Romney’s Women Problem
The gender gap is extremely deep for presidential candidate Mitt Romney. It’s a hole so deep it might not be able to climb out of it.
Romney’s biggest problem with women voters is among those with college educations and among those under 45. A new Washington Post/ABC News poll, for example, showed President Obama leading Romney by 57 percent to 38 percent among registered women voters, while Obama lagged with men, 44 percent to Romney’s 52 percent.
However, the gender gap was markedly bigger among college-educated women, 65 percent of whom supported Obama, compared to 52 percent of those without a college education. Same with age, with 63 percent of female voters 18 to 44 backing Obama, compared to 54 percent of those 45 and older.
As Ruth Marcus writes, “Outsourcing the job to his wife isn’t going to solve Mitt Romney’s problem with women voters.”
Tags: Mitt Romney, War on Women
And I’m not seeing those women coming back. I still can’t believe Republicans went after contraception. I also can’t believe that these guys who rant on and on about the price of gas and milk can’t see that contraception is part of a woman’s (and her partner/spouse’s) economy.