Romney Solidifies GOP Position but Obama Gets Boost From Women
The13thPixie BN-0
2012/04/13 22:30:22
Here's some good news.
Romney Solidifies GOP
Position but Obama Gets Boost From WomenBy Gary Langer | ABC OTUS
News – Tue, Apr 10, 2012
Romney Solidifies GOP
Position but Obama Gets Boost From WomenBy Gary Langer | ABC OTUS
News – Tue, Apr 10, 2012
A widening gender gap, modest economic
gains, an edge on key issues and broad advantages in personal popularity are
boosting Barack Obama's re-election prospects. Yet Mitt Romney, moving to close
the deal in his own party, holds opportunities of his own for the road
ahead.
Obama has returned to a single-digit lead vs. Romney in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, 51-44 percent among registered
voters, after a virtual dead heat last month. That includes Obama's largest
margin to date among women, 57-38 percent. He trails by 8 points among men. http://www.langerresearch.com/uploads/1136a22012ElectionUpdat...
Underscoring that gender gap, Obama leads Romney by 19 points among all
adults in trust to handle "women's issues," his single largest advantage among a
dozen issues tested in this poll, which was produced for ABC by Langer Research Associates. That
includes a 10-point lead for Obama on women's issues among men, growing to 27
points among women. http://www.langerresearch.com/
After an extended period of debate and
political positioning on a range of issues of concern to women, there's also a
sharp gender gap in the president's overall job approval rating - 13 points
higher among women than men, another record in ABC/Post polls. Obama's 50
percent approval rating overall rests on positive views among 56 percent of
women vs. 43 percent of men.
Other factors are at play. Obama leads
Romney by significant margins in trust to handle six key issues in all, ranging
from international affairs to protecting the middle class to handling social
issues such as abortion and gay marriage. Romney clearly leads on just one,
handling the deficit. Obama also leads on a range of personal attributes,
including by a vast 38 points in being seen as the more friendly and likable of
the two and by 26 points as "more inspiring."
Among issues, the economy, and the broader
sentiment it inspires, are key to the election. Today the fewest number of
Americans in more than a year say the country is on the wrong track, nearly half
say their local economy is improving and a sense that jobs are "very difficult"
to find has eased by 14 percentage points from last summer.
In addition, approval of Obama's handling
of the economy is up by 6 points from last month, "strong" disapproval has eased
by 8 points from its record high and he leads Romney by 12 points as better
understanding average Americans' economic problems.
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Top Opinion
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abycinnamon BN-1 2012/04/13 22:45:57
It really is as simple as that. It has nothing to do with freedom of religion or any of the other RW straw men. It is the least the insurance industry can do since they will gain 31 million new customers from ACA.
The truth is that bills now before Congress don’t require federal money to be used for supporting abortion coverage. So the president is right to that limited extent. But it’s equally true that House and Senate legislation would allow a new "public" insurance plan to cover abortions, despite language added to the House bill that technically forbids using public funds to pay for them. Obama has said in the past that "reproductive services" would be covered by his public plan, so it’s likely that any new federal insurance plan would cover abortion unless Congress expressly prohibits that. Low...
The truth is that bills now before Congress don’t require federal money to be used for supporting abortion coverage. So the president is right to that limited extent. But it’s equally true that House and Senate legislation would allow a new "public" insurance plan to cover abortions, despite language added to the House bill that technically forbids using public funds to pay for them. Obama has said in the past that "reproductive services" would be covered by his public plan, so it’s likely that any new federal insurance plan would cover abortion unless Congress expressly prohibits that. Low- and moderate-income persons who would choose the "public plan" would qualify for federal subsidies to purchase it. Private plans that cover abortion also could be purchased with the help of federal subsidies. Therefore, we judge that the president goes too far when he calls the statements that government would be funding abortions "fabrications."
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Perhaps you should have read all of your own source. There is no provision for use of government funding for abortions. Reproductive services yes, but abortions no. Planned Parenthood does provide some abortions when necessary, but they use private money, which constitutes most of its funding. Reproductive services include mostly counseling of expectant mothers, birth control for those who are not ready to become mothers yet, pap smears, mammograms, and the like. Their patients are usually women with no health care coverage, who could not afford the services themselves. Without the pre- and post-natal care, their pregnancies and childbirths would be far more difficult.
Might I remind you, abortion is legal per Roe v Wade, which has not been overturned and has stood the test of time, almost forty years.
The Hyde amendment has been amended to again provide abortions for those extreme cases and is what I was talking about.
Planned parenthood does wonderful things for women and in my state even provides prenatal care but not abortions. However it is up to each state wether or not to fund those clinics that do provide abortions as some choose to, and there are attempts to earmark money for abortions at the federal level.
Each clinic decides wether to provide abortions and under what circumstances as they are privately run and partially federally funded; so in the same city one may not provide abortions at all and another may provide them at the drop of a hat. But they all recieve funding so tax dollars are funding abortions.
Texas decided to bar the Women’s Health Program funding from abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood, in May of last year. Almost immediately, the Obama administration threatened to pull Medicaid from Texas if funding wasn’t reinstated for the abortion giant. Texas refused, and in turn, the Obama administration decided last week to yank the annual $40,000,000 Texas received for its Medicaid program, beginning in March. This also results in another $17,000,000 loss to Planned Parenthood of Texas.
It looks like we agree on a couple of things, but we still disagree on most issues.
Prove that no money that goes to planned parenthood is used for abortions. Obama and the state of Texas disagree with you on this as well.
I ran into this years ago when my state won the right to restrict abortion funding to planned parenthood clinics. Mitch McConnel argued that since our state was ranked 39th for prenatal care and funds were limited they would be put to better use funding prenatal care for all women instead of abortions. We are now ranked 21st thanks to that. Since I worked on an ECMO team at childrens hospital it was an area of great interest for me at the time.
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If this was a law requiring an MRI before surgery you might have a point but not on buying a preventative policy you might not be able to afford.
Just sayin'.
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Also they are paid for by the government so double whammy on your comparison,
Unless the government also pays for the healthcare that they are forcing us to get under Obamacare wich in that case I would be fine with it and so would many republicans. Unfortunately DEMOCRATS not only refused to put that in the bill but arrested 5 LIBERALS for trying to bring up the question at the senate hearing.
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