She is voting for Trump because her husband is.

[trof]

She is in her late 60s, a retired school teacher.
She is a sweet lady, educated, intelligent.
She was pregnant and married at 15.
Her first husband abused her, physically and mentally.
Eventually she divorced him.

She was a single mom for many years.
She remarried.
He is a retired FBI agent.
Worked mostly during the Hoover era.
Decent guy.

But he's voting for Trump, so that's her reason for voting for Trump.
I heard her say it.
And I just don't get it.
Stepford Wife?
I dunno.
It's discouraging.
"There are none so blind as those who WILL not see."

[riversedge]

1. I know some older women--and met some canvassing last weekend who will be doing

the same. dah!!

[athena]

2. Maybe she doesn't follow politics and is intimidated by it?

The only way I can imagine an intelligent and educated woman voting for Trump is if they don't follow politics and don't understand what is at stake.

If you could give her something simple and straightforward to read, perhaps she might reconsider?

[nolabear]

3. Some people are just timid.

They don't know who they want to be president, they don't know a lot about it, and it's more about their relationships with one another than it is about the presidency.

We DUers and the folks we hang with, not to mention the ones we see on TV and read about, are considerably more savvy politically and have more activist motives and leanings than many people do. I expect we'd be amazed if we could truly take a poll about not who but why people vote (not necessarily what they'll say but the underlying reasons).

[Freddie]

5. I know two women who are not!

Mother and daughter from my church. I'm friends with both and their husbands. Husbands post the usual anti-HRC crap. The ladies admired my new Clinton/Kaine yard sign. Must be fun times at their houses.

[Wellstone ruled]

6. People tend to vote their Tribal

previous patterns. And yes there are many who do not have a clue as to what a Candidate is all about. Blissful Ignorance runs deep.

[Frustratedlady]

8. Well, I'll give you a variation on that which you can solve for me...

I have a dear friend who has always followed her husband's choice when voting. He has been gone for 6 or more years. She will be voting for Trump because he is the candidate her husband would have chosen.

I don't know if you could include that in the column of voting from the grave? Hmmm!

[Cakes488]

9. It's just sad to lose yourself so much in someone else that you can't

even choose whom to vote for on your own. But I definitely know couples who fit this bill..and much worse than this. For example my brother hasn't made a decision in about 30 years LOL. Poor thing was neutered.

[Frustratedlady]

10. My husband could never tolerate women who couldn't think for themselves and were sheep to their

husbands. Fortunately, he preferred a mate who could stand up for herself and not require permission from him in her daily decisions. It is almost embarrassing to watch an exchange between such a couple.

[Cakes488]

14. Yes there are times when it's been very embarrassing!!!! n/t

[trof]

17. At a cocktail party, MANY years ago, a woman asked Miz t. ...

"Do you LET him DO that?"
(Neither one of us remembers what this was about now.)
"Honey, I don't LET him do a damn thing. He's a grown up; I'm a grown up. We don't "LET" each other do stuff. He makes his decisions, I make mine.
If we disagree about something the other one does we talk about it and try and come to some compromise or understanding."

'At's my girl!

[Frustratedlady]

19. Yep! Makes a marriage much more interesting and solid. eom

[a kennedy]

12. I'm terribly nervous about closet voters as well.......

[BainsBane]

13. Or maybe that's what she tells her husband

and she votes her own mind.

[Awsi Dooger]

15. Sounds like one of my sisters

She became a Clinton-hating wingnut solely based on the politics of the guy she married.

It will never change. She puppets everything he says politically, which isn't difficult between his political vocabulary is basically one sentence: Get government out of my life.

[NurseJackie]

16. Sad. I also know people like that ... in my own family.

Old school ... but that generation is dying off. Sometimes people just CAN'T change, I guess.

[Ligyron]

18. I've never understood this in women.

My ex was totally disengaged from Politics. Ask me to give her a cheat sheet for in person voting when that's really all that was available where we lived. Had to have a note from your doctor, mommy or something if you were you requested an absentee ballot.

So I gave her a cheat sheet and she went off shopping - which is what she did best anyway. I guess it worked.

Well, for a while anyway.

[grossproffit]

20. There are some women that don't think a woman should be president. Conversation I had inside:

I've posted this early in the primaries, but here it is again.

Goes like this:

Her: "I'd never vote for a woman president, but I'd support a woman as vice president."

Me: "And once he completes his term and she runs for president?"

Her: "I wouldn't vote for her. A woman shouldn't be president."

Me: "You do realize that if the president is unable to perform his duty that the vice president takes over, right?"

Her: "Well, they should change that then if a woman is vice president."