Poll: More women support ObamaPolling data suggest that women are more likely than men to hold unfavorable views of McCain and to say they support Obama over McCain. But a Pew Research Center survey in late May suggested that the Democratic nomination battle may have had consequences for Obama. That poll found Obama just slightly ahead of McCain among women, 47 to 42 percent, while the two were nearly even among men, 47 percent for Obama to 46 percent for McCain.
Democrats are now taking heart from a Gallup daily tracking poll, which shows Obama making greater gains among women than men since Clinton left the race. "Obama's lead among women has now expanded from five percentage points to 13, while his deficit among men has shrunk from six points to two," Gallup reported.
The Planned Parenthood Action Fund has started distributing material advertising that McCain supports overturning Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion, and has opposed federal funding for comprehensive sex education at home and family planning overseas. It has given the senator a zero percent lifetime voting rating on women's issues. And Obama is likely to include a new section on women's issues in his stump speech, Dunn said, now that "he has a very different opponent" than Clinton.
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