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Friday, November 4, 2006 UGA Contact: Molly Moreland Myers, 706/542-2846 NCRW Reports new Poll: Women Voters Want Troops out of Iraq Athens, Ga. -- The Institute for Women’s Studies at the University of Georgia presents findings collected from a non-partisan poll conducted by the National Council for Research on Women about issues important to women in the upcoming election in order to promote a more educated Georgia citizenry. The NCRW report follows. Thursday, November 2, 2006—With the election rapidly approaching, candidates who favor getting American troops out of Iraq have a nearly three-to-one advantage among women voters over politicians who want to stay the course. That’s the message from a major new poll of registered voters released today. And, according to NCRW, the National Council for Research on Women, women voters are leading the electorate in demanding a pullout. Iraq showed up on the NCRW poll as the most important voting issue, with more than one out of five naming it first or second on an open-ended question, leading the economy, health care and education, the only other issues cited by more than one out of ten people. “This is across the board, in every section of the country, in cities and rural areas, across racial divides, American women say they’re ready to vote for get-out-of-Iraq candidates against stay-in-Iraq candidates, with a three to one preference for candidates who want to get the troops out of Iraq over those who want to keep the troops there,” according to NCRW President Linda Basch. “Candidates in every region will do better by calling for bringing the troops home than by advocating for staying the course. In the South—among all voters, women and men, it’s a two-to-one margin for the peace candidates,” according to Basch. Black and Hispanic women are even more united in their opposition to the war. Among black women voters, 83 percent would vote for candidates who favor withdrawal from Iraq. Among Hispanic women voters, the margin is 68 to 11, or six to one. In the NCRW poll, Democratic women favored candidates who want to bring the troops home by over eight to one (78 percent to 9 percent). Independent women favored bring-the-troops-home candidates by five to one (60 percent to 12 percent). Republican women were slightly likelier to vote for stay-the-course candidates (42 percent to 35 percent). The NCRW poll was conducted on the telephone between September 28 and October 9 among a random sample of 2,097 registered voters by Opinion Research Corporation of Princeton NJ. The margin of error is two percentage points. The National Council for Research on Women is a network of more than 100 leading U.S. research, advocacy and policy centers with a growing global reach. The Council harnesses the resources of its network to build a more inclusive and equitable world for women and girls. The Institute for Women’s Studies at the University of Georgia is a member of the National Council for Research on Women. #### |
