Not sure where women were asked this question, as I am a woman and never heard or saw this poll anywhere.

I prefer the President. Romney can't take a stand one way or the other. Talk about a flip flopper, one week its this, the next week its that. His insensitivity is beyond anything I've ever seen, with his new $30 million house, his liking to fire people, etc., what comes out of his mouth is senseless. Trees are just the right height?

If you're going to poll 3-4 cities and only get 300 people (in this case women) responding that is not a poll of any gravity and irresponsible. To report this sounds like you're right leaning and pushing a Republican agenda.

Lake Forest
BIG SURPRISE!!

Dear Standards. Thanks for your comment. We did not ask 339 women. 339 women responded to the poll that was posted on all three Patch sites. The premise was to compare the results of a poll conducted by the Pew Research Center with the local communities in our unscientific poll.

Unscientific and hopefully very wrong for the sake of the women.

Any woman voting for Romney is a Stepford wife.

Really? Stepford Wives?

Thanks for this insightful albeit misogynistic analysis of female voters. You've given me a deeper understanding of the nature of women and their ability to make effective independent decisions based on their understanding of the facts and issues facing our country.

I'll be sure to share your heartfelt and powerful analysis with my wife, mother, sister and numerous friends as they head to the polls to vote for Romney.

RB- Women voting for Obama? Well, first and foremost, no candidate is suggesting the banning of contraception, so let's not be liars here. And "peace"? You think Obama won't attack Iran if he becomes re-elected and they come close to getting The Bomb? A clean environment? Well, he wants one here, but then goes to Brazil (on stinky Air Force One) to convince THEIR president to drill, baby drill. Affordable health care? Dream on.

RB - interesting positions you make. As one reader, I have a simple request. Would you kindly include one or two actual facts to support any of your positions? Take your pick, choose one or all of them.

Here's an example of how this might work:

You state, electing Romney will mean the absence of ______________ (fill in with one or all of your *points below) because ___________________________ (fill in with actual verifiable, measurable facts to explain your points of view.

In other words, engage in an authentic, mutually respectful dialogue. I'm open to hearing your point of view. Unsupported vaguely threatening predictions are a waste of everyones time.

I eagerly await your response.

*Contraception
*Abortion rights
*Education
*Medicare
*A balanced budget
*Peace (peace?)
*Income tax reform
*Voters rights
*A clean environment
*No drilling in Alaskan wildlife sanctuary
*Assault gun control
*Equality
*A national affordable healthcare

A liberal republican, a moderate republican and a conservative republican walks into a bar...the bartender says, "Hi Mitch"...

@Mitch Litrofsky, I like your idea but authentic, mutually respectful dialogue has long been absent from most political discourse which is sad. Both men have things to offer and things that detract. It would be nice to hear the kinds of discussion you suggest instead of the nasty vitriol spewed by all sides. I liked a number of the initiatives the moderate Romney implemented in Massachusetts including his Romneycare that has an individual mandate and which has proven to be both successful and popular in Massachusetts. Now he's forced to backpeddle to win over conservatives.

On NPR this was once discussed in a logical manner and one major point made was that Massachusetts (Romney care) was subsidized by the federal government which, even in the good times, could not afford to subsidize all 50 states plus Wash., DC.

GUANTANAMO:

LA TIMES: Aug. 2, 2007: Sen. Barack Obama makes a simple promise he will often repeat to loud domestic -- and foreign -- applause during his $750 million presidential campaign:

"As President, I will close Guantanamo, reject the Military Commissions Act and adhere to the Geneva Conventions. Our Constitution and our Uniform Code of Military Justice provide a framework for dealing with the terrorists."

Jan. 22, 2009: ... as one of his very first official Oval Office acts, Barack Obama signs an executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility within one year:

"This is me following through on not just a commitment I made during the campaign, but I think an understanding that dates back to our founding fathers, that we are willing to observe core standards of conduct, not just when it's easy, but also when it's hard."

Huffington Post, April 7, 2012: President Barack Obama reversed course Monday and ordered a resumption of military trials for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, making his once ironclad promise to close the isolated prison look even more distant.

OBAMA OPPOSES SAME-SEX MARRIAGE:

2008: In an interview with MTV, Obama says he opposes Prop 8, but also gay marriage. Civil unions, the candidate says, are sufficient:

"I have stated my opposition to [Prop 8]. I think it is unnecessary. I believe that marriage is between a man and woman and I am not in favor of gay marriage, but when you're playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that that is not what America is about. "

White House senior adviser David Axelrod tells MSNBC that Obama "does oppose same-sex marriage, but he supports equality for gay and lesbian couples. … He supports civil unions. That’s been his position throughout. So nothing has changed."

Romney is also for "equality":

June 7, 2011: Romney on Piers Morgan Tonight:

"Of course, basic civil rights, and certain appropriate benefits should be available to people in non-traditional relationships. But marriage is a special institution between a man and a woman, and our Constitution and laws should reflect that."

RB-Please define "evolving". As far as I am concerned, either you are for gay marriage or against. Romney and Obama are against it. (I am for it.) I see no evolution here.

Also, why would you capitalize "Gay Marriage"? I don't get it?