AP-GfK Poll: Obama, Romney Tied Among Women
Mitt Romney is becoming more and more of a ladies man - at least in the case of the presidential election.
The Republican nominee for president had been lagging far behind President Barack Obama among female voters, but Romney has closed that gap with just more than one week to go before Election Day on Nov. 6.
One month ago, Obama was riding high among women voters. The Democratic incumbent was enjoying a whopping 16-point lead over his GOP challenger among that demographic, and the president was nearly unanimously projected to win that voting group come Election Day.
But in a new AP-GfK poll, which was conducted this week from Tuesday to Friday, Romney has made significant strides among women and completely closed off Obama's margin of victory with female voters. The poll shows Obama and Romney tied among women, with each candidate getting support from 47 percent of female voters surveyed.
The new data is a big win for the Romney campaign, as the GOP candidate has worked hard over the last few weeks to sway women who were hesitant about voting for him.
"As the election nears, Romney has been playing down social issues and trying to project a more moderate stance on matters such as abortion in an effort to court female voters," the Associated Press reported.
But the tide could potentially change before Election Day, as Romney has recently gotten into hot water for a comment made by a Senate candidate he endorsed.
"But now his campaign is grappling with the fallout from a comment by a Romney-endorsed Senate candidate in Indiana, who said that when a woman becomes pregnant during a rape 'that's something God intended,'" the AP wrote.
Despite Romney's bump in the polls among women, things are still looking up for Obama on the Electoral College Map. The latest projections from The Huffington Post show that Obama has 271 electoral votes comfortably in his pocket, which would be enough to put him over the edge and win a second term as president.
