From USAToday:
Barack Obama has moved into double-digit leads over Republican John McCain in two new polls of women voters, suggesting he is drawing support from women who once backed Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Obama led McCain 51%-38% in Gallup polling of 2,263 registered female voters June 5-9. The 13-percentage-point lead among women was up from 5 points the previous week, before the Democratic nomination ended. Obama now matches Clinton’s performance against McCain, Gallup said Wednesday.
The Gallup results mirrored Obama’s 52%-39% lead among women in a Rasmussen Reports poll of 3,000 likely voters June 8-10.This is higher than Kerry’s 51-48 split with Bush in 2004!
Up for debate: will this disparity widen even further as women learn of McCain’s draconian views on women and their causes? I believe it will. MSNBC yesterday cited a new poll showing that a sizable number of women are unaware that McCain is anti-abortion. From a woman’s right to choose to health care for children, McCain’s policies will be unattractive to most women when they find out what they are.