see the gender gap has been pretty consistent while the horse race has been really volatile. jenna: so you re saying that poll that we just saw doesn t matter? no, i m not saying it doesn t matter, i m saying that women and men have been moving in concert. and why it s important and so you have, actually, a gender gap in the latest gallup poll that s ten points, and it s been 8-10 points in the last few weeks, i blogged about this in huffington post for folks who want to see the data. president obama could win by winning with women and losing with men, and that hasn t happened since 1996 and bill clinton who won with the largest gender gap we d had in a presidential election ever and lost by a point to bob dole. jenna: all right. angela? the problem is this, though, and when we talk about women s issues, i did a book bamboozled where i dedicated a whole chapter to what do women really want. and they care about the same issues as men. they care about the same issues
that s a mitt romney strategy. no, i m not i don t have depends who you re talking to. excuse me, i don t have the mitt romney strategy. i have the angela mcglowan strategy, so let me finish, please. if you poll one group, then they might care about abortion or the government paying for their birth control. having said that, women are not monolithic. we just don t care about reproductive rights. so again, it depends on what audience you polled in those swing states. jenna: margie? well, i would say a few things. first, that was a national poll, and a poll in swing states, so they weren t just talking to a specific group of women. but i would say this, for the first time gallup shows a majority of americans say and it s true of both men and women that we shouldn t have the government favor a set of values, that the government should get out of the business of moralizing to the american people. and by all and when you look at abortion specifically, gay rights or even ge
as all americans, national security. you re right, the economy is the number one issue and jobs, but, jenna, you brought up a point that a month ago obama was 18 points ahead, and now those points have actually centered because of the first debate. where you had an articulate mitt romney that laid out what he was going to do if as president to help create more jobs, and that s what women want. jenna: gallup just did a really interesting poll on women in swing states, and they asked women and men voters but women specifically in this question what do you consider the most important issue for women in this election, and women answered in the swing statements, abortion, which is interesting. and so, angela, my question for you is if the economy s the number one issue and republicans are really making that their agenda for women, are republicans missing an opportunity not to talk more about social issues? no. and they should talk about social issues, but it depends on what audience you p