# Obama winning women over **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [June 12, 2008, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-winning-women-over/452668 "2008-06-12T10:21:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-winning-women-over/452668/1 "2008-06-12T10:21:35Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-winning-women-over/452668/2 "2008-06-12T11:12:00Z")
Obama also leads in other perhaps surpising categories as well: Blue collar workers: 47-42 Clinton primary voters: 61-19 Hispanics and latinos: 62-28 ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-winning-women-over/452668/3 "2008-06-12T12:01:13Z")
Early, yet, Lib. Early. It’s a long four+ months to November and we’ll all be astonished at the trials, tribulations, and surprises we’ll find along the way. ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-winning-women-over/452668/4 "2008-06-12T12:07:22Z")
I agree there is a lot yet to come out for both side. However, I will say I think this election is heavily favoring the dems. The season is ripe for a non-republican president. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-winning-women-over/452668/5 "2008-06-12T14:19:06Z")
He may get a boost from women reacting with outrage to crap like [Fox News calling Michelle “Obama’s Baby Mama”](http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/06/11/fox_obama/index.html). Yep, folks, it’s gonna get nasty, real nasty. I just hope the hatemongers discover they’ve overplayed their wornout hand this time. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-winning-women-over/452668/6 "2008-06-12T14:26:18Z")
Please permit me to gloat that, in a libertarian society, what Fox News has done with this election would constitute fraud.