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Article: Obama, McCain pursue support from female voters on different paths
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- July 11, 2008
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It's women's week on the presidential campaign trail, judging from the attention that Barack Obama and John McCain are lavishing on female voters and issues especially important to them.
Obama, campaigning here Thursday with former Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton, criticized McCain's opposition to an equal-pay Senate bill, his support for conservative-leaning Supreme Court justices and his abortion-rights objections.
"I will never back down in defending a woman's right to choose," Obama said at a "Women for Obama" breakfast fundraiser.
McCain, the Republican from Arizona, planned a similar day Friday when he will meet with female business ...