Polls Suggest White Women Like McCain, Palin, Pandering

A poll conducted by the Washington Post and ABC News suggests an increase in support for John McCain since he plucked Sarah Palin from the slobbering jaws of some Arctic moose-bear:

The Washington Post/ABC News poll found that much of McCain’s surge in the polls since the Republican National Convention is attributable to the shift in support among white women.

The race for the White House is now a virtual tie, with Obama at 47 percent support of registered voters and McCain at 46 percent, the poll found.

Before the Democratic National Convention in late August, Obama held an 8 percentage point lead among white women voters, 50 percent to 42 percent, but after the Republican convention in early September, McCain was ahead by 12 points among white women, 53 percent to 41 percent, the poll found.

And what do Obama’s people think about all this?:

Asked about the findings during a briefing on Monday before the poll was published, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe told a Washington Post reporter, “Well, your poll is wrong.”

It does seem like quite a leap, to be sure. And, well. If the polls aren’t wrong, as arugula-munchers seem to suggest, then who are these White women, we wonder? Former Hillary supporters now supporting a woman who is for drilling abstinent teens for feminism or whatever because God said so? We just can’t picture it.

Poll shows big shift to McCain among white women [Reuters]