Donald Trump’s Support Among Republican Women Starts to Slide

[kpete]

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In a striking series of defections, high-profile Republican women are abandoning decades of party loyalty and vowing to oppose Mr. Trump, calling him emotionally unfit for the presidency and a menace to national security.

But even more powerfully, his support from regular Republican women is falling after Mr. Trump’s provocative remarks about everything from the silence of the mother of a slain Muslim soldier to how women should respond to sexual harassment in the workplace.

“For people like me, who are Republican but reasonable and still have our brains attached, it’s hard to see Trump as a reasonable, sane Republican,” said Dina Vela, a project manager in San Antonio who said she had always voted Republican and remained wary of Hillary Clinton. But to her own surprise, she has started visiting Mrs. Clinton’s campaign website and plans to vote for her.

Since the two parties held their nominating conventions, Mr. Trump’s lead over Mrs. Clinton with Republican women voters has declined by 13 percentage points, according to polls conducted by The New York Times and CBS News.

In late July, 72 percent of Republican women said they would vote for Mr. Trump, a healthy majority, but far below the level won by the past three Republican presidential nominees. In 2012, Mitt Romney won 93 percent of Republican women. In 2008, John McCain won 89 percent, and four years earlier, George W. Bush won 93 percent.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/10/us/politics/donald-trump-gop-women.html

[Wounded Bear]

1. Well, he is a bit of a misogynistic asshole...

but don't let that affect your voting choices.

(about the choosing, not about the misogynistic asshole part )

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Regarding the picture in the OP

I know men who control their wives to this degree: the husbands don't want to take the chance of their wives canceling out their vote (for someone like Trump). They make their wives vote ahead of election day on absentee ballots, review the choices, seal and mail the ballot themselves.

Unbelievable.

[HockeyMom]

3. As a Democrat, my Republican husband just assumes

that me, and all of our family, are voting for Hillary. I also just realized that Trump not only just about called for the assassination of a President, but a FEMALE President at that.

Do not think this will be lost on women whatever their Party, especially after what he has said in the past about women.