Rasmussen Survey: Republican women support Hillary Clinton but not Democratic men

[Iceburg]

www.associatedcontent.com/article/430821/survey_republi...

Rasmussen survey report show that Hillary Clinton has the support of a good number of Republican women, but she loses just about the same level of support from Democratic men - and 18% gain from the women and as 20% loss from the men.
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The Rasmussen Reports released state polling data that bears out the same gender gap trends in Ohio, Michigan, and North Carolina.
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In the eight head to head polls that are used in this report, Clinton's best was the poll where she picked up 25% of the support from Republican women and her weakest was the one where she got just 10%
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Another Rasmussen Reports survey shows that most Americans say they are willing to vote for a woman for President. However, they are less sure about their peers. This is especially true among senior citizens.

more at above link

[Captain Hilts]

1. Republican women don't support Democratic men? Just kidding! nt

[VarnettaTuckpocket]

2. Republican women aren't so bad.... for Republicans

They were oddly a big chunk of the audience for Will & Grace.

[Iceburg]

5. A lot of them are big time Ellen supporters too! /nt

[VarnettaTuckpocket]

8. Ellen recently dethroned Oprah as the most loved TV personality

Oprah had been #1 for many years, this is the first time Ellen took the top position. She hasn't been very open about being gay on her show, but she touches on it occasionally, and increasingly, and of course everyone knows whatever the case. So her immense popularity is pretty surprising.

[HughMoran]

11. A Freeper woman at work loves Ellen

I don't' get it?

[Iceburg]

24. She appeals to a very broad spectrum of the population -- young & old, rich & poor and yes ...

Republican and Dem.

[Iceburg]

25. Video of Hillary on Ellen ...

Part 1 http://youtube.com/watch?v=SS-iVY3mmxg
Part 2 http://youtube.com/watch?v=fILfGVTwoQ0

[Zynx]

3. And people say sexism is dead.

[bunkerbuster1]

10. Women got the vote in Amurka 55 years after black men...

Something worth remembering now and again.

[Spider Jerusalem]

18. yet somehow one suspects that white women in 1920 and after....

never had to worry about getting lynched for daring to exercise their right to vote.

Just saying...

[bunkerbuster1]

19. I don't think they worried about that, either.

But I'm just saying, it's been acceptable to ridicule women for wanting to vote until much more recently.

And I've heard an asshat like Neal Boortz and his knuckle-dragging listeners, in 2008, seriously wishing for the days when women couldn't vote; such publicly uttered sentiments don't even rate official outrage in the press any more. Could anyone get away with saying such things about black folks today? I doubt it.

(But who knows...)

[Spider Jerusalem]

22. That depends on where you're talking about...

it was acceptable to do worse than ridicule blacks for wanting to vote in most of the South until much more recently than you seem to acknowledge...what do you think the Voting Rights Act was about? The 14th Amendment may have been ratified in 1868...doesn't mean it meant much of anything in practice.

[bunkerbuster1]

30. Please don't take my comments to mean I belittle the horrors visited upon black men

(and black women, and children, for that matter) who were murdered and tortured for standing up for their civil rights.

I'm just saying that America's institutionalized disenfranchisement of women went on longer than it did against blacks, and that making blatantly sexist remarks in 2008, IMHO, will get you far less grief than will making blatantly racist ones today.

[Straight Shooter]

28. Maybe if white women had had the right to vote and more political power ...

... it would have prevented a lot of that lynching. It was mostly white men that empowered slavery and discrimination.

I'm just speculating. It would take more research to determine to what degree white women promoted discriminatory practices.

[Proud2BAmurkin]

4. women will vote for a woman, men vote their wallets. Clinton has a huge advantage with gender

[okasha]

6. Well, t his should put an end to the meme

that Hillary can't bring in Republican voters, shouldn't it?

[McCamy Taylor]

7. Republican women have been sold out by their party, esp. on reproductive issues.

Also, women in the business world get tired of the glass ceiling. They would like to have the same chance to succeed as men.

I suspect that there are actually more GOP women who will vote for Hillary--they won't tell anyone in advance, though.

[UALRBSofL]

12. Very good point McCamy

:)

[Iceburg]

26. Could be part of the reason the Repub turnout is so low ...perhaps the women aren't turning out

I'll try to dig up some numbers.

[Yael]

9. It is even stupider to vote for a woman ONLY because she is a woman

than to vote against her on that basis.

No respect for either group who holds that as their priority/watershed.

[UALRBSofL]

15. It is even stupider to vote for a man ONLY because he is a man

than to vote against him on that basis.

No respect for either group who holds that as their priority/watershed.

[Yael]

17. Who here has said that they are voting against Hillary because she is a woman (or Obama because he

is a man)?

Please point this out because I have yet to see ONE person on this site state such a thing.

Thanks.

[VarnettaTuckpocket]

27. I didn't bookmark the post, but I do remember seeing

One guy say he looks at Hillary and imagines whether he'd like being married to her, and he said no way! And that's why he wouldn't vote for her. It made a woman who posted in response to him very mad. You'll probably claim that wasn't sexist, because he wasn't saying he wouldn't vote for any woman, just any that wouldn't make a good wifey in his mind. Who is going to come right out and admit they hate women here? They'd get tombstoned. But you're not denying misogynists post here, right? Well their misogyny creeps into their anti-Hillary posts at time, and that's been apparent to a lot of us.

[Yael]

29. Well, as a female who has not seen one iota of it here but who has been accused

as being sexist because I oppose a Hillary presidency (!!!), I will have to take what you say with a grain of salt.

Please -- if you do come across one, link it.

[Tom Rinaldo]

13. I've been saying this for a long time

And more Republican women will vote for Hillary than will admit to that in a telephone poll that their Republican husband may be able to hear them responding to. That number will grow if Hillary becomes our nominee and she comes under unfair attack, and you KNOW she will come under unfair attack.

[Barack_America]

16. Even if ALL of those Republican women were to vote for her...

Which is obviously not going to be the case. She's still going to have a really hard time overcoming that deficit with Democratic men. That's why I would love to see how this plays out in a head-to-head with McCain.

Interesting poll results, that's for sure.

[Tom Rinaldo]

20. I don't really think so

Democratic men right now are still under the influence of a tough primary campaign where there have been a number of quality male alternatives to Hillary to capture their enthusiasm. Feelings are still a little raw for Democrats because our contest is still very much open ended. If, when we select a nominee, it turns out to be Hillary, I think far more Democratic men will return will return to our fold than Republican women will to McCain's. For those to whom gender matters, Republican women are much more personally touched and excited by the prospect of Hillary becoming President than Democratic men are repelled by it.

[Barack_America]

21. I disagree.

There are many Democratic men, particularly in the Midwest, who will never vote for Hillary. It approaches a majority where I grew up. These men would be more than happy to vote for McCain, if Hillary were the alternative.

Sad, but true.

[Iceburg]

23. So are you saying that in a GE that an overwhelming number of Dem men would vote for

a Republican over Hillary?

[Barack_America]

14. I would love to see what happens to this in a head-to-head with McCain. n/t