Associated Press poll: What gender gap?
A friend forwarded me a media advisory yesterday that DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards were holding a press call to demand that Mitt Romney pull his ad endorsing Indiana U.S. Senate candidate Richard Mourdock following his statement upholding the sanctity of life for children conceived in rape.
So I got on the call.
The schpeel was typical. Republicans are radically anti-choice. Republicans want to take away birth control coverage. “Mitt Romney threatens the future for women in America,” clamored Richards. “He and Richard Mourdock have pledged allegiance to the most extreme GOP platform in our lifetime, which would not only overturn Roe but also give rights to fertilized eggs.”
Richards said Romney would turn back the clock 40 years to the pre-Roe days, a new time regression, I noted. At other times she has said Romney would turn back the clock 50 years, and at still other times she has said Romney was stuck in a 70-yr-old time warp. So goes the Planned Parenthood fertility rights calendar.
But I digress.
Most interesting to me were the questions from reporters at the end. There were only a few. But they went somewhere unexpected, and they came from unexpected sources.
From a journalist at liberal Talking Points Memo: “What’s the thinking on the gender gap closing rather than expanding?”
And from a journalist at The Root, an online division of the Washington Post catering to African-Americans: “Why do you think this message hasn’t been gaining ground among women?”
The lame answer from a DNC spokesperson whose name I didn’t catch: “We had leads in both states and nationally, and demographics that were unsustainable. There was a gender gap 26-28 points that was never going to be sustainable. The natural contraction of these things shouldn’t be seen as anything but normal.”
I’ve been posting polls for months showing the “war on women” meme isn’t a Republican bra-burner. So shows the latest, currently spotlighted on Drudge, from the Associated Press. The new normal, I hope…
Those churning gender dynamics leave the presidential race still a virtual dead heat, with Romney favored by 47% of likely voters and Obama by 45%….
As the election nears, Romney has been playing down social issues and trying to project a more moderate stance on matters such as abortion in an effort to court female voters. The AP-GfK poll, taken Friday through Tuesday, shows Romney pulling even with Obama among women at 47-47 after lagging by 16 points a month earlier.
[Top photo via Drudge]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Somebody really should explain basic biology to Ms. Richards. Once fertilization has taken place, what you have is no longer an egg, fertilized or otherwise. You have a newly created human being with distinct DNA that the egg never had on its own. The term “fertilized egg” is just inaccurate.
Why do so many people of my gender think they should have a legal right to kill their children? This is upsetting to me. I’m not a misogynist. I’m not hateful, or angry towards our gender because of this. It makes me sad, because I know we are so much better than this bloodshed.
Hey, where’s Ex-GOP lately? Spending time stumping for Obama in WI, I suppose?
Meanwhile, how’s this for editorial retribution and, frankly, artful publishing?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A6C-2WJCYAAd312.jpg
;-)
rasqual-
He’s got his work cut out for him. I’m stumping for Romney on the southeast side of the state. ;)
There’s a really big opportunity for republicans.
As women, we have been anesthesied on the real issue, which REAL justice seeking women are hungry to see addressed, which is where is the Real Choice? It was pointed out to me this morning by a wise woman, that “The Choice” is not a plurality, as in there’s more than one, ‘choice.’
Aobrtion’s not being sold as one of a number of options, but as the numbers show, Planned Parenthood especially, is offering it up as the only ‘choice.’
It’s not a choice at all. And it has been forced, cajoled, impressed, pressured and demanded, and MANDATED of alot of women.
Sure, women don’t want to have to be in relationships in which they feel enslaved to men who treat them like maids and sex-slaves, and let’s face it, like dogs. But in America that’s what we were always fighting against.
Susan B. Anthony wasn’t fighting for abortion.
Susan B. Anthony wasn’t fighting for women who wanted to be completely independent from men. Susan B. Anthony was fighting for REAL choicesn. As in, a voice. We are not the women of Obama and Richards.
We are the Daughters of the American Revolution, of the Civil Rights Movement.
Real women sacrifice for the next generation.
WE are America. THEY are just two people, who don’t know exactly how to fit the harness on such wild and crazy independent woman as is the American Christian woman, a free thinking denizen, not only by our birth right, and the grace of God, but by our own free will. That is being questioned by the Far Left, right now, and we need to answer those questions. No, we don’t want abortion-on-demand. You can have that back, Obama. We want policies that limit the unhealthy social product of abortion. We want what Susan B. Anthony wanted for women. Respect.
Hope both Mitt and Anne can read between the lines and see where this is going.
Neo-Democrats have been tying a noose for women. During the Obama administration abortion has risen 25% in this country. We need to appeal to our men in power to save our people, so that the Obamanation will inherit this platform these out of control, radical pro-aborts have built for all American women. ESTHER
DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards and HHH Sec Kathleen Sebelius are the biggest female racists in the USA. But the question remains, do they even realize it? Or if they do, what do they have to lose if the abortion industry were to shut down?
Yes, Jen, I totally agree. The proper use of “fertilized egg” in a sentence is like this:
After the egg is fertilized, a completely new person exists, with his or her own unique DNA.
This zygote doesn’t sit around, static and inanimate. No, it’s on a rapid journey of growth and development. When did I become me? At conception. Only when humans interfere with this natural process do you end up with storage units of zygotes that people have created via IVF. Yes, in that case the person is in a kind of “suspended animation” and I can see where pro-aborts, who are desperate to hold their position, use this concept to convince themselves that “fertlized eggs” are pieces of property. Gosh, where else in human history have PEOPLE been treated as PROPERTY? Some slave owners were willing to break the US in half over the issue of treating humans as chattel. I expect some of the pro-aborts are also willing to go very far to defend their position. Fortunately, I think the tide has turned against them.
rasqual,
Those front-page photos illustrate the reason for the closing of the gender gap. Body language is more impressive to females than to our duller eyes. Mitt is the happy warrior, and Obama has this beetle-browed scowl that is not very attractive.
That’s why the approximate draw of the third debate turned into a loss for him. It wasn’t as bad as Biden’s manic demeanor, but coupled with his unpresidential condescension it made Romney 3-0 (plus the Al Smith Dinner outperformance).
By the way, I heard from Michael Medved that part of the reason Ann was grasping Mitt’s waist was that he was feeling a bit sick and light-headed.
Funny, but it didn’t seem to affect him as badly as the altitude did Obama in the first debate! ;)
I didn’t realize that so many of us live in Wisconsin.
Rasqual – glad you’re looking out for me!
I hope we’ve all learned a few things on polls – the main one is we can’t cherry pick numbers.
Do we think that one poll, which shows that somehow Obama’s gender gap preference with women AND Romney’s gender gap preference with men have BOTH disappeared?
Certainly a point of data – but must see a few more polls before making any sort of declarations. Otherwise, it’s too easy to look at one poll, for instance, the Time/SRBI Ohio poll that puts Obama up by 5 in Ohio (which would pretty much assure Obama the White), and make big declarations based on ONE poll.