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A17 BY SPENCER S. HSU When senior Obama adminis-
tration officials invoked the state secrets privilege Saturday to dis- miss a lawsuit brought on behalf of U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Aul- aqi, they declared in federal court that the case threatened to expose secret military and intelligence operations against al-Qaeda’s overseas network. In a 60-page filing, the govern-
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Apollster saysMeg Whitman,GOPcandidate for governor in California, is keeping the race close because she is breaking through to traditional Democratic constituencies such as women.
Democrats’ success could depend on women C
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an women save the Democrats? The gender contours of
American politics have been clear for many years. Democrats have long enjoyed a decided advantage among female voters, less so among men. Over the next five weeks, Democrats’ hopes of holding theHouse and Senate may depend on their success in once again rallying those female voters. Right now, Democrats are
doing far better among women than men, but in many places not by enough. In a number of states, men are supporting Republican candidates by significant margins, while women are backing Democratic candidates but not by as much as in some past years. FrankNewport of the Gallup organization said the gap between men and women this fall is not significantly different from the gap in past elections. But since 2006, when Democrats captured theHouse and Senate, there has been an overall shift toward Republicans. Four years ago, on the eve of
the 2006 midterms, men were evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats in their voting intentions for the House, while women were Democratic by 22 percentage points. Today,Newport said, 52 percent of men say they plan to vote Republican and 40 percent say they will vote for the Democrat.Women are the opposite: 52 percent Democrat and 40 percent Republican. CNN released a series of
statewide polls last week, showing much the same. In Colorado, Republican challenger Ken Buck led Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet 49 percent to 44 percent among likely voters. Among men, it was Buck 56 percent, Bennet 36 percent. Among women, it was Bennet 52 percent, Buck 41 percent. In Wisconsin, Republican Ron
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Johnson led Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold 51 percent to 45 percent. Johnson held a 16-point lead among men, Feingold had a five-point lead among women. In Pennsylvania, Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak trailed Republican Pat Toomey in their Senate race by five points, primarily because women were evenly divided while men were backing Toomey.
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In Delaware, where Republican Christine O’Donnell shocked the GOP establishment by defeating Rep.Michael Castle in the Senate primary, women are the principal reason O’Donnell now badly trails Democratic nominee Chris Coons. The CNN poll found that, among likely voters, Coons led O’Donnell 55 percent to 39 percent.Men backed Coons by just three points.Women favored him by a 2-to-1 margin (61 vs. 32 percent). Ed Goeas, a Republican
pollster, is conducting polls for former Republican representative John Kasich, who is challenging Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland (Ohio). Goeas said that in his polls, Kasich is running about even among women but is roughly 10 points ahead among men. “You’re seeing a gender gap,
but more in the direction of [Kasich] over-performing with women from where we should be and really over-performing with men compared with where we should be,” he said. In California, RepublicanMeg Whitman, the former eBay CEO, is running even with Democratic Attorney General Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown Jr. in their race for governor, according to the latest Field Poll.Men and women are evenly split between Whitman and Brown. MarkDiCamillo,who directs
the poll, saidWhitman has kept the race a toss-up, despite Democrats heavily outnumbering Republicans in registration because she has been successful in attracting the votes ofwomen. “The reasonWhitman is close is she is really breaking through to traditionalDemocratic constituencies,” he added. “The biggest example iswomen.” California men, he said, have
often divided relatively evenly between Democratic and Republican candidates. The reason Democrats have won so
consistently in statewide races is because women have strongly backed the Democrats. “California is a blue state,” he said. “It is a Democratic state. Usually there is a double-digit advantage among women for Democrats.” In contrast, Republican Carly
Fiorina, the formerHewlett- Packard CEO, is trailing Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer in the same Field Poll. Boxer leads among both men and women, although her lead among women is only in the single digits. Fiorina is more conservative than Whitman, which may account for her problem. “You’re not seeing Fiorina
cutting into those Democratic constituencies,” DiCamillo said. Part of the Democrats’ problem this year is that men have turned against them in big numbers. White, blue-collar men are particularly alienated from the party, according to Democratic strategists. That puts an extra premium
on women. Democrats hoping to hold down losses are pinning their hopes on mobilizing women and say they see evidence that, when sharp contrasts are drawn with the Republican candidate, numbers move in their direction. But there are obstacles this
year. Democrats do better among unmarried women than among married women. But unmarried women have been hit hard by the recession and may be more difficult than usual to motivate. “They’re in tough shape, and they’re hard to get energized,” said Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg. Democrats remember 1994. In
that year, an estimated 16 million women who had voted in 1992 did not show up at the polls. That was one of a number of factors behind the GOP landslide that year. “Our job is to motivate core
Democratic women to get out to vote,” said Stephanie Schriock, president of Emily’s List. And how much harder is it
this fall than in other elections? “Because of the general enthusiasm gap that we’ve seen among Democrats already across the board,” she said, “it is a concern of all of ours.”
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ment asked U.S. District Judge Robert Bates to dismiss a lawsuit filed by civil rights groups re- tained by Aulaqi’s father seeking to block his Yemen-based son’s placement on the CIA and Joint Special Operations Command capture-or-kill list of suspected terrorists. The filing also asked the court
to dismiss the case without debat- ing the merits of any future ac- tions potentially taken against Aulaqi on the grounds that tar- geting in wartime is a matter for presidents, and that Aulaqi’s fa- ther did not have legal standing to bring the case. Civil rights groups filed a suit
last month to halt the targeting of Aulaqi, arguing that such an ac- tion outside a war zone and absent an imminent threat amounted to an extrajudicial exe- cution order against a U.S. citi- zen. In an effort to keep secret
particular operations in Yemen, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said classified “information concerning whether or not U.S. armed forces are planning to undertake military actions in a foreign country, against particu- lar targets, under what circum- stances, for what reasons and pursuant to what procedures or criteria” cannot be disclosed without seriously harming na- tional security. CIA Director Leon Panetta
sought to withhold “any informa- tion, if it exists, thatwouldtend to confirm or deny any allegations in the complaint pertaining to the CIA.”
Director of National Intelli-
gence James R. Clapper Jr. in his declaration cited Aulaqi’s leader- ship role in al-Qaeda in the Arabi- an Peninsula and a Dec. 25 bomb- ing plot against a Detroit-bound jetliner. Government filings quoted
Aulaqi as justifying the killings of U.S. citizens including children in a May 23 propaganda video: “No one should even ask us about targeting a bunch of Americans who would have been killed in an airplane. Our unsettled account with America includes, at the very least, one million women and children. I’mnot even talking about the men.” The American Civil Liberties
Union and the Center for Consti- tutional Rights, representing Nasser al-Aulaqi, said in a state- ment, “In matters of life and death, no executive should have a blank check.” Robert M. Chesney, a national
security law specialist at the Uni- versity of Texas School of Law, said Obama lawyers would un- doubtedly prefer to avoid debate over the limits of unilateral exec- utive wartime powers, or risk judicial review of its claim to a borderless battlefield. “But at the end of the day, if it’s
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your best argument in a case you want to win, you’re going to make that argument,” Chesney said. “The real big issue here is . . . are we only at war in Afghanistan, or can the U.S. government lawfully use war powers in other cases, at least where the host nation con- sents or there is no host govern- ment?”
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