"How Ohio Could Swing the Election" by Liz Halloran at NPR
How Ohio Could Swing the Election
by Liz Halloran at NPR
http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/10/11/162732594/ways-ohio-could-swing-the-election
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"I think the debate clearly mattered," says J. Ann Selzer, the pollster who directed the telephone poll. Selzer's survey found that married Ohio women, a demographic dominated by white women, preferred Obama's stances on reproductive rights and also said he better understood their problems.
But the married women, particularly those not working a full-time job, were moving toward Romney because they said they viewed him as more capable of grappling with the nation's economic problems even though by a 2-to-1 margin they said they supported the auto industry loans, and live in a state that is doing better than most economically.
What happened?
"What I would speculate," Selzer says, "is their support for Obama was soft, and that they're likely in a household with a husband who voted for [GOP presidential nominee] John McCain in 2008 and is for Romney now."
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