Women’s Vote Clinches Election Victory: 8 Million More Women Than Men Voted for Obama »
Posted By Varadinum 1 year ago in Political NewsAnalysis of preliminary CNN exit poll data shows that the gender gap in voting helped to bring President-Elect Obama to victory. Nationally, 56 percent of women (who were 53 percent of voters) voted for Barack Obama compared with 49 percent of men (who were 47 percent of voters). Nationwide, it is estimated that Senator Obama received 35,900,000 votes from women and 27,800,000 votes from men.
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Dobes_Rule1 year ago
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Yup...them there ignernt mothers that lost their children due to hillbilly freaks like yourself that get behind the wheel of yer pickup after downin' some local moonshine and take out innocent lives!
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You are quite obviously one very, very bitter male....cuz I'm quite certain no female in their right mind would put up with your chit.
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Mdiar1 year ago
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Maybe, but I think alot of it had to do with the fact that women are socially liberal in general. This is probably due to the fact that they have fought alongside all the groups that are still fighting for equal rights, at one point or another.
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I'd also like to point out that kids breaking hard for Obama is what delivered several states for President-elect Obama. Virginia comes to mind, here. They also voted strongly against banning gay-marriage when it came up, I believe. Kids aren't anymore intelligent, they just have far less fear of the unknown, are multicultural and tend to have a more global perspective (you try growing up in the age of the internet).
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beavith11 year ago
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what i'm struggling to understand is that if all these demographics broke O's way, how come the final popular percentage was 52-48?
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i don't know how many articles i've seen that breathlessly extolled on how this or that demographic was the key deme that threw victory to O.
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Mdiar1 year ago
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It was 53-46 not 52-48.
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Votes are still being counted as well. The day of the election it was 52-47 I believe and its been expanding slowly for Obama.
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/president...
They still haven't included Omaha for Obama, but not called MO either. They have popular vote totals.
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CORVIDIVS1 year ago
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AN INDICATOR PERHAPS OF OBAMA'S...
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sensitive, like,feminine side... meow....
What hasn't escaped my notice,however,is an apparent soft-shoeing of the prop 80 thing on 'prop'.Unless any threads have been shoved way down cue due to 'lack of interest'...-
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Poulenc1 year ago
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I know--yes, even count as friends---some conservative women, and a few "defected" to Obama, mostly because of, not despite, Palin.
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There's also the issue of abortion. It's hard for me to imagine how a woman, any woman, could support a party that would deny them the right to do with their bodies as they wished. A position of great condescension.
And the majority of those who were pro-Hilary didn't defect because of gender, but stayed with the party that best represented their interests.
On the other hand, man--by which we must mean the straight white majority--would more easily be defensive about Obama, not only because of race, but because of his blissful lack of aggressive bellicosity, which quality seams to signal "real man" to (too) many.
The testosterone set would also have a hard time bellying up to the bar with someone who leads with his head, rather than with might.-
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jaern1 year ago
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I can't remember which News program I was watching prior to the election but they were interviewing undecided voters in MO. One older woman was torn, part of her wanted to vote for Obama because he was young and offered promise but "her religious side" was telling her to vote for McCain because of his view on abortion. I found it odd that people who strongly believe in Right to Life would vote Republican when they are just ending 8 years of Bush who didn't overturn Roe V. Wade or that Gay Marriage amendment to the Constitution he promised them in 2004.
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