Obama Fares Worse Among Women after Month-Long Contraception Mandate Battle

◼ Washington Post poll contradicts Washington Post narrative about female voters. - Weekly Standard

How's the great contraception mandate battle of 2012 playing out? If you read the Washington Post's news coverage, the issue is supposedly killing Republicans among female voters. But the newest Washington Post/ABC poll tells a different story.

During the first few days of February, about a week before Obama declared a so-called "accommodation" to the contraception/abortifacient mandate, a Washington Post/ABC poll showed Obama's approval rating at 50 percent, with 46 percent of Americans disapproving.

Then, from March 7 to 10--a week into the national media firestorm surrounding Rush Limbaugh's degrading remarks about Georgetown Law student and liberal activist Sandra Fluke--Washington Post/ABC conducted another poll. It found Obama's approval rating at 46 percent, down four points from February, and his disapproval rating at 50 percent, up four points from February.
And in other polls:
◼ Poll: Only 37% Say Their Views More Like Obama’s Than Republicans, 59% Says He Is More Liberal Than Themselves… - Weasel Zippers
◼ 37% Say Their Views More Like Obama’s; 53% Pick One of GOP Contenders - Rasmussen
◼ ABC/Washington Post: Disapproval of Obama Handling of Gas Prices at 65%; Update: Salazar: President Feels Your Pain - Michelle Malkin

This helps explain the abrupt moratorium on any mention of our algae-powered future in Saturday’s energy address.

Update II: ◼ The latest CBS/NYT poll puts Obama’s approval at a new low of 41%. Word is the Department of Energy’s next contest will be a sizable award to the company that can invent a car that runs on contraceptives.

◼ CBS/NYT poll: Obama's approval ratings upside-down, hits new low - Politico

The numbers are similar to the dip his approval took in an ABC News/Washington Post poll earlier today, and the slippage is seen in lower-income households, and in relation to the economy and foreign policy, an issue that's been in the news of late.

◼ Poll: Obama's approval rating sinks to new low - CBS

◼ Obama has more problems than gas prices - Jennifer Rubin/Washington Post