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The Battle For Women Voters
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Picture of Palin and Hillary Clinton voters image John McCain shrugged off a poor prime time speech to the Republican convention on Thursday night to begin an aggressive play for the votes of the working class and women, heading off Friday on the campaign trail with his running mate, Sarah Palin, for the first time. Sarah Palin was preparing to take the stage at the Republican convention, a knot of teenagers was standing on a footbridge over the highway leading into MinneapolisSt Paul with a homemade sign that read: â€œObama â€™08â€.
Had they nothing better to do? â€œItâ€™s the first time that Iâ€™ve felt like this,â€ explained Ligeia Baumhofer. â€œBarack Obama has got us excited about politics.â€ A policeman told them to move their sign inside the railings and advised them to leave but they stayed to wave at car drivers honking support.

As the Republican convention gives way to the final intense stretch of campaigning, Barack Obama will get a boost from a potentially powerful weapon against Sarah Palin’s appeal: Hillary Clinton. Barack Obama will counter by sending Hillary Clinton to Florida on Monday, her third visit in two weeks, to try to shore up support among Democratic women. He will send Democratic women governors and senators, such as the Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius, to other battleground states.
“What [the Republican presidential candidate, John] McCain has done with Governor Palin’s nomination is aim right at a demographic that Obama needs to address quickly: non-college-educated women,” said Mike McCurry, who served as White House spokesman under Clinton’s husband, Bill.

The entrance of Gov. Sarah Palin into the race has led to a sharpening of Obama’s message on issues such as health care, pay equity, and abortion rights. In an ad, the campaign has hit the Republican ticket over its anti-abortion stance and also criticized John McCain for not supporting equal pay legislation. The importance of the women’s vote has also given him reason to be more personal on the stump and to talk about his mother’s and grandmother’s struggles trying to raise him as they bumped up against the proverbial glass ceiling.

Mrs Palin imperfections and inexperience, as well as the public spectacle and humiliation being endured by her family, only added fuel to her fire: conservative Republicans love nothing more than roaring to the defence of one of their own.
“I feel like I have been electro-charged,” said Bill Seller, a delegate from Missouri. “This is suddenly a dream ticket. She is amazing and it has completely changed our view of McCain. For the first time, I really think they can win this thing.”
Swift said Palin performed under “enormous pressure” in the wake of intense scrutiny since being named McCain’s running mate Aug. 29. In a short time, she has been questioned on everything from her experience to her ability as a mother of five to juggle the demands of a national office, to an ethics violation and her 17-year-old daughter’s pregnancy.
Some have even gone so far as to say Palin is bad mother for making a run for vice president just months after having given birth to a son with Down syndrome.

McCain and Obama are battling for women disenchanted with the Democrats’ failure to nominate Clinton and for blue-collar votes in battleground states such as Michigan and Wisconsin, where McCain and Palin campaigned Friday, and Pennsylvania, where Obama and his running mate Joe Biden spent the day.
Alongside the female Democratic governors Kathleen Sebelius and Janet Napolitano, Clinton’s ability to vouch for Obama is likely to be crucial this month as Palin makes her first solo campaign trek.
But how eager the New York senator will be to promote the Obama-Biden ticket, particularly if Palin continues making a public play for Clinton’s disaffected female supporters, remains to be seen.