Today, the New York Times reports on the Clinton campaign’s efforts to woo elderly women. It’s clear that the campaign is scrambling for female supporters at campaign events, the Times reports, using those who do show up as “welcome set pieces, visibly demonstrating the candidate’s effort to highlight her sex and her overtures to female voters, whom the campaign is counting on to propel her to the Democratic presidential nomination.” Although Clinton has polled better among women than men, Obama is now nearly tied with her among women in some polls, which surely ought to make her campaign nervous. And the women who do support her? They are nothing like her, as the Boston Globe reported last week:
The Globe also notes that, according to polls of primary voters in New Hampshire and elsewhere, “Clinton has higher support among Democratic women without a college degree than among better-educated women.” Reading between the lines, it is clear that women who are most like Hillary Clinton are not supporting her in droves. Why?
