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mysteryowl

(7,362 posts)
Sun Sep 8, 2019, 04:55 PM Sep 2019

Female voters in the Midwest could be decisive in 2020

Women will again be a critical factor in Michigan and in other Midwest battlegrounds in 2020. Donald Trump won Michigan by 10,704 votes — the smallest winning margin in the state’s presidential election history. The state — along with Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota — will be ground zero in his re-election campaign.

Michigan women are souring on Trump. A recent statewide poll found that 65% of them will vote for someone else or would consider it.


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MUSKEGON, MICH. – Rillastine Wilkins has worked for decades to help women become a powerful political force in this community on Lake Michigan’s eastern shore.

Those efforts paid off in 2018, when Muskegon County voters helped elect a female governor, secretary of state, attorney general and U.S. senator. The results put Wilkins and other women here on the leading edge of a shift that is reshaping politics across the Midwest and nationally: Female voters were pivotal last year and are top targets of both parties in the 2020 presidential race.


http://www.startribune.com/female-voters-particularly-in-the-midwest-will-be-pivotal-in-2020/527931982/
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Female voters in the Midwest could be decisive in 2020 (Original Post) mysteryowl Sep 2019 OP
No one is going to be decisive unless they protect voting Perseus Sep 2019 #1
No one is going to "protect voting" before 11/2020 maxsolomon Sep 2019 #2
Maybe I didn't express myself well Perseus Sep 2019 #3
 

Perseus

(4,341 posts)
1. No one is going to be decisive unless they protect voting
Sun Sep 8, 2019, 06:13 PM
Sep 2019

When votes can be switch in voting machines then no one but the cheaters will decide the outcome.

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maxsolomon

(33,244 posts)
2. No one is going to "protect voting" before 11/2020
Sun Sep 8, 2019, 07:29 PM
Sep 2019

Unless you're aware of some recent change of heart from GOP governors and state legislatures?

Women voters are always decisive.

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Perseus

(4,341 posts)
3. Maybe I didn't express myself well
Sun Sep 8, 2019, 11:04 PM
Sep 2019

There could be a million women voting for Democrats, but if the republican cheating machine throws those votes in their favour, instead of the intended target which was a democrat, then tons of women can show up to vote for Democrats but cheating will bring another result in favour of republicans.

I know GOP will not do anything to protect the vote, that is why I said what I said.

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