Will women decide this next election? And if so, for whom will they decide? An article on NPR yesterday said that Bush is winning the women's vote, in particular in the conservative swing states like Ohio, where they are coming out in droves to vote for Bush because he is against gay marriage.
A USA Today poll breaks it down thusly and calls it The 'marriage gap':
Bush Kerry Dem Advantage
Married women 54% 41% -13
All women 45% 50% +5%
Unmarried women 35% 60% +25
Marriage gap: +38
Source: gallup Polls from March-August 2004, including a total of 5,757 women who are registered voters,. Margin of error: +/- 2 percentage points.
This again, points to many of the swing states where there are more married than unmarried women. The questions are:
1. Does this surprise you?
Yes it does but I also realize that polls can be interpreted in all sorts of ways and are not necessarily accurate
2. Do you think gay marriage is really the reason, or is something else causing women to lean toward Bush?
I don?t know if gay marriage has anything to do with it. I hope not because there are much more critical issues than that -- like the damn war. Maybe it?s more that the wife is just going along with the husband, which is an equally horrifying thought
3. If you are planning to vote for a 3rd party candidate, does this information have any impact on you at all?
No