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July 11, 2008 1:26 PM

McCain Courts Women Voters

By
John Bentley
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John McCain
(CBS)
From CBS News' John Bentley

(HUDSON, WISC.) – While Hillary Clinton campaigned for Barack Obama yesterday, today John McCain tried to cut into Obama's lead among women voters. "Sen. Obama went on at great length about how much he cares about women's issues," McCain said at a women's town hall meeting here. "My opponent was saying all the right things, but the fact is this: when you cut through all the smooth rhetoric, Sen. Obama's policies would make it harder for women to start news businesses, harder for women to create or find new jobs, harder for women to manage the family budget, and harder for women and their families to meet their tax burden."

The latest poll numbers, however, show McCain's support eroding among women. Obama is leading among women voters nationwide by 51% to 37%, an increase of nine percent from two months ago, according to a poll released yesterday from the Pew Research Center.

Most of the questions from the audience, which was at least 90% women, were not about what are traditionally called "women's issues." They ranged from health care to energy to Guantanamo Bay, and included one woman who said she thought about all of the questions she wanted to ask, but settled on this one: "Is Brett Favre coming out of retirement?"

McCain did not have an answer, but he did talk about how important he thought professional athletes are in encouraging children to stay physically fit.

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by pjones501 July 12, 2008 4:16 PM EDT
*In this time of crisis, we need the Best.

We need Experience. We need Hillary and Bill.

Under the Clinton administration, the average income went from $43,000 to $49,000 a year. The budget was balanced and inflation, including oil and gas prices, were kept in check.

We can still have Hillary.

It IS up to US. All we have to do is let it be known that Hillary backers are NOT going to vote for Obama under any condition. Thats all it takes. If we don''t play thier game with them, there is no game and the candidate that most Democrats cast their votes for in the Primary will be the next President of the United States.
Write in Hillary''s name on the November ballot. Call your local voting place,
(on your registration card) and find out if you have to do anything special to receive a write in ballot. In some states you have to be registered as an
Independent. Do this before October 1st.

REMEMBER!! Obama is just the "presumptive" Democratic Candidate. The Super

Delegates, who can change their votes right up until the last minute, can

still make Hillary Clinton the Democratic Candidate at the Democratic National

Convention in August.

LET THEM KNOW YOU WANT HILLARY!!!!!
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by PacificGatePost July 12, 2008 3:49 PM EDT
OBAMA CANNOT POSSIBLY MEET EXPECTATIONS, EVEN HIS OWN ---

Obama%u2019s impossible road ahead:

http://pacificgatepost.blogspot.com/2008/07/why-obama-will-win-but-cant-deliver.html

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by pjones501 July 12, 2008 2:55 AM EDT
That''s right McCain and Romney WILL

beat Obama......now, Hillary on

the other hand....
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by ariel133 July 11, 2008 4:54 PM EDT
Polls for one are inaccurate. I am one of millions of women who strongly believe in a smarter USA and that is the change that will come with MCCAIN/ROMNEY
UNBEATABLE.
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by ariel133 July 11, 2008 4:53 PM EDT
Polls for one are inaccurate. I am one of millions of women who strongly beleieve in a smarter USA and that is the change that will come with MCCAIN.
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