Swing States poll: A shift by women puts Obama in lead (USA Today/Gallup)

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Swing States poll: A shift by women puts Obama in lead

By Susan Page

MILWAUKEE – President Obama has opened the first significant lead of the 2012 campaign in the nation's dozen top battleground states, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, boosted by a huge shift of women to his side.

In the fifth Swing States survey taken since last fall, Obama leads Republican front-runner Mitt Romney 51%-42% among registered voters just a month after the president had trailed him by two percentage points.

The biggest change came among women under 50. In mid-February, just under half of those voters supported Obama. Now more than six in 10 do while Romney's support among them has dropped by 14 points, to 30%. The president leads him 2-1 in this group.

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In the poll, Romney leads among all men by a single point, but the president leads among women by 18. That reflects a greater disparity between the views of men and women than the 12-point gender gap in the 2008 election.

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/story/2012-04-01/swing-states-poll/53930684/1

[jerseygal]

1. President Obama is HOT

and Romney is not.

[julian09]

2. I hope they know enough to vote whole dem ticket Obama can't do it alone.

[aquart]

3. A vote for ANY Republican is a vote against ALL women.

It is a genuine act of attempted suicide for any woman to vote for any Republican. They could not have made their murderous policies more plain.