Mind The Gender Gap, Lads

The latest Quinnipiac national poll finds President Obama up four, but again the crosstabs are where the meat is at.  Romney has a healthy ten-point lead among men right now...but President Obama is up eighteen points among women voters.

American likely voters say 60 - 25 percent that the federal government would make progress addressing the nation's problems if one party controls the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives.

Voters dislike the Democratic Party less than they dislike the Republican Party, giving the Democrats a negative 45 - 49 percent favorability rating, compared to a negative 41 - 52 percent for the Republicans.

"President Barack Obama won only about 43 percent of the white vote in 2008, so his current standing among whites tracks his earlier winning performance," said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. "If the president can match or exceed his 2008 showing among whites it will be difficult to impossible for Romney to win.

"It is also very difficult to win an election when you are getting shellacked among women, the group that makes up about half the electorate."

"Historically, voters have preferred divided government in the belief that one side can keep the other in line, but these numbers may indicate that the public is fed up with gridlock in Washington," said Brown.

Imagine that.  Americans are sick of gridlock and a do-nothing Congress blocked by Republicans, President Obama is doing just as well among white voters as he did four years ago, and people prefer Democrats to Republicans.

But the polls are skeeeeeeeeeeeeewed.

Please.