WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- The latest Lifetime TV/Zogby poll surveying potential woman voters in the U.S. presidential race indicates Sen. Barack Obama's 'Oprah bump' is short-lived.
The poll indicated nearly a third of woman aged 18 to 29 were less likely to support Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., following his endorsement by Oprah Winfrey, the Dallas Morning News said Thursday.
The poll showed 17 percent of women over 65 shared the sentiments of their younger counterparts.
However, an equal number of women surveyed said they looked more favorably on Obama following the endorsement by the television talk show diva who campaigned with Obama in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.
Potential female Democratic voters in New Hampshire backed Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., by 39 percent over Obama, who gathered only 25 percent support of those polled.
New Hampshire's Republican woman voters backed former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney by 23 percentage points compared to Arizona Sen. John McCain with 16 percent support.
The telephone poll conducted Dec. 6 – 8 surveyed roughly 1,000 women nationally as part of Lifetime TV's women voting campaign. The New Hampshire poll of 500 women had a plus or minus margin of error of 4.5 percentage points.
