Barack Obama won 35% of the women's vote in the Iowa caucus last Thursday.
From this Sunday's "The Fix" by Chris Cillizza and Shailagh Murray in today's Washington Post:
One surprising headline from Iowa was how Obama beat Clinton among women, despite all the intense wooing by the Clinton camp and outside interest groups such as Emily's List.
Obama's real edge came with single and divorced women. According to entrance polls Clinton narrowly won among married women, but Obama dominated among unmarried women, winning by 13 percentage points. Democrats are targeting unmarried women as a potentially significant new voting pool and the Iowa causes are suggesting those efforts may be paying off.
He is ahead in the New Hampshire polls with women voters as well:
On the heels of his stunning win in Iowa, a McClatchy-MSNBC poll showed Obama with the support of 33 percent of New Hampshire Democratic voters, against 31 percent for Clinton.
Another poll, by the Concord Monitor newspaper, had Obama with a slender one-point lead over Clinton, 34 to 33 percent, and had him leading among independent and female voters.
Check out Women for Obama.
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