BY TAYLOR MARSH
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Since the primary season ended, unmarried women flocking to Obama continues.
From WVWV:
A recent poll of unmarried women in battleground states conducted by Greenberg
Quinlan Rosner and commissioned by the Women’s Voices, Women Vote Action
Fund underscores the critical importance of unmarried women to the progressive
base. This survey shows unmarried women moving to Obama in the post-primary
period and anchoring his support among women overall. Moreover, there is very
little drop-off in these women’s engagement in this election after the
Clinton loss.…Among likely (unmarried women) voters, Barack Obama holds a convincing
61 to 29 percent lead over John McCain in the presidential battleground. This
is a commanding lead and it reflects both movement toward Obama, and more
decisively away from McCain, in the post- primary period among likely voters.…As we see in the Gallup tracking, while Obama improved among married women
in the post- primary period, the Democrat still manages a 45 – 45 percent
“tie” with McCain. In 2006, married women split evenly in the
congressional elections and in 2004, supported George Bush by an 11 point
margin (44 – 55 percent Bush). In contrast, unmarried women consistently
delivered huge margins to progressives candidates, supporting Kerry 62 –
37 percent in 2004 and Democratic candidates by a 65 – 32 percent margin
in 2006. …
So, what does this say about the claims of the anti Obama zealots who once
supported HRC? I’ll let you answer that one.
The fact is that equal pay, women’s civil rights, health care and all economic matters, but including ending the war in Iraq, are very important to women, especially those who supported Hillary Clinton. As Hillary said so well, we have far more in common with Obama in policy prescriptions than we have differences. It’s just one reason Hillary endorsed Obama, and the majority of her supporters are following her lead.
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