Why the 2016 election may produce the largest gender gap in history

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So I’ll go ahead right now and predict that if Trump and Hillary Clinton are the nominees, the 2016 vote is going to show the largest gender gap of any election in our history.

There are multiple reasons why. To begin with, women are more likely to be Democrats; it’s been 28 years since a Republican won a majority of women voters. Then there’s Trump’s particularly crude sexism, aimed at celebrities and journalists and any woman he doesn’t like. Then there’s the fact that he’s someone who starts looking around for a new, younger wife when his current one hits her forties. Then there are incidents like the one where his campaign manager manhandled a female reporter, then denied it happened while he and his boss basically called her a crazy bitch. Then there’s his frequent display of a kind of anxious masculinity, in which he talks about the size of his penis and poses as a tough guy eager to beat up protesters, which women voters are bound to find repellent.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/03/17/why-the-2016-election-may-produce-the-largest-gender-gap-in-history/