False Reports: GOP Not Losing Women in Contraception “War”
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on April 4th, 2012 5:58 pm by HL
False Reports: GOP Not Losing Women in Contraception “War”
New York Magazine's Frank Rich argued last week that there is, indeed, a “full-fledged Republican war on women.” Rich asserted that this latest cultural debate is costing the likely Republican nominee, Mitt Romney, women's support. He cited a single poll to prove his point. In March, Barack Obama ran ahead of Romney among women in the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, 55 percent to 37 percent. That does look bad. But what share of women supported Romney before the debate over contraception coverage in the new national health care law? Essentially the same share. In…
Dems Helped Keep Santorum Close in Wisconsin
According to exit polls, Mitt Romney beat Rick Santorum among just about every demographic of Republican voter in the Wisconsin primary on Tuesday. In addition to his standard, large margin of victory among high-income, well-educated, and less-ideologically-driven Republicans, Romney also beat Santorum among voters making less than $50,000 a year and those who lack a college degree. Romney even eked out a small advantage among Wisconsin GOP primary voters who described themselves as “very conservative.” Santorum did beat Romney by 4 percent among self-described evangelical or…
