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Interesting discussion on how women just ain't having Trump win, and why people are finally talking about it now.
"natesilver (Nate Silver, editor in chief): One answer is that the media is mostly dudes. But this is part of a broader issue also, which is that the media has only just now started to write how terrible a general election candidate Trump might be. Trumps favorables among the general electorate might have gotten a bit worse, but theyve been epically terrible since he launched his bid (actually, since before he launched it). Women are a big part of that, of course.
I mean, it literally took nine months for the conventional wisdom to recognize that someone could be astoundingly popular with a plurality of the electorate and extremely unpopular with a majority of it.
clare.malone (Clare Malone, senior political writer): The media interest has always been there; Megyn Kelly gets all kinds of credit for bringing up Trumps treatment of women from the very beginning of the campaign. But theres been a host of crazy things that hes said throughout the election, about a host of other groups and the misogyny thing has basically been this baseline element of Trump; its the foundation to his looming political tower built by big hands and no loans. Just look at the news that broke today: Trumps campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was charged with battery against former Breitbart News Network reporter Michelle Fields."
more here...
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/donald-trump-sexism-women-2016-election/
daleanime
(17,796 posts)equals "Alienate Woman".
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)his hurting his chances by alienating women voters.
JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)Past few elections up to the age of 75 - more women have voted than men.
It's in a clare.malone quote at the original article you posted:
Direct PDF - straight up numbers.
http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/resources/genderdiff.pdf
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Amazing! Why is that?