likely to create any real progressive change in the US.

I wish people would vote based on many issues, not just one.

[OzarkDem]

4. Majority of Dem voters are women

Most of them are pretty aware of candidates and issues, though as a voting bloc, they tend to be very busy people who often don't have the time to do in-depth research.

That said, they may be supporting Hillary because they've been screwed over so many times by men candidates who promised and didn't deliver. Women voters, particularly single women, pay much closer attention than women in previous generations and have a much wider range of issues than those the Dems have usually allocated to them (education, child welfare).

If Dems are to win in 2008 and pick up more seats, they need to get off their arses are do some work on attracting women voters. They've known it for years, they've just been too lazy.

[alkaline9]

7. I disagree, voting simply because she's a woman is understandable...

How many times has a women been president (in the USA)?
How many times has a woman run for president (in the USA)?

The way I see it, Hillary Clinton is the first woman to really have a chance at becoming president of the free world. If the fact that women have been (and throughout the world continue to be) repressed seems wrong, why wouldn't women vote to elect the first female president of this country?

The fact is, there are more women than men in this country, yet there has never been a woman in the oval office... why not? I think once women find their own answer to that very question, they realize that if they don't vote a woman into office, no one will.

So then, why NOT Hillary? She's certainly no Condoleezza (which is a great thing!). She's already spent 8 years in the whitehouse, and many in other branches of gov't. She is just as qualified (if not more qualified) as all the male primary opponents. She is very intelligent (a nice change from the chimp), well spoken (ditto), strong, and determined. Her policies are not far off those of her strongest Dem opponents, so, I have to ask, why WOULDN'T women vote for her???

(for the record, she is not my nominee of choice, but I would love to see a woman in the whitehouse!!!)

[Bitwit1234]

3. Or Obama's high poll scores are from black voters or

Edwards support is from the south. If Clinton wasn't a woman she would be higher in the polls. MEN in this country are just too damn macho to support her.

My brother is a life long democrat. But because a woman was running for governorship he voted for the republican MAN because he said a woman couldn't handle the job. The republican man flopped and they wanted to recall him, would to if the state allowed it.

[KurtNYC]

5. Gotta love the inverted headlines

"Bush endures critics"
"Hillary owes" her supporters? "owes"?