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Romney closing gender gap, leads by 4% pints
Tuesday October 16, 2012 10:20:11 AM,
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Washington: Thanks to
growing enthusiasm among women, Republican candidate Mitt Romney
now leads President Barack Obama by four percentage points among
likely voters in the nation's top battlegrounds, according to a
new poll.
As the presidential campaign heads into its final weeks, the USA
TODAY/Gallup Poll of voters in 12 crucial swing states found
female voters much more engaged in the election and increasingly
concerned about the deficit and debt issues that favour Romney.
Romney has pulled within one point of Obama among women who are
likely voters, 48 percent-49 percent, and leads by 8 points among
men.
The battle for women, which was apparent in the speakers
spotlighted at both political conventions this summer, is likely
to help define messages the candidates deliver at the presidential
debate Tuesday night and in the TV ads they air during the final
21 days of the campaign, the poll said.
As a group, women tend to start paying attention to election
contests later and remain more open to persuasion by the
candidates and their ads, it said.
That makes women, especially blue-collar "waitress moms" whose
families have been hard-hit by the nation's economic woes, the
quintessential swing voters in 2012's close race, the poll said.
"In every poll, we've seen a major surge among women in
favourability for Romney" since his strong performance in the
first debate, veteran Democratic pollster Celinda Lake was quoted
as saying.
"Women went into the debate actively disliking Romney, and they
came out thinking he might understand their lives and might be
able to get something done for them."
While Lake believed Obama retains an edge among women voters, the
changed views of Romney could be "a precursor to movement" to the
Republican candidate, she says. "It opens them up to take a second
look, and that's the danger for Obama."
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