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Obama Making Gains With Some Women

By Christopher Weber
Jun 11th 2008 6:07PM

Filed Under:eBarack Obama, 2008 President, Polls

Gallup shows that Barack Obama's expected bump in the polls since Hillary Clinton dropped out comes mostly from women. In a seven point jump, Obama now leads John McCain by 13 points (51 to 38 percent) among female voters.

The Times suggests that while many Democratic women would have preferred Hillary, they're now realizing that when it comes to certain women's issues, Obama's views are closer to theirs than McCain's:
As the poll came out, a group of women who supported Mrs. Clinton held a conference call to begin a campaign to "sound the alarm" about Mr. McCain's record on women's issues as he tries to woo women voters himself.

The women –including Ellen Malcolm, the president of Emily's List, and Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Democrat of Florida - said some people think Mr. McCain is moderate on women's issues because he has occasionally been a maverick in the past but he is in fact quite conservative, especially on abortion rights. Mr. McCain favors overturning Roe v. Wade and voted against a bill to make it easier for women to file lawsuits seeking equal pay for equal work.
Of course, a group like that is only going to appeal to younger and/or more left-leaning urban Dems. It's the older, more blue-collar women that Obama desperately needs, and they're the ones most suspicious of him. And obviously that's exactly the group McCain will be trying to woo.

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