Why Married Men Might Be an Overlooked but Crucial Voting Bloc
Why Married Men Might Be an Overlooked but Crucial Voting Bloc
The gender gap is well known in politics. The marriage gap is more obscure — but could inform how campaigns think about key groups of voters in the next elections.
By Marc Tracy at the NY Times
July 15, 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/15/us/politics/married-men-voters.html
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The gender gap is one of the best-known dynamics in American politics. Put simply: Women lean liberal, men lean conservative. (As a character in “The West Wing” put it: “If women were the only voters, the Democrats would win in a landslide every time. If men were the only voters, the G.O.P. would be the left-wing party.”)
Similar, but more obscure, is the “marriage gap,” which describes the fact that single people trend liberal while married people skew conservative.
If both men and married people lean to the right, one would expect married men to be an extremely reliable Republican constituency. That is why it has been so surprising that recent analyses of the 2020 election show that in the past five years, married men, though still more Republican than not, significantly shifted in the direction of Democrats.
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To Ms. Greenberg, the thought of deliberately targeting married men — and white married men especially — is unfamiliar to say the least. Democratic campaigns tend to target different kinds of female voters and voters of color, she said.
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But I'm going to guess married men are impacted by the women they live with, & also their children. They see how badly the GOP treats women, cuz the women they live with are pissed! And that the GOP denies climate change, & who's going to feel the affects of climate change most? Our kids.
Yesterday there was a commentary that vaxxer rage would drive the 22 election—in other words, those of us who are vaxxed will be so angry at the anti-vaxxers & that because of them Covid is never going away that we'll go to the polls in mass to hopefully give congress the dem majorities we need to get stuff done. I hope the author is right. I know I was pissed when I read that the US is #1 in infections again. 
