Poll: Clinton paved the way for a female president
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- August
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A new poll of women voters found 69 percent credit Hillary Rodham Clinton with paving the way for a future female president, but 57 percent don’t think it will be her.
“They seem to think this was the moment and it has passed,’’ said Kellyanne Conway, a Republican pollster for the polling company inc. who participated in the survey with Democratic pollster Celinda Lake for Lifetime Networks “Every Woman Counts’’ project to engage women voters.
Conway and Lake participated in a conference call this afternoon to announce the poll’s findings.
Only 5 percent of likely female voters said a woman would never be elected as president. Forty four percent predicted it would happen in the next eight years.
Among likely women voters who supported Clinton’s bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, 52 percent still think she will be the first female president someday.
Looking ahead to the November election, Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain already have solidified the support of women who are members of their respective parties, according to Lake, who indicated the battleground is for independent women voters.
Overall, Obama currently leads McCain 49 percent to 38 percent among likely women voters. Â
Would the selection of a woman as a running mate matter? Among the women voters surveyed, 29 percent said they would be more likely to vote for Obama if he has a female on his ticket and 15 percent said they would be more likely to vote for McCain if he chooses a woman as his veep.
About 18 percent of Clinton supporters said they plan to vote for McCain.
Do women think that sexism was to blame for Clinton’s failure to capture the nomination? Only 21 percent felt that way. Thirty four percent blamed Clinton and her strategists for the way they ran her campaign.
The telephone poll of 500 likely voters was conducted July 25 to 29 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percent.
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