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RealClearPolitics - False Reports: GOP Not Losing Women in Contraception "War"
RealClearPolitics - False Reports: GOP Not Losing Women in Contraception "War"
In the most recent NBC/Journal poll, which the Post cited, Democrats on the congressional ballot actually polled 14 points ahead among women. What about before the debate began? Democrats had a 15-point advantage with women in the same poll, on the same question, in mid-January.
The reporter, like Rich, cited a singular poll to prove Romney was losing women over the course of this debate. She noted that Romneys female support stood at 37 percent in the mid-February CBS News/New York Times poll. But a month earlier, Romney performed only two percentage points better with women in the same poll -- a shift also within the margin of error.
By mid-March, on the other side of the contraception debate, Romneys standing with women returned to precisely where it was before the controversy, 39 percent.
Republicans should be concerned. The GOP nominee cannot win with only 37 percent of the female vote. Yet early head-to-head polls are not historically predictive. George W. Bush, like Romney, earned only 37 percent of the female vote in the CBS poll in February of 2000. But Bush won 43 percent of women on Election Day.