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March 01, 2008

Mining the Gender Gap for Answers

The New York Times (register)

Move beyond the tactical skirmishes in this campaign, and one of the most intriguing issues remains the influence of gender on Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s candidacy.
The questions are fundamental and — even with modern polling technology — almost impossible to answer. For example: How much of Mrs. Clinton’s political vulnerability is linked to being a woman, and how much to her own, very specific political identity and past? Why do so many Democratic men and women, at this particular moment, see the race so differently?

The latest round of polls provided fresh data, although few explanations. In a New York Times/CBS News poll, Senator Barack Obama had the support of more than two-thirds of the male Democratic primary voters, while dividing women fairly evenly with Mrs. Clinton. The latest Pew Research Center poll, a few days later, showed a similar pattern — Mr. Obama outdrawing Mrs. Clinton by two to one among Democratic men.

Posted by Editor at March 1, 2008 09:19 PM

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