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At issue on Wednesday was the candidates' approach to gender
pay equity laws and Romney's comment during the debate that
he was sent "binders full of women" when he was governor of
Massachusetts.
Romney made the remark while recalling that he looked to
women's organizations after being dissatisfied with the
mostly male applicants for senior level positions in his
administration. But it set off a storm of media parodies, and
Obama jumped on the comment to try to portray Romney as out
of step with the concerns of women.
"We don't have to collect a bunch of binders to find
qualified, talented, driven young women," Obama said at a
rally in Mount Vernon, Iowa.
There was little mystery in the candidates' focus on women.
An AP-GfK survey taken in mid-September, when Obama was
leading in the opinion polls, found that 8 percent of all
likely votes were women who were either undecided or said
they might change their minds.
Polls since the first debate two weeks ago, when Obama fared
poorly, show gains for Romney among women voters. That's a
shift the Democratic president can ill afford given the
traditional Republican advantage among men. But Obama's
Tuesday night debate performance was much stronger than the
first time around, and he was staying on the attack on the
campaign trail Wednesday.
