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riversedge

(70,186 posts)
Mon Oct 24, 2016, 07:09 PM Oct 2016

Hillary Clinton Closes Gap With Male Voters

Source: abc




Hillary Clinton Closes Gap With Male Voters

By Adam Kelsey

Oct 24, 2016, 3:06 PM ET




PHOTO: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign event at The Quad, Saint Augustines University,Oct. 23, 2016, in Raleigh, North Carolina.Mary Altaffer/AP Photo
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...............Male respondents reported support for the former secretary of state at 44 percent to Trump’s 41 percent — a major swing for the group, which had backed him throughout the campaign.

In the ABC News poll — which showed Clinton leading overall among likely voters nationwide, 50 to 38 percent — she was bolstered by a strong showing with college-educated women, a group that preferred Republican Mitt Romney in 2012, widening her lead with female voters overall. The poll's margin of error is 3.5 percentage points.

The Clinton campaign’s making up what was once a large deficit with male voters is perhaps the starkest change from midsummer polls, in which Trump was more competitive. In late July, after the Republican National Convention — the peak of Trump’s popularity in the polls — he held a double-digit advantage with registered male voters in a poll conducted by CNN/ORC.



......................................College-educated white women selected the eventual winner of the popular vote in every presidential election from 1980 to 2008, but the margin has never been as large as polls indicate this year. Even in President Ronald Reagan’s 18-point landslide victory over Democrat Walter Mondale in 1984, the gap among college-educated white women was less than 20 points.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hillary-clinton-closes-gap-male-voters/story?id=43018759



The male vote is delicious to see.. Slow, steady and sure FORWARD!!
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Hillary Clinton Closes Gap With Male Voters (Original Post) riversedge Oct 2016 OP
I am enjoying the HELL out of this bravenak Oct 2016 #1
The great blue wave is building. Texas is next! Coyotl Oct 2016 #2
The big blue wave... DemInND Oct 2016 #8
She is appealing to people's sanity bucolic_frolic Oct 2016 #3
Not all men are stupid awoke_in_2003 Oct 2016 #4
Not all men! IronLionZion Oct 2016 #5
?? tymorial Oct 2016 #7
Sorry awoke_in_2003 Oct 2016 #9
I know buddy IronLionZion Oct 2016 #10
This message was self-deleted by its author meow2u3 Oct 2016 #12
It is ridiculous to say that half of humanity isn't stupid IronLionZion Oct 2016 #13
There are dozens of us! DOZENS! Odin2005 Oct 2016 #15
Hate to predict, but this is a signal of a huge landslide JCMach1 Oct 2016 #6
We need a huge landslide all the way down the ticket, across America IronLionZion Oct 2016 #11
I also read somewhere that Hillary was doing better blue-wave Oct 2016 #14
Seems odd that she's winning men by 3 points NewJeffCT Oct 2016 #17
some of these had wives who gave them a heart to heart talk about this election... CTyankee Oct 2016 #18
 

awoke_in_2003

(34,582 posts)
9. Sorry
Mon Oct 24, 2016, 09:11 PM
Oct 2016

My demographic, which is middle aged white straight male, seems to be solidly behind tRump. I just wanted people know that all of us don't go down that path. Some of us are capable of forming coherent thoughts.

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IronLionZion

(45,427 posts)
13. It is ridiculous to say that half of humanity isn't stupid
Mon Oct 24, 2016, 10:39 PM
Oct 2016

because it's ridiculous to say that we are.

"I'm not stupid!" is just as absurd as claiming "You're stupid!". I laugh at that type of thinking.

Anyone who thinks I'm stupid is not someone I want in my life. And I don't care what anyone thinks of me.

I refuse to be associated with Trump or his supporters or let anyone speak for me about what I must believe for any reason, especially just because I have a Y chromosome.



IronLionZion

(45,427 posts)
11. We need a huge landslide all the way down the ticket, across America
Mon Oct 24, 2016, 09:20 PM
Oct 2016

President Hillary needs a congress she can work with.

blue-wave

(4,351 posts)
14. I also read somewhere that Hillary was doing better
Tue Oct 25, 2016, 03:13 AM
Oct 2016

than the numbers Reagan received in 1980. If that's close to accurate and I hope it is, this will be a blow-out election!! Closing the gap with women, men, Latinos, African Americans....who's left to vote for the tangerine? This also means the senate and YES...the house!!

"Even in President Ronald Reagan’s 18-point landslide victory over Democrat Walter Mondale in 1984, the gap among college-educated white women was less than 20 points."

NewJeffCT

(56,828 posts)
17. Seems odd that she's winning men by 3 points
Wed Oct 26, 2016, 11:26 AM
Oct 2016

but, is only up 12 points overall in the poll. Given that more women tend to vote than men, it would mean that she's winning women by only 19-20 or so points?

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