Wake-up Call for Obama’s Sexist Left-Wing Supporters: McCain-Palin Ticket Makes Huge Inroads Among Likely Women Voters

The Politico’s David Paul Kuhn has a wake-up call this morning for Obama’s trash talking, left-wing supporters: ‘“Since picking Sarah Palin as his running mate, John McCain has obliterated what had been a 34-percentage-point deficit in a poll of likely women voters on the question of which candidate has a ‘better understanding of women and what is important to them. ’”

Kuhn follows up with some shocking details:

“The two are now effectively tied, with McCain's 44 to 42 percentage lead within the margin of error of the most recent poll conducted by pollsters Kellyanne Conway and Celinda Lake for Lifetime Television. In Lifetime's July poll, women preferred Barack Obama on the same question by nearly three-to-one— 52 to 18 percent.

“In this latest poll, conducted Sept. 11-15, age remained a key determinant in response to the question about women’s concerns. Young women, ages 18-34, chose the Obama/Biden ticket as more empathetic to their needs, while women aged 35-64 went for McCain/Palin. Unlike black and Hispanic women, White women saw McCain and Palin as most understanding of their concerns.

“About one in four women who supported Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in the primaries now said McCain and Palin have a better grasp of women’s needs than Obama and his running mate, Sen. Joe Biden.

“The Lifetime poll reveals a diversity of women’s views on several issues, with many of those differences related to a respondent’s race, party identity, marital status and generation.”

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Democrats Paying a Price for Abusive Treatment of Hillary Clinton

David Paul Kuhn at Politico has provided in detail five good reasons why John McCain is leaving Barack Obama in the dust in mid-September ’08. And don’t look now, but thanks to Sarah Palin, the Democratic Party elite has begun to pay a price for its abusive treatment of Sen. Hillary Clinton throughout the primary.

Kuhn begins:

“John McCain’s surge in the polls comes even as Barack Obama has inherited the most favorable Democratic environment since the Watergate era—an unpopular Republican president, an unpopular war and a flagging economy.

“Suddenly, though, Democrats have found themselves in a world turned upside down, where Republicans have the momentum from running on change—and the latest wunderkind of presidential politics.

“Below are five trends showing up in polling that help explain the change.”

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