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...entire roll out was targeted to women voters, who currently show less support nationwide for McCain than George W. Bush earned in 2004, according to the Gallup Poll. "This trust has been given to me 88 years almost to the day after the women of America first gained the right to vote," Palin said Friday, earning some of the loudest applause of the announcement rally. "It turns out the women of America aren't finished yet and we can shatter that glass ceiling once...
...introduction of Palin, McCain was quick to highlight Palin's gender, calling her "a devoted wife and mother of five." Palin's husband and five children, the latest of whom was born just months ago, followed her out onto the podium. Moments after the rally had ended, Palin offered her first interview to People magazine [which shares the same parent company, TIME Inc., as Time], which boasts an overwhelmingly female readership. "What I've had to do, though, is in the middle of the night, put down the Blackberries and pick up the breast pump--do a couple of things...
...Recent polls have shown that McCain is underperforming among the same crucial female demographic. A June poll by the Pew Research Center found that just 37% of women voters supported McCain, compared with the 46% and 41% support that President Bush enjoyed at the same points in his 2000 and 2004 campaigns...
...McCain clearly has designs on the same inspirational message of woman breaking through the glass ceiling that limits the professional opportunities for women. McCain's own relationship with Palin is limited, which only fueled accusations on the left that the choice was little more than a token move. He first met her in February of this year, at a National Governor's Association meeting. McCain's campaign says the two leaders had a phone conversation last Sunday, and then met again in secret on Thursday at McCain's family home in Sedona, Ariz., when the candidate offered...
...women voters McCain hopes to attract with the Palin nomination are not likely to be core Clinton supporters, who tend to be politically liberal and pro-choice - different from the largely conservative and strictly pro-life policies embraced by Palin. But McCain advisers have identified a significant number of more moderate, independent women voters who have not yet committed to Obama...