The latest Gallop Poll of the Democratic and Republican candidates says:

Democrats

Hillary Clinton 31%

Barack Obama 19%

John Edwards 10%

Al Gore 9%

John Kerry 7%

Republicans

Rudy Giuliani 28%

John McCain 26%

Condoleezza Rice 13%

Newt Gingrich 7%

Mitt Romney 5%

Pollster Dick Morris (http://www.vote.com/) observed that the poll shows the ‘gender gap’ widening: “Both Democratic and Republican women disproportionately support their parties female candidates.” Hillary Clinton receives a whopping 15% higher vote from women than men; twice as many women as men vote for Condoleezza Rice.

Morris adds that “nineteen million single women voted in 2000 and 27 million came out in 2004 and 27 million came out in 2004. If a woman runs for President, it stands to reason that such turnout will rise still further. If single women vote in proportion to their share of the population, they would account for 32 million votes in 2008. Since women who are either divorced, widowed, or never married voted Democratic by a two-to-one margin in 2004 and 2006, it is likely that this influx of single women will be crucial to Hillary’s candidacy (or to Rice’s if she decides to run).”

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