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Women 'Obama defectors' could swing race
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 10/30/12 | Carla Marinucci, Chronicle Political Writer

Posted on 10/30/2012 8:36:24 AM PDT by SmithL

With polls showing that Republican Mitt Romney has significantly eroded President Obama's once-robust lead among women, both parties have turned their attention in the final days of the 2012 campaign to a key slice of the women's vote that could be crucial to victory - millions of potential "Obama defectors."

Women who voted for the Democrat in 2008, and are considering jumping ship this year, are a target of impassioned campaigning as Republicans and Democrats aim for the margins in battleground states.

Nancy Keenan, who heads NARAL Pro-Choice America, the nation's largest reproductive-rights advocacy group, said Monday that her organization has developed a sophisticated model of the "Obama defector" female voter, who in the final days of the race will be micro-targeted in key counties in Colorado, Virginia and six other swing states, she said.

The organization has identified 5 million female "Obama defector" voters nationwide, Keenan said, including 3 million in battleground states and 400,000 in battleground counties, she said.

Keenan said she is heading to Ohio, a must-win state in the election, and may be there for the duration of the campaign.

"We have gone into battleground states and counties that are going to make the difference - by literally 1 percent, or a half-percentage point," she said. "This election will be won by women."

For pro-choice advocates like Sandra Fluke - who spoke to a standing-room-only crowd of 700 at the NARAL Pro-Choice America's "Power of Choice" fundraiser in Palo Alto Monday - the battle comes down to reaching women voters with a message about Republicans.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: electon2012; ladyparts
Desperation
1 posted on 10/30/2012 8:36:32 AM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

So now if you decline to reinstate The One you’re a “defector”?


2 posted on 10/30/2012 8:40:00 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: SmithL

I think working women are now saying....Pay for your own contraception, pay for your own abortion, pay for your own food, shelter, clothing.........GET A JOB !!!!!


3 posted on 10/30/2012 8:43:22 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (r)
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To: SmithL

Looks like ‘O’ has spent a little too much time talking about women’s reproductive organs, rather than their brains… Whoever the Democrat strategist who dreamt up the ‘let’s talk about their parts’ strategy, rather than a ‘job strategy’ for women blew it big time.


4 posted on 10/30/2012 8:44:40 AM PDT by jerod (Pro-Abortion Gun Control Freaks & Environmental Nuts who hated Capitalism? The Nazi's)
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To: SmithL
There's a lot of women who are socially conservative but economically liberal. Keep pushing the abortion on demand rhetoric on them and see what happens.

Go to a Right to Life event sometime.

5 posted on 10/30/2012 8:56:23 AM PDT by Darren McCarty (Holding my nose one more time to get rid of Eric Holder)
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To: SmithL

Perfect Commie Rat imagery: defector

All of the “defectors” I have ever heard of from were from Communist countries.

So it is only appropriate that women would be “defecting” from Obama’s Commie Rat camp.


6 posted on 10/30/2012 9:07:52 AM PDT by RatRipper (RE Obama: Romney just can't beat the lying, commie SOB bad enough to suit me. . . .)
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To: SmithL; All
Exodus: Inner City Blacks Fleeing Obama, Democrats (Must Watch Video!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2952048/posts

here, too!.....

7 posted on 10/30/2012 9:12:32 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Anger a Conservative by telling a lie; Anger a Liberal by telling the truth. - RWR 8-)
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To: SmithL

Obama and the Dems thought that their lead among women was concrete, so they started all this “Vote with your lady parts” crap that REALLY alienated many, HEAD strong women!

I hope they keep it up!


8 posted on 10/30/2012 9:15:54 AM PDT by ExTxMarine (PRAYER: It's the only HOPE for real CHANGE in America!)
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To: SmithL

The left has always viewed women as mindless, rutting, sluts whose sole goal in life is to get laid every day. I wondered how many decades it would take before the ladies (and I use that term loosely) would figure that out and finally be insulted. This contraception, “lady parts”, angle could have backfired on them. About time.

Why don’t Fluke, etc., focus on comparing Obama and Romney when it comes to the salaries and treatment of the women who work for them?


9 posted on 10/30/2012 9:34:42 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: SmithL

Bump!


10 posted on 10/30/2012 11:46:14 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: SmithL

You’d think that women who claim to be for “women’s rights” would campaign against a man and his self-proclaimed “muslim faith”.


11 posted on 10/30/2012 12:05:26 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (People will vote for Obama to replace a god that they don't believe in)
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To: SmithL

Hopefully some of these vile women won’t vote:

http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/30/michael-moore-moveon-org-video-features-dirty-mouthed-old-people-lambasting-republicans-romney/

Sad that hateful democrats don’t even know that Democrat voter fraud is what steals elections.

I truly thought this was a parody of mean Democraps, but I think the maker of this vid is serious.

Doesn’t Chubby Michael Moore know this type of evil will backfire on him?


12 posted on 10/30/2012 12:52:25 PM PDT by AlanGreenSpam (Obama: The First 'American IDOL' President - sponsored by Chicago NeoCom Thugs)
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To: SmithL

Hopefully some of these vile women won’t vote:

http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/30/michael-moore-moveon-org-video-features-dirty-mouthed-old-people-lambasting-republicans-romney/

Sad that hateful democrats don’t even know that Democrat voter fraud is what steals elections.

I truly thought this was a parody of mean Democraps, but I think the maker of this vid is serious.

Doesn’t Chubby Michael Moore know this type of evil will backfire on him?


13 posted on 10/30/2012 12:55:58 PM PDT by AlanGreenSpam (Obama: The First 'American IDOL' President - sponsored by Chicago NeoCom Thugs)
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To: SmithL
"This election will be won by women."

Catholics. Always Catholics.

14 posted on 10/30/2012 12:57:29 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (2008 + IN, NE1, NC, FL, VA, OH, CO, IA, NH = 285EV)
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To: SmithL

I’ve been waiting for the women, old people and homosexuals to come to their senses/s.


15 posted on 10/30/2012 1:01:01 PM PDT by sanjuanbob
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To: SmithL
For many otherwise sensible women I know, it's all about universal, government-mandated health insurance. I hope at least some of them finally realize that full implementation of Obamacare will irreversibly damage their own, their husband's, and their children's economic prospects for the foreseeable future.
16 posted on 10/30/2012 1:20:50 PM PDT by riverdawg
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