This isn’t really news, Pew showed Newt’s weakness with women back in December. But The State is out with this article today, in pertinent part:
Who will win? It could depend on who votes — men or women — and where they live — the Upstate or coast.
“It may be very close,” Matt Moore, executive director of the S.C. Republican Party, said Friday.
Polling shows Gingrich and Romney running neck and neck. But it also shows a gender divide between the two front-runners, sources in the Romney campaign said Friday. Women voters are breaking for Romney and men for Gingrich, they said.
Frankly, I’ve been wondering when the heck someone was going to write about this so I’m glad to see it noted.
Now remember – the gender gap can exist and often is used to refer to the gap between how men and women vote for a single candidate (men really like Gingrich but women don’t). But the gap between how women vote for Romney and not for Gingrich also affects the outcome.
Read the full post at Writes Like She Talks.