Media Myths: Palin and Women

The media seems captivated by the idea that the addition of Sarah Palin to the GOP ticket has changed the gender dynamics of the presidential race. This Politico forum "Why Are White Women Flocking to McCain And Will It Last?" is a great example. The only problem is that there's no evidence that women, white or otherwise are flocking to McCain. Here are the Gallup tracking poll numbers for the last week broken down by sex. The numbers are for Obama's margin over McCain. Positive numbers indicate that Obama leads McCain, while negative numbers indicate that he trails McCain.

	8/25-31	9/1-7	Change
Men	0	-5	-5
Women	+12	+7	-5

>These numbers indicated that McCain's surge came equally from men and women since he gained 5 points in both groups.

What about among whites? Here are the numbers:

	8/25-31	9/1-7	Change
White Men	-15	-22	-7
White Women	-4	-7	-3

These numbers indicate that McCain actually improved more among white men than among white women, the opposite of what you would expect from listening to most of the media.

Comments

[cautionbug]

Isn't the bigger point significantly more important than this? In a race where any Democrat should be able to walk away with the election based on 8 years of Republican executive corruption and criminal activity, and 12 years of Republican Congressional deterioration of the federal government, the REPUBLICAN is gaining! LEADING, even.

Who cares if it's white women or little green men? It shouldn't be happening! Yet another softball election that Democrats are managing to whiff on worse than Casey At The Bat.

http://www.sportingnews.com/archives/baseball/94640.html

[MPeter]

Thank you for keeping them honest. There is simply too much noise, we can't seem to hear ourselves talk. MSM has bought into the narrative and failed to do its job.