Republican presidential candidate John McCain has gained huge support among white women since naming Sarah Palin as his running mate and now leads Democrat Barack Obama among those voters, according to a survey published on Tuesday.
The Washington Post/ABC News poll found that much of McCain's surge in the polls since the Republican National Convention is attributable to the shift in support among white women.
The race for the White House is now a virtual tie, with Obama at 47 percent support of registered voters and McCain at 46 percent, the poll found.
Before the Democratic National Convention in late August, Obama held an 8 percentage point lead among white women voters, 50 percent to 42 percent, but after the Republican convention in early September, McCain was ahead by 12 points among white women, 53 percent to 41 percent, the poll found.
Asked about the findings during a briefing on Monday before the poll was published, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe told a Washington Post reporter, "Well, your poll is wrong."
"Yeah, you and your fancy statistical sampling!"
Anyway....could the poll be wrong? Sure it could. It's just nice to know the Obama camp is using polling data the way a drunk uses a lamppost.
If this is the first evidence of a backlash against the vicious and unhinged attacks against Sarah Palin could Camp Obama even learn from it? I tend to doubt it. Their modus operandi has been to scream racism whenever they get pushed, but this time they are the ones doing the pushing... and this time they may be pushing themselves right off a cliff.
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