Sarah Palin May Have Women Flocking - To Barack Obama

New York Daily News, Washington Bureau
September 8, 2008

If John McCain wanted to poach the women's vote from Barack Obama, he shouldn't have tapped a running mate who dubbed herself a "pit bull with lipstick."

At least, that's the assessment of women Democratic operatives who seem tickled at Obama's prospects for November.

"So much of the information about her agenda and her experience did not resonate with women voters outside the Republican base," said Ellen Moran, executive director of EMILY's List, which promotes Democratic women candidates.

There was a collective deep breath, and even a bit of shock, in the world where Hillary Clinton is queen after McCain turned Palin into the new sensation in the race for the White House.

But that soon was replaced by excitement, especially after the Obama campaign reported $10 million in donations the day after Palin's GOP convention speech.

"It's going to take more than delivering a line about lipstick to win over undecided women voters," said Rebecca Kirszner, a consultant with Hilltop Publics Solutions.

EMILY's List was perhaps the first to sing out about an opportunity rather than a threat from Palin, pointing to a poll it had done a couple of days after McCain selected the Alaskan moose huntress.

The survey of 800 women likely voters said Obama holds an 11-point lead on McCain, and that women Hillary voters in particular flooded the Illinois senator's way.

Before the Palin pick, Obama led McCain by 44 points among female Clinton backers. That jumped to a 54-point lead afterward, 75% to 21%, the poll said.

Those kinds of numbers have the activists thinking that if Palin lives up to her schoolgirl basketball nickname of Sarah Barracuda, she'll be less aquatic predator and more filet-o-fish.

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love it.

OMG the 'poll numbers' are all over the networks and 'due to Palin's favorable influence' on 'white women', McLame has supposedly had a 20 point bounce Blah Blah ...

I had a shitty enough day as it was, all this BS spin is just really making me :barf:

All the hype, all the worry about Palin, all the trolls coming by to stir things up, and yet women can see through the crap, at least if they are not already right wing wackos who would never vote for Obama in the first place. Sure maybe some of the republican women are "thrilled" to see a far right wing, religious zealot as VP, only a heartbeat away from being president, but any "sane" person would never want someone like Palin in the office of president, and democrats won't switch to her because of her radical views, independents won't either because they know the danger of having a religious fanatic in the whitehouse.

In a few more weeks the facts about Palin will be coming out, and then even some of her supporters not will be taking a second look at her, and it won't be good for McCain!

and she is a very conservative Democrat. She was livid that such a total twit was picked to be a Vice Presidential candidate, said she'd been leaning toward Magoo because of his many years of experience but anybody who could pick that as a running mate was obviously out to lunch.

Yes, there is going to be quite a backlash by election day. They'd better hope the fundies all turn out and vote in lockstep and that there are enough of them still in the fold to make the difference, because they've managed to alienate all the sane women in this country, conservative or not.

Personally, I think it's a rather vain hope with all the stuff that is coming out about Palin....or should be coming out if our party were smart enough to shop itself around to every talk show out there but Pox News talk shows. Fundies are no longer single issue voters, and Palin's views on the environment are alarming a lot of them.

The more the voters get to know that twit, the more they're going to loathe her and wonder about Magoo's sanity, which is exactly what needs to happen.

or more specifically the racist vote AND the republicans stealing the election electronically and basically saying that it was the racist who claimed to be voting for Obama but behind the curtain couldn't do it. I think it is safe to say that barring some huge October surprise, Barack will win easily. Whether or not the numbers reflect that is what still scares me.

The interview in this thread about Diebold http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x506712 was well worth the 30 minutes.