http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/10/15/clintons_team_says_women_will_carry_win/Clinton's team says women will carry win
By Marcella Bombardieri, Globe Staff | October 15, 2007
Buoyed by her strong lead among women in polls, Hillary Clinton's advisers are predicting that women will carry her to victory in the Democratic primary and that, if they do, they will turn out to vote for her in historic numbers in the general election next November.
The senator from New York is intensifying her focus on the female demographic with a series of women-focused events planned for this week, including an announcement in Manchester, N.H., tomorrow of a program to help working parents, an appearance today on the talk show "The View," and a fund-raiser and issues conference in Washington on Wednesday.
A memo to be made public today by Clinton's chief strategist, Mark Penn, contends that women will be the deciding force in the 2008 elections, and says the campaign's internal polling shows that 94 percent of women under 35 said they would be more likely to vote in the November election if the first woman nominee is on the ballot. Women represented 54 percent of the voters in 2004, but if Clinton is on the ticket, she can boost that majority by another point or two, Ann Lewis, a Clinton adviser who focuses on women's outreach, predicted yesterday.
On the campaign trail, Clinton often earns her biggest applause when she talks about how excited she would be to be the first woman president. Women who come out to see her cite her gender as a major source of their enthusiasm.
In fact, women make up 65 percent of voters who attend Clinton's rallies, Penn writes. And they are a majority of her smaller donors.
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