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Sarah Palin drives men wild. At her rallies, they show up by the thousands. They wave handmade signs that say “Dudes for Sarah,” and buttons that say “Proud to be voting for a hot chick.” Sometimes, they outnumber women 2 to 1. “Marry me!” they yell. What is it about some men? All a gal needs is high heels, big hair and a pretty face and they lose their doggone minds. Add a saucy dash of right-wing politics and they'll become your love slave. Look at Barbara Amiel or Ann Coulter. Or the Fox News babes. They've all got that...

It is not unusual for fans of Sarah Palin to shout out to the Alaska governor in the midst of her stump speeches. It is noteworthy, however, that the crowds are heavily male. “You rock me out, Sarah,” yelled one man, wearing a red-checked hunting jacket as Ms. Palin, the Republican vice presidential candidate, strode into an airplane hangar here on Thursday. He held a homemade “Dudes for Sarah” sign and wore a National Rifle Association hat. Kenny Loggins’s “Danger Zone” blared over the loudspeakers, and the man even danced a little — yes, a guy in an N.R.A. hat...

Sarah Palin, man magnet: McCain's veep pick is attracting men who backed Hillary & uniting GOP Saturday, September 13th 2008, 2:22 PM Getty Fifty-seven percent of men believe Palin is qualified to be vice president, compared with only 43 percent of women. Republican John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate was intended to lure women voters, but it's the guys who are actually getting hooked, new polls show. One CNN survey this week found that 62% of men have a favorable opinion of Palin - nine points higher than women. Similarly, 57% of men believe Palin is...

THE MOST remarkable fact of the 2008 presidential election is that it remains a close race. Democrats have not known such favorable political terrain since 1932, yet what should be a blowout is looking like a blanket finish. The fundamental reason is white men. Like Al Gore in the summer of 2000, Barack Obama is roughly splitting white women. But only 34 to 37 percent of white men support Obama, according to the Gallup Poll's latest weekly index of 6,000 voters. In fairness to Obama, he inherited the problem. Not since 1976, when Democrats last achieved a majority, has a...

BOSTON, Mass. - August 06, 2008 - In Massachusetts, the presidential race has taken a surprising turn. This week, a Suffolk University poll reveals that Republican candidate John McCain now leads his Democratic rival Barack Obama among Bay State men by a margin of six points. WBUR's Fred Thys canvassed opinion among male voters in Boston to find out why. TEXT OF STORY: FRED THYS: First, the context: this is still a safe state for Democratic presidential candidates. The Suffolk University poll shows that overall, Barack Obama leads John McCain by 9 points. But among Massachusetts men, McCain is now...

This message is for that oppressed, neglected, passed over, bitter, gun-toting group of people otherwise known as working-class white males: You really don't matter. To all the hand-wringing over Sen. Barack Obama's alleged problem with winning over the votes of those white men, let's counter with some other facts. Obama has a lot of company. John Kerry. Al Gore. Bill Clinton. Michael Dukakis. Walter Mondale. Jimmy Carter. Just to name the six most recent Democratic nominees who lost the white, working-class, male vote. In a matchup with Sen. John McCain, Sen. Hillary Clinton does no better than Obama among these...

Arianna Huffington started The Huffington Post with a read-my-lips-with-an-accent pledge: it would be an oasis of brainy progressivism, not a slash-and-burn hate site. That's a tough promise to live up to when you invite Hollywood mudslingers like Alec Baldwin and Bill Maher to the table. But even the women sling mud. Screenwriter Nora Ephron is starting out the week singling out white men as vile and ignorant boobs who shouldn't be allowed to pick the next president:

Republican Sen. John McCain has erased Sen. Barack Obama's 10-point advantage in a head-to-head matchup, leaving him essentially tied with both Democratic candidates in an Associated Press-Ipsos national poll released Thursday. The survey showed the extended Democratic primary campaign creating divisions among supporters of Obama and rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and suggests a tight race for the presidency in November no matter which Democrat becomes the nominee. McCain is benefiting from a bounce since he clinched the GOP nomination a month ago. The four-term Arizona senator has moved up in matchups with each of the Democratic candidates, particularly Obama....

It was probably inevitable. The historic contest between a woman and an African-American for the presidential nomination is now all about white men. Not that the white male voters asked for this. They’ve been uncommitted, supporting Hillary in one contest and Barack in the next. But all that hemming and hawing has turned them into the deciding factor in the big upcoming primary in Pennsylvania. Reporters are spread all over the state, searching for white men to interview. American Legion halls under siege! Both campaigns engage in extensive research, which reveals that white men are very concerned about the economy....

Male U.S. rock fans likely to vote Republican: survey Wed Apr 2, 2008 5:03pm EDT By Sue Zeidler LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - If you are male and a Led Zeppelin fan, chances are you may be leaning toward voting Republican in the U.S. presidential election, according to a survey of rock radio fans released on Wednesday. The Jacobs Media's Media/Technology Web Poll IV of more than 27,000 respondents cited stronger than expected interest in the November 2008 election among fans of rock, classic rock, and alternative radio stations. It also found that John McCain, the Republican candidate for U.S. president,...

WASHINGTON - In the fierce campaign between Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, a battle dominated by issues of race and gender, white men have emerged as perhaps the single critical swing constituency. The competition for the support of white men, particularly those defined as working class, will shape the showdown between Clinton and Obama in Pennsylvania's Democratic presidential primary April 22. Obama of Illinois won majorities among those voters in what appeared to be breakthrough victories in Wisconsin and Virginia last month. But he badly lost working-class white men to Clinton, of New York, in Ohio and Texas two...

March 6 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama is having trouble with Archie Bunker. The white, blue-collar voters personified by the 1970s fictional television character cost Obama this week. His Democratic presidential rival, Senator Hillary Clinton of New York, beat him 54 percent to 44 percent in industrial Ohio, and 58 percent to 40 percent in predominantly white Rhode Island.

There is a great amount of interest in this year's presidential elections, as everybody seems to recognize that our next president has to be a lot better than George Bush. The Democrats are riding high with two groundbreaking candidates - a woman and an African-American – while the conservative Republicans are in a quandary about their party's nod to a quasi-liberal maverick, John McCain. Each candidate is carefully pandering to a smorgasbord of special-interest groups, ranging from gay, lesbian and transgender people to children of illegal immigrants to working mothers to evangelical Christians. There is one group no one has...

Whether it’s because of her gender, history or personality, Hillary is struggling to close a gender gap CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Here in the Lone Star State and across the nation, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has a problem with men. While Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama are in a statistical tie in advance of the crucial Texas Democratic presidential primary March 4, Obama has a 10- point lead among white men, a Washington Post-ABC News poll found last week. That’s nothing unusual. While the New York senator has won 12 of the 25 presidential caucuses or primaries in which...

What about Angry Black Man? :Please excuse my writing skills. I am not a writer and I am not attempting to pass myself off as one. I just enjoy sharing my mind.: There was a op-ed piece titled, “In election 2008, don’t forget Angry White Man”, written by Gary Hubbell, a columnist with the Aspen Times Weekly. In column Mr. Hubbell described the attributes of ‘The Angry White Man’, basically stating that the Angry White Man isn't being represented in this election period. Not that I totally disagree with this notion, but Mr. Hubbell alienates all of the Angry White...

His common traits are that he isn’t looking for anything from anyone — just the promise to be able to make his own way on a level playing field. In many cases, he is an independent businessman and employs several people. He pays more than his share of taxes and works hard.

Most important, the Angry White Man is pissed off. When his job site becomes flooded with illegal workers who don’t pay taxes and his wages drop like a stone, he gets righteously angry. When his job gets shipped overseas, and he has to speak to some incomprehensible idiot in India for tech support, he simmers. When Al Sharpton comes on TV, leading some rally for reparations for slavery or some such nonsense, he bites his tongue and he remembers. When a child gets charged with carrying a concealed weapon for mistakenly bringing a penknife to school, he takes note of...

There is a great amount of interest in this year’s presidential elections, as everybody seems to recognize that our next president has to be a lot better than George Bush. The Democrats are riding high with two groundbreaking candidates ­ a woman and an African-American ­ while the conservative Republicans are in a quandary about their party’s nod to a quasi-liberal maverick, John McCain. Each candidate is carefully pandering to a smorgasbord of special-interest groups, ranging from gay, lesbian and transgender people to children of illegal immigrants to working mothers to evangelical Christians. There is one group no one has...

Hillary Clinton has a man problem. And this time its bigger than just Bill. Take a look at the exit polls coming out of the primaries thus far. Men are going for Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton. In California, men went for Obama, 51 percent to Clinton's 39 percent, according to the San Jose Mercury News. In South Carolina, 55 percent of men voted for Obama, with only 23 going for Clinton. (Edwards took the bulk of the rest.) This is not about sexism. But try telling that to feminists Gloria Steinem and Erica Jong, who both recently wrote whiny...

There is a great amount of interest in this year’s presidential elections, as everybody seems to recognize that our next president has to be a lot better than George Bush. The Democrats are riding high with two groundbreaking candidates — a woman and an African-American — while the conservative Republicans are in a quandary about their party’s nod to a quasi-liberal maverick, John McCain. Each candidate is carefully pandering to a smorgasbord of special-interest groups, ranging from gay, lesbian and transgender people to children of illegal immigrants to working mothers to evangelical Christians. There is one group no one has...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has remained neutral in the Democratic presidential primary. So much so that instead of spending Super Tuesday getting out the vote in her state's crucial primary contest or capitalizing off all the press attention -- she stayed in Washington to schmooze with a NASCAR driver. Pelosi, who voted on an absentee ballot last week (for whom, we know not), hosted two-time defending NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson in her Capitol suite Tuesday afternoon for the ostensible purpose of congratulating him on his recent victory. The meeting and photo-op is also a great chance for House Democrats...

Hillary Clinton has a man problem. And this time its bigger than just Bill. Take a look at the exit polls coming out of the primaries thus far. Men are going for Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton. In California, men went for Obama, 51 percent to Clinton's 39 percent, according to the San Jose Mercury News. In South Carolina, 55 percent of men voted for Obama, with only 23 going for Clinton. (Edwards took the bulk of the rest.) This is not about sexism. But try telling that to feminists Gloria Steinem and Erica Jong, who both recently wrote whiny...

January 04, 2008 Iowa: Romney's Women Trouble and More [Margie Omero is President of Momentum Analysis, a Democratic polling firm based in Washington, DC.] Gender played a huge role in the Iowa caucuses yesterday...on the Republican side. Mike Huckabee's sizable lead over Mitt Romney came largely from women. According to exit polls from both the Democratic and Republican caucuses, 40% of women voted for Huckabee and 24% for Romney. Among men, Huckabee and Romney are nearly tied (29% and 26%, respectively). ... In the Democratic caucus, the pattern is far less dramatic. Yes, Clinton does fare better with women than...

WASHINGTON (CNN) – Call it an early Christmas gift for Hillary Clinton’s campaign: A new Iowa poll seems to show the New York senator with a stunning double-digit lead over her nearest rival among likely Democratic caucus-goers. Clinton and Obama were neck-and-neck in last week’s American Research Group poll. But in the new survey, conducted December 20-23, she leads the Illinois senator by 15 percentage points, 34 to 19 percent. Obama is now in a statistical tie for second place with former North Carolina senator John Edwards, who has 20 percent of the vote. According to the poll, Obama has...

Representing 38% of all voters, white men represent the second largest block in the American electorate, after white females. It is these 97 million white males to whom the Republican Party owes it electoral success in five out of the last seven presidential campaigns. The reason is simple: White males have abandoned the Democratic Party in droves. While the liberal media consistently depict the gender gap as a Republican liability, in fact, the gap has long worked to the advantage of the G.O.P. This media misportrayal is the subject of David Paul Kuhn’s recent book, The Neglected Voter: White Men...

Mark Penn, a senior strategist and pollster for Hillary Clinton’s Presidential Campaign, made news recently by suggesting that Clinton could win up to 24% of the votes from Republican women in Election 2008. Recent Rasmussen Reports polling data from match-ups against top Republican candidates offers some support for that claim—it shows Clinton attracting an average of 18% support from Republican women. However, there is another side to the gender gap story. The same surveys show that while Clinton is attracting 18% of Republican women, she is losing an average of 20% of Democratic men to the Republicans. These results come...

WASHINGTON - Women are flocking to Hillary Rodham Clinton's Democratic presidential candidacy and men are doing the same for Republican Fred Thompson. Yet for all that support, both candidates are showing early vulnerabilities wooing voters of the opposite sex. Thompson, the former Tennessee senator and tough-guy actor on television's "Law and Order," gets 68 percent of his support from males as he edges toward a run for the GOP presidential nomination, far more than other hopefuls, according to recent Associated Press-Ipsos polling. While he and front-runner Rudy Giuliani each draw nearly a quarter of the Republican male vote, he significantly...

Women are flocking to Hillary Rodham Clinton's Democratic presidential candidacy and men are doing the same for Republican Fred Thompson. Yet for all that support, both candidates are showing early vulnerabilities wooing voters of the opposite sex. Thompson, the former Tennessee senator and tough-guy actor on television's "Law and Order," gets 68 percent of his support from males as he edges toward a run for the GOP presidential nomination, far more than other hopefuls, according to recent Associated Press-Ipsos polling. While he and front-runner Rudy Giuliani each draw nearly a quarter of the Republican male vote, he significantly trails his...

October 22, 2005 -- "Commander in Chief" starring Geena Davis as a woman president is one of TV's top shows, but 28 percent of Americans say they're not likely to vote to put any real-life woman in the Oval Office. Men, especially older men, are least receptive — 36 percent of men over 45 turn thumbs down on a woman president — while women under 45 (41 percent) are most enthusiastic, according to a new Marist/WNBC poll yesterday .

Hint to Democrats: Character is how you behave when you lose. In fact, compare Richard Nixon’s reaction to the highly suspicious nature of his loss in 1960, to the reaction of Al Gore to his loss in the 2000 election. Nixon chose not to contest the results of the 1960 election against his advisor’s advice, for the good of the nation he loved so well. Gore chose to vigorously contest the results of the 2000 election for the good of the self he loved so well To understand Democrat motives, one must realize that from one traumatic event, all future...

President Bush's jump in support from Hispanic voters this election from 2000 was almost entirely among Hispanic men, nearly half of whom voted for him this year, according to a study released yesterday. The new numbers from the National Annenberg Election Survey also continue to fuel the debate over exactly how much of the Hispanic vote Mr. Bush did win last month. A series of exit polls have shown that support ranging anywhere from 34 percent to 44 percent. But the Annenberg poll, taken in the eight weeks before the election and the two weeks afterward, found Mr. Bush garnering...

WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) made increasing his support among Hispanic voters a leading goal in 2004 and he apparently achieved that aim largely because of gains among Hispanic men, a tracking poll suggests. Hispanics are the nation's fastest growing minority group, though they made up only 8 percent of the overall vote nationally. They are a key voter group in swing states like Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Florida and Nevada. Democrat John Kerry (news - web sites) hoped to win enough support from Hispanics to win in a couple of those states, but Bush swept...

The epochal Ward Cleaver echoed in the minds of American voters this election. His voice resonated deeply, influencing voters in surprising ways, and it's not because John Kerry reminded them of Eddie Haskell (That was Al Gore). Whether or not voters had kids — their own "Wally and the Beave" — made a huge difference in evaluations of which presidential candidate would lead the culture in the right direction. But the most striking pattern was among men with kids — the Ward Cleaver dads ? who overwhelmingly thought President Bush was more likely to lead the culture in the right...

I’m an angry white man. I live in a red state. I voted for Newt Gingrich in 1994. I voted for President Bush in 2004. I am a sexist, homophobic, conservative animal. I caused blue state succession talk. I am to blame for everything that is wrong in the world—slavery, women’s oppression, worldwide famine, and pestilence. I have become the most spat upon by my own countrymen. I have become reviled and denigrated by the mainstream media as being greedy and creating poverty. I believe in the Founding Fathers and the U.S. Constitution. And I am in favor of morality...

Gender Gap Not Helping Kerry By Joseph Taranto. Posted 10/22/2004 2:45:00 PM John Kerry is only leading by two points among women voters, according to a new Survey USA poll. This may be trouble for Kerry, since Democrats typically lead at a much higher number. This poll, which looked at 30 states, including many key battleground states, provides new insight into women’s growing influence on the election. Kerry’s numbers pale in comparison to past election results. In the 2000 election, Al Gore led by 11 percent among women voters and Bill Clinton led by 16 percent among women in 1996....

John Kerry is spending the campaign's homestretch looking for some conservative voters. He has been talking more about his faith, dusting off the shotgun and associating himself as much as possible with the Red Sox victory over the Yankees. Campaign spokesman Mike McCurry called it all part of an effort to introduce voters to Kerry as "a guy." That is, he's hoping to look more like a "guy's guy" — the kind who would reach for a brewskie before a glass of chardonnay. The point, of course, is to attract the men who believe in America as a force for...

hursday October 07, 2004--On the day before the second Presidential Debate, the Rasmussen Reports Presidential Tracking Poll shows President George W. Bush with 48% of the vote and Senator John Kerry with 47%. The Tracking Poll is updated daily by noon Eastern. Bush leads by 3 percentage points among men and trails by just under a point among women.

Posted on Fri, Sep. 24, 2004 AP Poll: Bush Solidifies Support Among Men WILL LESTER Associated Press WASHINGTON - President Bush solidified his advantage among men during the last month and holds his highest ratings since January on job performance, the economy and Iraq, according to an Associated Press poll. Bush has a 7-point lead over Sen. John Kerry - 52 percent to 45 percent among likely voters - in the AP-Ipsos survey less than six weeks before the Nov. 2 election. Independent Ralph Nader was backed by 1 percent. The president held the advantage despite increasing violence in Iraq...

<p>They talk guns, they talk teams, they talk tough. You'd think they were running for top jock. Or maybe leader of the free world. It's macho time in the presidential race. The best man could be the one who seems more manly.</p>

Who's who of key U.S. voter groups. Blocs seen as vital in squeaker race. Red States. Blue States. White Noise? U.S. election coverage often bogs down into a jumble of labels — Limousine Liberals, Discerning Democrats, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, Texans for Truth, Soccer Moms (now called Security Moms), Battleground States, Swing States, States In Play. But there are some key demographic segments of American society which will go a long way to deciding whether U.S. President George W. Bush wins a second term Nov. 2 or is unseated by Democratic challenger John Kerry. Here's a look at eight...

In June of 2003, when John Kerry was running third in the polls and facing an uphill battle in his quest to be the presidential nominee for the Democrats, I wrote a column titled John's hair will Kerry the Day. It was a light-hearted look at how the candidate with the best hair always seems to get the nomination. Now, Kerry's rubbing in the fact that he thinks he has the best hair, and it's time for the follicly challenged to fight back. The gloves are off ... along with our hair. Balding men of America: Unite to defeat John...

Presidential candidates recognize sportsmen as key voters With just two shots, Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry took two pheasants in Iowa earlier this year and attracted the attention of shotgun-shooting voters. Meanwhile, President Bush has reached out to conservation group leaders by catering to them at his Texas ranch. Now, with Election Day approaching, hunters and anglers are expected to receive even more attention from the presidential candidates, who are beginning to make strong campaign moves for valuable "hook and bullet" votes. According to a survey by the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation, outdoorsmen and conservationists tend to be more politically active...

Group Seen as Factor in Swing States Jim Martin, the conservation director for the largest fishing tackle company in the United States, is a registered Republican who, like many sportsmen, had high hopes when President Bush took office. But he now eyes the administration more warily, worried about its push for oil and gas development on public land and its position on global climate change. "They should not assume because we're registered Republicans we'll vote for Bush," said Martin, who works for Pure Fishing. But he added that Democrat John F. Kerry still has to prove he deserves the loyalty...

White Males: Hot Demographic for the 2004 Elections June 2, 2004 by Carey Roberts As President Bush&#8217;s polling numbers falter, Democrats are beginning to salivate over the prospect of winning the November elections. So everyone is asking, what is the demographic group that holds the key to election success? The answer: white men, who represent a whooping 45 million of the total U.S. electorate. Back in 1976, Jimmy Carter attracted a majority of white male voters to seal his underdog Presidential bid. But around that time, the Democratic Party began to view women as one of its core constituencies,...

May 23, 2004 KERRY'S GENDER GAP Yes, Democrats Can Win (Some) White Male Voters By RICK LYMAN OOR John Kerry. Despite President Bush's dip in popularity, Mr. Kerry hasn't made any real headway, according to the polls. Part of the problem is his lack of support among white men. Mr. Kerry has the support of only 36 percent of white male voters, compared with 55 for the president, according to the most recent New York Times/CBS News poll, taken last month. To win the presidency, Mr. Kerry won't need a majority of white male votes. No Democratic presidential candidate has...

<p>CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) — Until last month, President Bush hadn't been to a NASCAR race since he was governor of Texas and running for president. On Monday, he goes to a rodeo and livestock exhibition in Houston — again, for the first time since he was governor. Such appearances at sporting events this election year help Bush shore up his standing with his core supporters: white men.</p>

(Note: this is the published, column length version of the article. To read the full version of the article, see Michael Moore, you used to be my hero. Back in the days of your pro-worker documentary Roger & Me (1989), I was working construction at a power plant in the South, and you were the one public figure who seemed to speak for working men. The one who questioned the right of a business to take what it wants from a community and then pull out in search of cheaper labor, leaving a trail of unemployment and broken lives behind....

<p>Howard Dean supporters are making a big play for the so-called "NASCAR Dads" by sponsoring a race car in the Busch Series this year.</p> <p>At $2.5 million, it's a risky price tag for Team Dean Racing, because Mr. Dean is in tight races in must-win primaries and might not even win the Democratic nomination; the NASCAR season runs through November.</p>

<p>January 10, 2004 -- WASHINGTON - Men, evangelicals and rural voters are supporting President Bush by big margins at the start of this election year, while traditionally Democratic-leaning groups such as women have more divided loyalties, an Associated Press poll found. More people say they will definitely vote for Bush's re-election, 41 percent, than say they will definitely vote against him, 33 percent, according to the poll conducted by Ipsos-Public Affairs.</p>

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Bolstered by lopsided backing from core supporters, President Bush is in a stronger position with voters than his father or Bill Clinton were at the same stage of their re-election bids, an Associated Press poll found. Men, evangelicals and rural voters are supporting Bush by big margins at the start of this election year, while traditionally Democratic-leaning groups such as women have more divided loyalties, according to the poll. The public's growing confidence in the economy is helping boost Bush's standing as well. More people say they will definitely vote for Bush's re-election, 41 percent, than say...