With two wars raging and an economy in turmoil, President Obama took his case to the couch at ABC’s "The View".

When asked why he chose that particular arena, the president joked, “I was trying to find a show that Michelle actually watched.” But it’s not just the First Lady who's tuning in. According to Nielsen Media Research 79% of "The View"’s audience is female, a demographic that’s started to cool on the president.

Fox News/Opinion Dynamics polling shows Mr. Obama averaged a 59% approval rating among women in 2009, but seven months into 2010, that’s dipped 14 points to just 45%. That’s tough news for a party that is used to benefitting from the gender gap, a phenomenon political analyst Larry Sabato says surfaced in the 1980 presidential election. “It exists in almost all elections, ranging from five to eight percentage points,” according to Sabato.

That begs the question: Why are women more drawn to the Democratic party? Amanda Terkel, Managing Editor for Thinkprogress.org, says Democrats have simply done a better job working on the issues women care most about. “[Women] want equal pay, to make sure they can afford healthcare, that they won’t be penalized because of gender,” Terkel says. Worries about the economy may be eroding female voters’ trust that the Obama administration can get the job done, and now Republicans are hoping to capitalize.

Sabato says the timing couldn’t be better and that “Republicans have recruited lots of women.” In South Carolina, there’s gubernatorial nominee Nikki Haley. In California, Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman are in high profile races. Sabato says the GOP knows what’s at stake in going after female voters. “They’ve looked at demographic figures,” Sabato adds, “they understand that moving forward into the 21st century, the Republican party can’t be perceived as a white, male party.”

Shoring up the effort to reach women is the party’s most prominent female, Sarah Palin. The 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee and Fox contributor has blanketed the country endorsing candidates she calls Mama Grizzlies, and predicts they could make all the difference in the fall midterm elections. “This year will be remembered as the year when common sense conservative women get things done for our country,”Palin told supporters.

Not everyone’s convinced. Terkel says it’s about more than just having a female on the ticket, that if Republicans don’t connect with women on the issues – they can’t expect their votes. “I think for the immediate future, until Republicans offer real alternatives, women with stick with Democrats.”

http://whitehouse.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/07/29/obama-losing-ground-with-women/

To make up for the loss, Hussein will allow fat broads to vote twice.

I connect with lots of women (literally), and most of them KNOW they've been betrayed by Oblowme.

The majority of the people who voted for Obama are beginning to realize or already realize that they were duped and betrayed by a guy with good speaking skills, no experience and a socialist agenda who picked for the most part nothing but criminals and tax cheats for his cabinet and staff members. Also picked several Lobbyists for his staff(which he, during the campaign said he was firmly against lobbyists and wouldn't have them on his staff).

Also not to mention his close friendship and ties to a serious Domestic Terrorist(Ayers), several buy offs(Including a nice little addition to Obama's house in Chicago) from convicted political fixer and felon(Rezko) and of course the Racist anti-semantic pastor and long time friend and spiritual adviser(Wright).

Also I believe he was involved with the Senate Seat scandal with Blago,, since his staff was in serious negotiations with Blago's people for a while then suddenly stopped all the sudden(can we say tipped off?).

and I think he is gonna kill the prime minister of malaysia too!!

and he MIGHT have owned a bicycle that belonged to Lee Harvey Oswald(thus tying him to the murder of Kennedy)

and he served on a board with some guy who had been arrested for drunk driving as a college student, when Barack was five, thus PROVING that he condones such behavior,,,

lol,,,

smh,,it never stops,,,its like a potpourri of insane assumptions, implications, and conclusions on these threads,,,