Women Heavily Favor Obama in Donations (WSJ)

[Nambe]

Source: Wall Street Journal

Women have donated twice as much money to Barack Obama than John McCain in the 2008 election, reversing past trends that favored Republicans, according to an analysis by the Women's Campaign Forum Foundation.


In the 2000 election, women donated twice as much to then-presidential candidate George W. Bush as to his Democratic rival, Al Gore. In the 2004 election, women donated about the same amount to Mr. Bush and to Democratic Sen. John Kerry. ...

Read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122213281072465941.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

[Skittles]

1. this is a good trend

for the record, I donated to Obama

[trotsky]

4. Whose ass were you kicking while you did it?

Inquiring minds want to know.

[orleans]

2. but...i thought all the older white women were voting mccain--

at least that's what the media keeps saying the polls are showing.

(yeah, right. suuure that's what the polls are showing.)

[readmoreoften]

3. Did you notice how the "white people won't vote Obama" polls were up three days straight over the

weekend?

You'd think they'd take a poll like that in--oh, i dunno--2005. Nice set up.

[llmart]

6. I'm an older white woman......

and I gave to Obama and intend to give more next week.

[orleans]

7. i know. i think with this economy crap we're all older white women now

and we're all voting obama!

[Zuiderelle]

9. Almost seems like the lie is to take away blame from older white men... who ARE favoring McCain.

[crossroads]

12. Not so... my gramma is voting Obama! She also donated $! nt

[SalviaBlue]

5. Oh, but I thought women favored the Palin/McCain ticket.

I trust this as an indictor of where women stand more than the polls.

recommended.

[hedgehog]

8. Now just think of where we'd be if women didn't make

70 cents on the dollar!

[Triana]

10. This one sure does. n/t

[NashVegas]

11. Can We Put the PUMA Stories to Bed, Now?