2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThis is awesome: Women voting at higher rates than men relative to 2012 in EVERY STATE
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/4/1591326/-This-is-awesome-Women-voting-at-higher-rates-than-men-relative-to-2012-in-EVERY-STATEWhat this means is that, in every single state where the gender breakdown of early voting is available, women are voting at higher rates than men are relative to 2012. Every single one.
That is outstanding news for Hillary Clinton and Team Blue. Given that women skew Democratic, it strongly suggests that the early vote looks even better for Democrats than it seems.
Women are turning out in droves to elect Hillary Clinton the first female President of the United States, and to rebuke Donald Trump for his misogyny and admitted sexual assault.
Got gender gap?
Farmgirl1961
(1,493 posts)GOTV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
napi21
(45,806 posts)and second, The Con has done more than any candidate in history to piss women off!
I feel good about turnout so far, and I'm sure it will continue through Tuesday night. I can't keep the smile off my face when I think about Madam President Clinton!
AmericanActivist
(1,019 posts)He pissed off the women...all of them...the decent, intelligent, strong, thinking women who are not going to lay down and give up our rights. We are not going backward!
sheshe2
(83,758 posts)Oh yes we are!
grubbs
(356 posts)Never piss a woman off. If you screw them, they will screw you ten times harder. You should really believe that you phony rebulitard wanna be president delusional spork handed flatuating shit spewer.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,972 posts)I mean as a guy it offends me. I'm sure women like it less.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)SunSeeker
(51,553 posts)blue-wave
(4,352 posts)Trump certainly deserves to lose. What poetic justice than that to be at the hands of women, Latinos, Muslims and anyone else he has attacked and marginalized.
Awsi Dooger
(14,565 posts)Women were 53% of the electorate in 2012. That sounds great but it's been as high as 54%. I'm hoping for 54% this time.
The problem is midterms, when women drop to 51% primarily because single females don't show up. It's all the difference in how each party fares.
TheBlackAdder
(28,193 posts).
45% of the women were against the ERA, and were mobilized by Phyllis Schlafly, which reinforced the early 1980 Moral Majority wave that helped to bring in Ronald Reagan, and the New Republicans into power.
While this trend carried through to the 2012 election, I get the feeling that there will be a lot of closet evangelicals and fundamentalists who will secretly vote for HRC, when they go into the booths, while telling their families they've voted for Trump.
This might be that election, which breaks the patriarchal hold on society.
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NoGoodNamesLeft
(2,056 posts)lol
Cha
(297,211 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Andy823
(11,495 posts)Are going to be "republican" women who can't stand this guy, even if he is the republican nominee. A lot of republicans, mostly women, are going to vote for Hillary. They won't be telling anyone about it, but they will vote for her. That's one reason I think the polls are way off.