Women's rights activists have grown increasingly anxious that Sen. John F. Kerry (news, bio, voting record) is failing to shore up a key constituency after recent polls showed that female voters are backing him by just a small margin.
But the recent surveys have found Kerry up by as little as four percentage points over President Bush (news - web sites). In 2000, by comparison, Democrat Al Gore (news - web sites) beat Bush by 11 points among female voters — which was precisely Bush's margin over Gore among male voters.
The worried women's rights leaders say that Kerry's campaign has all but ignored female voters in its organizing and in its message. In recent days, campaign officials have acknowledged that they need to bolster Kerry's standing with women.
Several of the women activists said that as Kerry has tried to move to the political center and to project strength on national security, he had given short shrift to issues such as equal benefits and abortion rights.http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/latimests/20040919/ts_latimes/kerrysoncesizableleadwithfemalevotersslipsAnother for the "bad news" file from the LA Times.
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