Wow, looks like that Gender Gap is about to grow into a roaring Chasm.
http://thinkprogress.org/...
The majority of female voters don’t want to vote for politicians who support Hobby Lobby’s move to drop coverage for some forms of contraceptives, according to a new poll conducted by Hart Research Associates. Although the crafts chain won its recent Supreme Court challenge on religious liberty grounds, the results suggest that candidates may not win their races with the same stance.
Fifty seven percent of respondents told pollsters that they’d be more likely to support a candidate who opposes allowing employers to drop birth control coverage, and about half of them said they feel “very strongly” about that preference. An even higher number, 71 percent, said that elected officials who support the Hobby Lobby ruling are focused on the “wrong issues and priorities.”
Oh Dah-yamm... 71%?
I wonder if that number reflects a lot more than just Democrats? Let's see.
The distaste for pro-Hobby Lobby candidates isn’t limited to voters who identify as Democrats. About 55 percent of independents said they were more likely to support politicians who oppose allowing companies to refuse to cover contraception, versus just 20 percent who said they would lend their support to a politician who supports that policy. Republican women are about evenly split, with 34 percent preferring candidates who oppose the Hobby Lobby ruling and 38 percent preferring candidates who favor it.
So this
35 Point Gap with Independants would seem to indicate that the much valued and coveted "
Swing Voters" are heavily trending our way on this while Republicans remain neutral and largely unmotivated either way.
That's a big plus for closing the enthusiasm gap, and giving us a shot - merely a shot - at draining the gerrymander swamp this November.
The fact is that women, and people who care about reproductive issues, are still pretty Pissed the Heck Off about Hobby Lobby.
“This poll shows that women are focused on the Hobby Lobby ruling, they’re angry about it, and they’re going to vote based on it this November,” Dawn Laguens, the executive vice president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, said in a statement. The survey was commissioned on behalf of Laguens’ group, which is spending millions of dollars this election cycle to focus midterm races on women’s health issues.
Combine this with the growing disgust for the House Lawsuit against Obama for implementing a policy that the House Republicans had been
screaming for and we just have a very different electoral landscape in four months than we might have previously believed.
Vyan