One Weird Trick to Lose the 2016 election: Alienate Women (from 538)

[bettyellen]

Interesting discussion on how women just ain't having Trump win, and why people are finally talking about it now.



"natesilver (Nate Silver, editor in chief): One answer is that the media is mostly dudes. But this is part of a broader issue also, which is that the media has only just now started to write how terrible a general election candidate Trump might be. Trump’s favorables among the general electorate might have gotten a bit worse, but they’ve been epically terrible since he launched his bid (actually, since before he launched it). Women are a big part of that, of course.

I mean, it literally took nine months for the conventional wisdom to recognize that someone could be astoundingly popular with a plurality of the electorate and extremely unpopular with a majority of it.

clare.malone (Clare Malone, senior political writer): The media interest has always been there; Megyn Kelly gets all kinds of credit for bringing up Trump’s treatment of women from the very beginning of the campaign. But there’s been a host of crazy things that he’s said throughout the election, about a host of other groups and the misogyny thing has basically been this baseline element of Trump; it’s the foundation to his looming political tower built by big hands and no loans. Just look at the news that broke today: Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was charged with battery against former Breitbart News Network reporter Michelle Fields."





more here...

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/donald-trump-sexism-women-2016-election/

[daleanime]

1. Failure to embrace a neocon.....

equals "Alienate Woman".

[bettyellen]

2. this is about Trump, so maybe read it? Or do you wish him to "bring on the revolution" too?

[geek tragedy]

4. did you mean to defend Donald Trump? Because this article is about how his misogyny

his hurting his chances by alienating women voters.

[JustAnotherGen]

3. A link within the article

Past few elections up to the age of 75 - more women have voted than men.

It's in a clare.malone quote at the original article you posted:

clare.malone: More women vote than men, that’s for sure. According to our friends over at Rutgers Center for American Women and Politics, American women have cast between 4 and 7 million more votes than men in the last couple of presidential elections.

Direct PDF - straight up numbers.
http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/resources/genderdiff.pdf

[bettyellen]

5. Yep, we are more important than anyone wants to admit- even our fellow Dems.

[bettyellen]

6. shameless self kick for women voters!

[bettyellen]

7. kick. why is Du so unsupportive of women voters these days? Interesting.

[bettyellen]

8. Are we really this unsupportive of women voters here?

Amazing! Why is that?