Swing States poll: A shift by women puts Obama in lead [View all]
Source: USA Today
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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A poll is a poll, and we have 219 days to go. Still, Republicans are not helping themselves by attacking the gender that usually comprises a majority of the electorate.
See you on the campaign trail!
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