Boxer: Women’s Vote Will ‘Flock’ To Obama

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), seeking to allay any concerns that supporters of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) won’t vote for Barack Obama this November, stressed that John McCain’s record has not been friendly to women.

“I double-checked John McCain’s record. He is a zero on a woman’s right to choose. Now, you have to be a pretty far right to be a zero on a woman’s right to choose,” Boxer said on CNN Tuesday. She was responding to a question from Wolf Blitzer over whether support for McCain among Clinton voters would hold.

“He wants to criminalize the right to choose,” Boxer added. “He wants to overturn Roe v. Wade. That will take us back to before the ’70s. He has a zero record on funding the victims of domestic violence. He has a zero record on equal pay for equal work. He didn’t even show up for the last vote we had on equal pay for equal work. So, the fact is, yes, there are people who are hurt and they feel bad, and I get it. Look, I have been in tough campaigns myself where I have had to support someone who won a primary and I was sad about it.”

Boxer also said that Obama’s childhood, during which he lived with his single mother and his grandparents, would help him with women voters.

“I think, as soon as everyone takes a hard, cold look at these two candidates and what they represent and what they believe in, particularly the women will flock to Barack Obama’s side, not only because of his life story, the fact that he is married to a working woman who has had to balance all these demands, the fact that he was raised by a single mom and a lot by a grandma,” Boxer said.

Boxer had not endorsed Clinton or Obama during the Democratic primaries, but she said that she planned to vote for Clinton at the convention.