Why is Obama surging nationally-He's making huge gains among women-Gallup

[Tropics_Dude83]

But in recent days, the overall gap between Clinton and her only remaining serious competitor, Sen. Barack Obama, has been closing, and an analysis of the patterns of vote choice by gender shows that Obama's gains over the last 10 days have come disproportionately among women. Clinton has been losing more support from women than from men, in essence moving closer to a point where the "gender playing field" has been leveled.

The accompanying table displays the trend in vote choice between Clinton and Obama by gender for the three-day rolling averages of polls conducted over the last 10 days. Comparing the three-day average of polls conducted Jan. 18-20 to the three-day average of polls conducted Jan. 28-30 shows that while Clinton's level of support among men has essentially stayed the same, she has lost 8 points among women. At the same time, Obama has gained 6 points among men, but has gained even more -- 13 points -- among women.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/104104/Hillary-Clintons-Gender-Advantage-Over-Obama-Narrows.aspx

BRILLIANT move to be so gracious towards Hillary last night, Barack. This should help to continue to narrow the gap. Those who say he should have been an attack dog like Markos Moulitas miss the reason for the Obama national surge IMO.

[featherman]

1. Just read the kos piece... agree I thought his analysis faulty

Obama's trend line more likely to continue exactly because of his polite, friendly, and knowledgeable performance.

[aquart]

3. "Performance."

I so agree.

[featherman]

5. Cutesy. New to politics?

PERFORMANCE, noun, definition:

Working effectiveness: the way in which somebody does a job, judged by its effectiveness ( often used before a noun )

[ursi]

2. Love it! All my BFFs are for Obama!

[angie_love]

4. ...

I wonder what has happened? I thought snub-gate would've moved more women to Hillary. What do you think happened? We'll see what happens on Tuesday.