Wall Street Journal goes cuckoo for cross tabs on white suburban women
UPDATE: NPR/PBS/Marist poll released Wednesday found essentially no change among suburban women in last couple months:
-Suburban women in late Aug/early Sept—52D/ 35R
-Suburban women now—53D/34 R
Not to be outdone by all the garbage GOP polls swamping the aggregators, the Wall Street Journal used what was ostensibly a good poll of 1,500 people to make a fanciful claim that white suburban women have wholesale defected from Democrats.
Based on a subsample of 150 women, the poll, conducted by Republican pollster Tony Fabrizio and Democratic pollster John Anzalone, found that white women living in suburban areas now prefer generic Republican candidates by 15 points, a net shift of 27 points away from Democrats since the outlet’s August poll. The key issue driving the wholesale defection from Democrats was the economy, according to the poll.
“We’re talking about a collapse, if you will, in that group on the perceptions of the economy,” Fabrizio said.