Hold on, we’re thinking: No majority pick among women yet.

By CJP | August 6, 2008

We’re always a little skeptical of polls that don’t come from news organizations, BUT Lifetime Television (home of Claudia Joy and the rest of our beloved “Army Wives”) commissioned a poll of D, R, and Indie women voters from two of the best pollsters in the biz- Celinda Lake, a Democrat, and Kellyanne Conway, a Republican.

Lake and Conway teamed up to write a book about women voters a few years ago, and they’re back together again to survey ladies about the 2008 elections.

Here are a few of the headlines:

• Neither Obama nor McCain has a majority of women yet. Obama’s at 49%, McCain has 38%, but 10% of women remain undecided;
• If McCain or Obama picking a female running mate, it wouldn’t change the votes of a majority of women voters;
• The large majority of Hillary supporters say she lost because of the campaign she ran or “who she was” as a candidate. Just 21% say she lost because she’s a woman;
• Of those Hillary supporters, one in five say they’ll vote for McCain;
• The economy is the #1 issue for a a plurality of women (41%), followed by the war in Iraq (24%), health care (23%) and education (17%);

There’s lots more in the poll, so check out the entire piece at myLifetime.com.

Topics: Voting, Washington, Women in Politics

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