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pnwmom

(108,977 posts)
Sat Jan 21, 2017, 07:11 PM Jan 2017

Greta just said Trump won among WOMEN. Hillary ACTUALLY won by 14%.

Apparently Greta thinks white women are the only women who count.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/women-still-dont-like-trump/

Hillary Clinton won among women by about 14 percentage points, according to exit polls.1 The only candidate since 1964 to win the women’s vote by a larger margin was Bill Clinton, who won women’s votes by about 20 points on the way to his landslide re-election in 1996. Bill Clinton, however, also won (barely) among men. Hillary Clinton lost men’s votes by 12.5 percentage points, the worst Democratic loss among men since 1988.

While it’s not unusual for men and women to vote very differently, 2016 was in a class by itself. Between 1980, when Democrats first began to enjoy a comparative advantage among women, and 2012, the average gender gap2 in presidential elections was 15 percentage points. In 2016, the gender gap was 26.5 percentage points. That’s larger than it’s been in any year since at least 1952, and it blows away the old record of 20 percentage points in 1996.

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pnwmom

(108,977 posts)
9. The damage was done. But I didn't hear her correct her overall statement,
Sat Jan 21, 2017, 07:48 PM
Jan 2017

just with regard to women of color.

And her whole point was wrong -- that the Women Marchers today aren't representative of most women, because most women went for DT.

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