Voice of the Voter: Women voters - 13abc.com Toledo (OH) News, Weather and Sports

A new poll shows Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is strengthening his standing with women.

13abc's Christine Long reports on the power of women in this week's Voice of the Voter.

Romney is narrowing the gap with women, according to a USA Today-Gallup poll. It shows he has pulled within one point of President Obama among women in swing states.

We spent the day talking to women of all ages and backgrounds here in Northwest Ohio.  Let's begin with Eloise Straley-Grover ... a retired 75-year-old who remains undecided."

 "Really, I think both of them are terrible," says Eloise Straley-Grover, a retired 75-year-old who remains undecided. 

During a break from art class at the Maumee Senior Center, Straley-Grover says she cares about Medicare and women's rights.

"I would never have an abortion but I don't want to take away the right of women to have an abortion if needed," says Straley-Grover.

At the TARTA bus station in Downtown Toledo, 44-year-old Rosylin Leach is on her way grocery shopping.  She's a mom of a soldier and voting for Obama because of his leadership.

"I got a son," says Leach. "He's 27 years old, he was stationed in Iraq, now he's stationed in California."

Diana Horn is unemployed and on Social Security.

Since finding a job is her number one priority, Horn says she's voting for Romney.    

"I just want to live comfortable. With the economy, the prices," says Horn.

On the Bowling Green State University Campus, junior accounting major Devon Trimeloni says the issue she cares about most is Planned Parenthood.

"There's a lot more into Planned Parenthood facilities than just birth control and I really think Mitt Romney needs to think about that before he gets rid of it," says Trimeloni.

"I'm kind of torn on who I'm voting for actually," says Stacy Matousek, a hair stylist at Custom Exteriors salon in Waterville. 

Matousek says the unemployment rate is too high.

"The job thing needs to get under control because that's really the whole thing. The tax thing, the school thing, without the jobs, all of that is a problem," says Matousek.

No matter the politics, this 75-year-old has sympathy for whoever wins the presidential election.

"Anybody who gets it this fall will get a lousy job. It's a no-win situation," says Straley-Grover.