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It looks like the GOP's attempts to paint women as irresponsible nitwits that have no idea about their own reproductive health is really starting to pay off - for President Obama:

In the fifth Swing States survey taken since last fall, Obama leads Republican front-runner Mitt Romney 51%-42% among registered voters just a month after the president had trailed him by two percentage points.

The biggest change came among women under 50. In mid-February, just under half of those voters supported Obama. Now more than six in 10 do while Romney's support among them has dropped by 14 points, to 30%. The president leads him 2-1 in this group.

This is a huge shift and to show the gender gap now present:

Romney's main advantage is among men 50 and older, swamping Obama 56%-38%.

And it looks like Women are really abandoning the GOP as a whole:

While women typically are more likely to identify themselves as Democrats than men are, that difference widens to a chasm in the USA TODAY poll. By 41%-24%, women call themselves Democrats; men by 27%-25% say they're Republicans.

But I'm sure they don't know what they are talking about. They are just a bunch of dumb broads after all. Or that's at least what I'm sure the Republican brains are saying in a backroom somewhere.

A new poll out by CBS and the New York Times provides some of the most interesting numbers I have seen in a long time. Right now Obama’s approval is at 46%, with his disapproval also at 46%. The numbers are even worse when it comes to his handling of job creating. There only 35% approve, while 58% disapprove.

The numbers get even more interesting when asked who they feel has a clear plan for creating jobs

So American’s believe the President has a better plan at creating jobs than the Republicans by almost 2:1.  What could be hurting the GOP here? Well one big issue is with their priorities. Asked who they believe the Republicans in Congress favor in their policies, the poll shows a big problem for the right:

Apparently a majority of Americans. In 23 polls conducted asking if tax hikes should also be included to help reduce the deficit, a vast majority said "yes". An average of 65 percent of respondents to be exact. That's almost 2/3 of this country. The responses ranged from 56%-76%, with the low number being attributed to a right-wing Rasmussen poll.

And I thought John Boehner was going to listen to the people! Silly me.....

The whole argument that the Democrats didn’t listen to the American people that Republicans like John Boehner keeps telling us is starting to fail. Look at this from Gallup:

As you may know, yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that restructures the nation’s healthcare system. All in all, do you think it is a good thing or a bad thing that Congress passed this bill?

Good thing 49%
Bad thing 40%
Don’t know 11%

This is the first post bill passing poll I have seen and so far the numbers are very good for Democrats. If this trend continues then November might be a very bad month for Republicans.

There has been a lot of focus on the Massachusetts Senate race to replace the late Ted Kennedy and some are trying to paint it as a repudiation of President Obama and health care reform. One of the key findings in the new PPP poll released last night was that those planning on voting oppose the health care bill 48% to 40%.

This morning on Morning Joe, Chris Matthews brought up a really interesting point about this. He said that maybe the people of Massachusetts feel like they are getting a double punch by health care reform. They already have their own reform in the state, which they pay for through taxes, so having a federal system to them would end up leaving them feeling they are paying for others. There really could be a lot of truth for this.

So is the opposition to health care and the reason Brown is doing so well in Massachusetts because they already have their own reform? I’m sure not all people of the state feel or believe this, but there is a really good chance that enough of them do to propel Brown ahead and maybe even deliver him to the Senate. If that’s the case it will be a crappy deal for the rest of America.

CNN has ran a very interesting poll that gives us a lot to think about:

The poll indicates that a slight majority, 51 percent, of Republicans would prefer to see the GOP in their area nominate candidates who agree with them on all the major the issues even if they have a poor chance of beating the Democratic candidate. Forty-three percent of Republicans say they would rather have candidates with whom they don't agree on all the important issues but who can beat the Democrats.

Democrats polled seemed to place a slightly higher priority on electoral victory: 58 percent say that they would like their party to nominate candidates who can beat Republicans, even if they don't agree with those candidates on all the issues. Fewer than 4 in 10 Democrats say they would rather see their party nominate candidates who agree with them on all major issues, but have a poor chance of beating the Republican candidate.

When you first read this you would assume that the Republicans put issues ahead of party, which seems like a great thing. Actually it isn’t. What the poll shows is that the Republicans have an 8 point deficit in self-identified Republicans believing in the party, while Democrats are +20. Here’s the reason given for this:

"One reason for the difference between the parties: the Democrats have a relatively even split on ideological grounds. Thirty-four percent of Democrats are liberal, 40 percent are moderates and less than one in four call themselves conservatives," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.

By contrast, 73 percent of Republicans questioned in the poll say they are conservatives, with only 26 percent describing themselves as liberal or moderate Republicans.

Pam Spaulding caught this nasty poll running on Facebook by a third party developer:

The poll has been disabled by Facebook so action has been taken. Hopefully further action will take place in the form of the Secret Service checking out the developer.

UPDATE:

Greg Sargent has posted the following:

The Secret Service is investigating the circumstances surrounding an eye-opening Facebook poll that asked whether Obama should be assassinated, a Secret Service spokesman confirms to us.

“We are taking the appropriate investigative steps,” the spokesman, Ed Donovan, told our reporter, Amanda Erickson. “We are aware of it.”

According to Greg it was the Secret Service that told Facebook to pull that poll.

Shorter Scarborough just now:

If you took a poll you would find everyone agrees with Cheney on nation security instead of Obama.

Then shorter Mika:

Yes master Joe – you are correct as always.

It really tells you how bad Scarborough’s views are when MSNBC has to pay someone to just agree with him on everything so he looks good. Glenn Beck doesn’t even need that.