"The political returns from attacking access to contraception are in. Women don’t seem to like it. While Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney hasn’t led the charge against the Obama Administration’s proposed new federal rules that require an insurance carrier to provide birth control free of charge to women, he certainly echoed the theme that the new rules are an assault on religious liberty, while steering clear of making it a central issue on the campaign.
Unfortunately for him, it seems he’s still suffered a precipitous drop in support among women voters. Quinnipiac University released new numbers on Wednesday that showed a troubling trend for the former governor. In three months, he’d gone from a positive split on favorability with women (33 - 30) to a substantially negative one (30 - 45) in Quinnipiac’s numbers.
The pollster also asked whether “Mitt Romney cares about the needs and problems of women or not?” while asking the same about President Obama. Obama did very well on the question, with 64 percent of all voters saying he does and 28 saying he does not, nearly exactly the same as the split amongst women themselves. Romney earned a 41 - 41 split on the question from all voters, while only 34 percent of women said that he does care about their needs and problems, with 46 percent saying he does not."
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