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Women voters in the Nov. 2 Mid-Term Elections shot down President Barack Obama's Democratic candidates for Congress and state governorships.The statistics compiled by CNN Research are worth repeating because if the Obama Team can't turn around the numbers, they and their President are history when November 2012 rolls around.
Here is what CNN found after their reps talked to voters right after they had left the voting sites:
- Women split their votes evenly between Republican and Democratic candidates - the first time they had done so since 2002.
- White women collectively specifically gave 18 percent of their vote to the GOP.
- Married women voted 57 percent for the GOP.
- Single women turned out in smaller numbers than in 2008.
- Independents and seniors cast their votes mostly for the GOP.
- Young voters, who carried Obama to victory in 2008, showed up in fewer numbers.
- So did black voters. They made up 13 percent of the electorate in 2008 but only 10 percent Nov. 2. Ninety-six percent voted for the Democrats; four percent for the GOP.
- Hispanic voters continued to back the Democrats as they did in 2008.
- Republicans claimed 60 percent of the white vote.
- Overall, 41 percent of voters called themselves Conservatives. In 2006, the number was 32 percent.
- Overall again, Democrats were strong on the East and West coasts. The Republicans' strength came in the Midwest and the South.
The message from Nov. 2 is loud and clear. If the Obama Team and their leader can't win back the women, independents and seniors by the 2012 Presidential Election, they will become only another footnote in the history books.
