latimesblogs.latimes.com - 8/21/2008
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The antipathy toward Barack Obama among some Hillary Clinton backers notwithstanding, he's doing well among the nation's women voters -- better, according to a new poll focusing on female voters, than Al Gore's adva ntage as summer was starting in 2000 or John Kerry's edge at a comparable period four years later.
But the pollster whose firm conducted the survey for EMILY's List ...
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McCain’s Glass More Than Half Empty?
Firedoglake —
... Because improving the nation and your own life is just too much work. Want more Republican failure and despair for your family? Vote McCain!
Oooooh...we have a winner.
Oh, one more thing: there were a number of media organizations who sat through the briefing yesterday -- in person in DC and on the streaming conference online. I have not been able to find one reference to this particular stat in any of the reporting. Not one. Not in the WaPo. Not the LATimes. Not Hotline. Not the Detroit Free Press. Not even ...
The GOP Glass Ceiling
The Mahablog —
... to a presidential ticket: 0
Number of women the Dems have ever nominated to a presidential ticket: 1
Even as the McCain campaign sorts through its selection of rich white men for the veep spot, it has put out an ad asking why Clinton was “passed over” and showing clips of her smearing Obama during the Endless Primary. I’m sure the Hillary Bitter Enders will embrace the ad as more proof that Hillary should have been chosen the nominee.
BTW, current polls show Obama beating McCain among women voters by 12 percentage points.
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