Also, they don’t even hold an advantage among men any more.
The numbers…

I can’t remember when the split was this large, and Gallup’s numbers from the past 9 years bears that out…

And here’s the graph for men…

Remember, McCain lost by 9.5 million votes and Obama became the first Democratic nominee to garner above 50% of the [...]

Since I covered the Tea Parties today, I figured I should also cover a protest that’s much more in the spirit of what the Boston Tea Party stood for.
From NY Times:
KABUL, Afghanistan — The young women stepped off the bus and moved toward the protest march just beginning on the other side of the street [...]

I found this interesting nugget in Obama’s economic proposal…
Summing across industries suggests that the total number of created jobs likely to go to women is roughly 42% of the jobs created by the package.
Given that so far in the recession women have accounted for roughly 20% of the decline in payroll employment, this calculation could [...]

A powerful message about women in developing worlds…

Just something to think about on this day when we celebrate family, friends and abundance.
More here.

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Well…
This “sexist” term is being thrown around a lot these days, isn’t it? But is it accurate?
Well, I guess that depends on how Palin feels about it.
First, here’s Campbell Brown’s rant on Palin’s press shyness…

Hey, who knows…maybe Palin doesn’t want to talk to the press, right? Maybe she wants to be cloistered in her [...]

Why?
Well, as Ambinder notes, after months of Obama saying “he or she” in response to Veep questions, the candidate says “he” very specifically throughout the following answer.
From CBS:
Let me tell you first what I won’t do. I won’t hand over my energy policy to my vice president, without knowing necessarily what he’s doing. [...]

Not only has McCain’s latest celebrity attack ad gotten goofier, it’s also starting to reveal the particularly distasteful “white women like the black guy” tactic that Republicans have used in the past to scare voters away from African American candidates.

First, let me once again point out that McCain is just plain lying that Obama will [...]

Obama – 49%
McCain – 45%
Another key swing state poll shows it up for grabs.
Here are some gender breakdowns…
Gender – Male
McCain – 56%
Obama – 39%
Gender – Female
Obama – 59%
McCain – 34%
As we can see, Obama and McCain are taking women and men by fairly large margins, but McCain has 8 more points to make up among [...]

Obama – 50%
McCain – 44%
Obama picks up 1 today and maintains a pretty consistent lead for the past 5 days, as well as hovering right around 50%.
The 5 day:
06/12/2008: McCain – 44%, Obama – 50%
06/11/2008: McCain – 44%, Obama – 49%
06/10/2008: McCain – 43%, Obama – 50%
06/09/2008: McCain – 44%, Obama – 50%
06/08/2008: McCain – [...]

More evidence that the Dem base is starting to solidify?

(NOTE: Graphs fixed. Sorry for any confusion.)
Gallup provides additional perspective when you compare this to Hillary’s head-to-head numbers before she dropped out…
While campaigning for president, Clinton demonstrated an especially strong appeal to women. She led McCain by 52% to 40% in her final full week [...]

Courtesy of MSNBC.

Okay, the feed is down now, so a couple thoughts…

This was probably one of the better speeches she has given on the campaign trail, and she certainly hammered home the importance of not switching over to McCain. You could definitely hear the boo-birds when she first started saying his name, but they eventually [...]

No doubt he’ll get some of them, but will Clinton voters be jaded enough to vote for McCain instead of a Democrat in the fall?
From Politico:
John McCain portrayed her as a trailblazing model for aspring female politicians yesterday and now one of his top surrogates and vice-presidential prospects is taking the next natural step and [...]

Gee…I wonder why…
The Pew polls states specifically that Obama’s problems have more to do with personal reasons than politics, and in recent weeks Hillary has made this campaign ALL about how she’s getting cheated because of sexism in the media, etc. So who else are these white women going to point their finger at?
Here’s some [...]

Over at repptide, we’ve been taking the pulse of public opinion on a number of political issues.
So when Hillary Clinton started making claims that it was sexism that was to blame for her campaign’s second-place showing, we wanted to see if she was right or if there were other factors that could have explained her [...]

Kirsten Powers of the New York Posts wonders if Barack Obama can win Hillary Clinton’s female supporters who feel wronged by the events of the primary. She points out numerous cases of both overt and tempered sexism and notes one group, “Clinton Supporters Count Too”(some info here), is threatening not to vote if Obama is [...]

Obama wins every single other demographic, except the age and gender group Hillary belongs to herself. That’s telling in and of itself.
Here are the numbers…

The details…
The only major demographic group still supporting Clinton to the tune of 51% or more is women aged 50 and older. This group’s preferences have changed little during May, at [...]

Well, this is interesting:
The NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows 72% of those surveyed say voters are ready to elect a qualified black candidate, 18% say they’re not. Meanwhile, 71% say Americans are ready to vote for a woman, 20% say they’re not. But only 61% say the voters are prepared to vote for a [...]

We finally have some video, and Geraldine isn’t doing herself any favors.

As hinted at above, I think she digs herself deeper by saying the only reason she was chosen in 1984 was because of her gender. I’m sure she didn’t say that at the time. In fact, I’m sure she probably attacked those who suggested [...]