Thursday Open Thread 2
Posted on Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 12:27:34 PM EST
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Regarding my earlier post on the Palin speech, some interesting focus group findings from Greenberg Quinlan:
Based on focus groups conducted live last night and new polling data from an oversample of married and unmarried women, Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research released the following findings about women voters’ reactions to Governor Sarah Palin[:]
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# After viewing the acceptance speech of the first female vice presidential candidate for the Republican party, there was no positive electoral movement toward the Republican ticket among either married or unmarried women in these groups. Some unmarried women moved toward the Republican ticket, but an equal number moved against McCain and Palin. Notably, the Obama speech which we reported on last week did change electoral positioning for some focus participants. This outcome is particularly notable among Hillary supporters, where she also failed to move voters. This speech clearly succeeded in the convention hall and was generally well received in the groups, but among these women, it did not fundamentally change the character of the race....
# Fundamental to the unmarried women in these groups, however, she did not sufficiently address key issues in their lives. This is particularly true of the economy, where unmarried women claim to have heard almost nothing of relevance to their economic standing. One single woman said point-blank “I didn’t get anything about the economy.”
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