Yahoo News: Romney Closes The Gender Gap

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You know, we women have a real problem this year! We can either vote for little o and our right to not have the government meddle in our personal medical business (and have the nanny state dictate everything else to us), or we can vote for mittens and our right to keep the Constitution (specifically the 2nd Amendment) intact. I'll vote in favor of the Constitution; the other battle will be handled in time. But isn't is curious that the GOP, the purported party of smaller, less intrusive government, has in recent history grown the government at least as much if not more than the Dems, and wants to dictate medical policy to women? I believe that if they want to outlaw abortions and birth control for women then they should mandate that once a man fathers two children he is required to have a vasectomy.

Here's a list of everything that Obama has done to hamper your so-called Second Amendment gun-rights:

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God, the arms & munitions manufacturers have suckered you clowns and your bank accounts for the last 4 years, and you're still sucking up the Kool-Aid... :Koolaid:

Meanwhile:

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FredHayek wrote: Looks like Fluke was a fluke, with only 10 people attending her latest rally, American women are deciding jobs are more important than birth control mandates added to their health insurance.

Her "rally" was in a Sak N Save parking lot. Given the venue, I'm not sure how many more they were expecting.

http://www.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/articl ... ck_check=1

Low expectations? Even the Dems realize Fluke's 15 minutes are over. People have real issues to vote on like record high gas prices and an administration that has decreased drilling permits on federal land.

The poll also shows what other national polls have showed in recent days: the race is in a virtual tie with less than two weeks until the election. Romney has a slight lead, though within the margin of error, at 47 percent to Obama’s 45 percent among likely voters.

Voters are also more optimistic about the economy over the next year, as nearly six-in-ten likely voters see improvement. Last month, that number was 46 percent. The number of likely voters who think the unemployment rate will drop next year also rose 10 points to 42 percent.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/2012-pre ... n-20121025

Yep.... "Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics":

Presidential Polls Counter Romney Surge Myth

WASHINGTON -- New polls released on Wednesday and Thursday continue to show President Barack Obama holding narrow leads in a handful of critical battleground states, but running within a whisker of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney nationwide.

While Romney gained significantly in the wake of the first presidential debate in early October, the lack of a continuing trend over the past two weeks helps counter a theme in some campaign coverage that Romney's support continues to "surge" nationwide.

The most recent updates of the seven daily national tracking polls continue to split in terms of which candidate holds the nominal lead, ranging from a 4 percentage-point lead for Romney on the Rasmussen Reports automated tracking to a 3 point Obama advantage on the Investor's Business Daily/TIPP poll.

Wednesday also brought four new surveys in Ohio. Three of the four, from Time, SurveyUSA and Democratic pollster Lake Research, gave Obama leads ranging from 2 to 5 percentage points while the Rasmussen automated survey reported a tie.

Collectively, the trends of the past week provide a reality check to two myths that have emerged in recent campaign coverage.

The first is that Romney has been "surging" since the first debate. While the debate certainly boosted Romney's standing in the polls, trends over the past two weeks have been negligible, with the leader seesawing nationally within a range of roughly one percentage point. Over the same period, the standings within the key battleground states have also remained constant. Other poll tracking models have shown the same patterns.

The second myth is that the national and battleground states polls have produced widely divergent results. If we use the state estimates produced by the Pollster tracking model in the nine key battlegrounds (Iowa, Wisconsin, Nevada, Ohio, New Hampshire, Colorado, Virginia, Florida and North Carolina) to create a combined total vote based on the turnout in each state in 2008, we show Obama leading in across all nine states by a slim 0.6 percentage point margin (47.8 to 47.2 percent as of this writing; the estimated margin would be 47.9 to 47.2 percent if based on the 2004 turnout).

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/2 ... f=politics

Standard stuff... Rassmussen leans right; everything else leans middle or left...

[url=http://www.electoral-vote.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;]www.electoral-vote.com[/url], a lefty leaning website has Romney closing with Obama but still behind.

Ironically, polls sent gamblers to the sideline. "Prior to Gallup's introduction in 1936, newspapers had little to report about the election horse race other than the betting markets," Strumpf explains. "When scientific polls came along, newspapers had something to report other than markets they were oftentimes uncomfortable with."

The same discomfort led to states relegating such gamblers to outlaws. The Internet has given rise to new forums, however. As of this writing, betting at the three biggest prediction markets is as follows: Betfair has Obama with a 64 percent chance to win to Romney's 36 percent; Intrade has the president at 58 percent; and the Iowa Electronic Markets have the president at 59 percent. Oddschecker shows bookmakers to be even more bullish on Obama.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/keith-tho ... 11534.html

We'll see, won't we....

Yes, and while the Neanderthals and knuckle-draggers debate rape...(and how they've "agonized over it"--as if they had a f**king clue what it's like to have been raped), they think they're closing the gap on women.... Yeah, Okay... ... another endorsement comes out:



Washington Post endorsement: Four more years for President Obama