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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhite women had doubts but voted for the Anus anyway
Heading into Election Day, forecasters predicted that Republican Donald Trump whose ascent to the White House prompted women to organize the largest single-day protest in U.S. history would be soundly defeated in part due to a double-digit gender gap like the country has never seen.
Instead, Democrat Joe Biden barely eked out a win, and the female electorate remained largely unchanged from 2016 and even 2012. White women who said they were having second thoughts about the president, citing their concerns about health care during the COVID-19 pandemic, his divisive racial rhetoric and even his general demeanor, ultimately chose to stand by him.
Article at:
https://19thnews.org/2020/11/white-women-had-doubts-they-voted-for-trump-anyway/
Frances
(8,531 posts)Voted for Biden
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)If the white women who voted for Biden had not voted for Biden, Biden would have lost. Even if every single woman of color voted for Biden. So, let's hear it for white women! True also of the White men who voted for Biden. If they had not voted for Biden, he would have lost. Same for the women of color.
It took people from many demographics to vote for Biden for him to win. And that's what happened.
boston bean
(36,186 posts)Which skewed heavily toward trump.
Squinch
(50,774 posts)learn something that refutes this.
SharonClark
(10,005 posts)arent proof of anything.
DinahMoeHum
(21,737 posts). . .exit polls on Election Day itself don't mean bupkis anymore.
bullimiami
(13,044 posts)We need to keep growing our numbers and involvement.
We outnumber them already.
onetexan
(12,994 posts)as well. Jim Crow is alive and well in this day & age, just manifests itself in different ways:
https://www.findlaw.com/voting/how-do-i-protect-my-right-to-vote-/jim-crow-laws.html
What gives me hope is, as this article points out, the crucial Trump voting bloc that drifted to Biden were the white working class.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-crucial-trump-voting-bloc-that-drifted-to-biden-173317534.html
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)mcar
(42,210 posts)From what planet is this being reported?
JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)... according to the article.
Most Biden voters never exited any polling places because they voted by mail.
Thus, the polling sample this claim is based on is heavily slanted to Republicans who ditifully voted in person like their candidate Trump told them to and omits most Dems.
hamsterjill
(15,214 posts)Im an old white woman who has never voted for a Republican ANYTHING in her life.
I read the posts days ago that black men voted for Trump.
I just dont think its that simple. I mean, I understand the concept of trying to understand the electorate. But if someone sees me on the street, I dont think they should automatically think I supported Trump.
luv2fly
(2,475 posts)Not all of them voted for the Anus, despite the images on television.
hamsterjill
(15,214 posts)n/t
csziggy
(34,120 posts)No way he'd ever vote for Trump or any Republican! If he had, he would no longer be my husband.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Figured as much with the OP, but your response pretty much verified it as such.
Tough old world, eh?
luv2fly
(2,475 posts)Article posted, reasonably healthy discussion ensues. No need for you to assume my intent. Enjoy the day.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)there are only a few endings that are true.
...are white
...are women
...are human beings
Anything else simply is not a true statement, because "White women" by definition means ALL white women. If you don't mean all white women, then say which ones. For instance, if you want to talk about the white women who voted for Trump, say "Right wing white women voted for Trump." Much more accurate.
Millions of white women voted for Biden. Far more, by sheer numbers, than any other group of people except for women in general. Without the white women who voted for Biden, he would have lost.
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)It makes you feel responsible for how everyone else voted (all other white women) even though you have no control over them. Also seems to place blame on you for something you didn't do. We at fault for what some other people of the same gender and ethnicity did.
AkFemDem
(1,798 posts)They are skewed. This is continuously pointed out- these people were in person voters, they skewed pro Trump.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,848 posts)... on election night (that it included early voters), then Biden won in-person voting by about 5% around the country. That clearly wasn't the case.
I also just noticed it mentions how the absentee voters were sampled in their exit poll below -- "Absentee and early voters are represented by either telephone polls or in-person exit polls at early voting locations."
https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/exit-polls/president/national-results
Edit: The voting bloc that made the election close at all was the white evangelicals AGAIN. They overwhelmingly voted for Trump AGAIN, and they comprised about 42% of all white voters (27% white evangelicals divided by 65% of whites) which is significantly more than their percentage in everyday life. They were obviously very motivated to support their anti-Christ candidate yet again.
DinahMoeHum
(21,737 posts). . .only what went on in-person on Election Day itself.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,848 posts)"Absentee and early voters are represented by either telephone polls or in-person exit polls at early voting locations."
If indicates that Biden should win the overall popular vote by about 5%+ too, and that certainly wasn't the case among election day voters.
JI7
(89,182 posts)Most of that is based on same day voting exit polls where those who supported Trump were more likely to vote while those who supported Biden were more likely to do it earlier by mailing in their ballots.
You can see this just by how this election played out in the last few days where some key states had Trump leading by hundreds of thousands but it went down as the mailed ballots started being counted and Biden ended up winning the states.
KentuckyWoman
(6,666 posts)ananda
(28,783 posts)I won't speak for the country cousins, though...
luv2fly
(2,475 posts)Agreed.
That said, too many women (and men, but we're discussing women) voted for this despicable POS and the article more broadly exposes some of their thinking. That any woman (and any man as well, but we're discussing women) can disregard the way he treats women boggles my mind. Who in the hell marries this guy? Please... may I never meet you.
I know, he mistreats everything and everyone. It's what he do.
JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)These same operations said Joe was up by 17 points in Wisconsin, it was close in Ohio, Florida, and Iowa, and the Senate races were close in SC, ME, and other states. All wrong.
So now we're supposed to believe they got a representative sample of Dems who mostly voted by mail to conclude a huge longstanding gender gap against Trump miraculously transformed into a majority pro-Trump vote? Balderdash!
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WhiskeyGrinder
(22,150 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)luv2fly
(2,475 posts)That surprises me as he was on the ballot in a dozen states.