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...recent poll by the Detroit News showed people in Michigan have complicated, if not contradictory, views on the subject of affirmative action. When read the statement "even though affirmative action may be unfair to some individuals, the good that it has done makes up for that," 45% of respondents said yes, while 42% said no. Although 75% praised the virtues of a "diverse student body," 53% said "affirmative action wrongly sends a message to minorities and women that they are not capable enough" and 60% disagreed with the notion that "affirmative action is needed to compensate minorities and women...
...voting bloc - as in many of the key House and Senate races that will determine who controls Congress - may well be white women, the soccer/security moms who often decide later than other groups on how they will vote. The Free Press poll found 83% of blacks opposed the measure to ban affirmative action, while 53% of white men supported it. But white women were about equally divided on the issue, with 20% undecided. Affirmative action proponents are pitching their arguments squarely at them, warning of the loss of funding for programs that promote women in traditionally male-dominated fields like...
...mess in Iraq and Bush's low approval ratings make this a tough year for Republicans to appeal to female swing voters. Seven in ten women oppose the war, compared with 58% opposition among men, according to a recent CNN poll. Bush himself appears to be spreading the gender gap, especially among moderate Republican women. According to a Pew poll conducted last summer, only half of self-described moderate or liberal Republican women approve of Bush's job performance, down 31 percentage points since his re-election. Moderate and liberal Republican men are down only 19 points over this same...
...really researches things and doesn't go with the flow. But Talent's on Bush's side and he pretty much follows Bush for the most part." How women like Bloomfield break in the last two weeks of the campaign will make all the difference: The Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll found McCaskill leading Talent by just one point among likely women voters - with fully 9% remain> ing undecided...
...country. In New Jersey, Democratic incumbent Bob Menendez and Republican Tom Kean, who are both against gay marriage but for civil unions, are in a virtual tie in a crucial contest, and a Kean victory would almost certainly mean Republicans retained control of the Senate. But a Rutgers-Eagleton poll in June found 50% of people in the state favored gay marriage, while 44% opposed. And New Jersey is heavily Democratic, so it?s hard to see this decision putting Kean over...