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Showing Original Post only (View all)Pew Report: Majority of white women (53%) voted for Trump in 2020, up 6% from 2016 [View all]
Last edited Fri Jul 2, 2021, 08:50 AM - Edit history (1)
This is a larger percentage than Trump's support from white men (50%).
Seriously? What's up with that?
Women (especially white women) swung toward Trump
The idea that a majority of white women voted for Trump quickly became one of the 2016 election's most-cited statistics, as many Hillary Clinton supporters particularly women were outraged to see other women support Trump.
While that statistic was repeated over and over, Pew's data ultimately said this wasn't true they found that in 2016, white women were split 47% to 45%, slightly in Trump's favor but not a majority.
This year, however, it appears that Trump did win a majority of white women. Pew found that 53% of white women chose Trump this year, up by 6 points from 2016.
This support contributed to an overall shift in women's numbers while Clinton won women of all races by 15 points in 2016, Biden won them by 11 points in 2020. Combined with men's shifts described above, it shrank 2016's historic gender gap.
Notably, the swing in white women's margin (5 points altogether) was significantly smaller than white men's swing toward Biden (13 points altogether).
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/30/1011781661/we-just-got-our-clearest-picture-yet-of-how-biden-won-in-2020?utm_campaign=politics&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews
The idea that a majority of white women voted for Trump quickly became one of the 2016 election's most-cited statistics, as many Hillary Clinton supporters particularly women were outraged to see other women support Trump.
While that statistic was repeated over and over, Pew's data ultimately said this wasn't true they found that in 2016, white women were split 47% to 45%, slightly in Trump's favor but not a majority.
This year, however, it appears that Trump did win a majority of white women. Pew found that 53% of white women chose Trump this year, up by 6 points from 2016.
This support contributed to an overall shift in women's numbers while Clinton won women of all races by 15 points in 2016, Biden won them by 11 points in 2020. Combined with men's shifts described above, it shrank 2016's historic gender gap.
Notably, the swing in white women's margin (5 points altogether) was significantly smaller than white men's swing toward Biden (13 points altogether).
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/30/1011781661/we-just-got-our-clearest-picture-yet-of-how-biden-won-in-2020?utm_campaign=politics&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews
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Pew Report: Majority of white women (53%) voted for Trump in 2020, up 6% from 2016 [View all]
StarfishSaver
Jul 2021
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It has to be because Biden would not have won in other parts without increase in White women support
JI7
Jul 2021
#15
He also gained support among Latina women in border states. There's no accounting for it.
Scrivener7
Jul 2021
#2
Women like that surely voted for him in 2016, too. So who/what accounts for the 6% swing?
StarfishSaver
Jul 2021
#9
I think that they were very good at data-mining every Dumbfuckistan Murika shithole
maxrandb
Jul 2021
#11
The turnout for this election was massively higher than any other election. 13% more people
Scrivener7
Jul 2021
#14
White women are both a tool and a weapon in the system of white supremacy; as such,
WhiskeyGrinder
Jul 2021
#13
I wouldn't think that, actually. White women voters have broken for the Democratic presidential
WhiskeyGrinder
Jul 2021
#17
The Pew Report - more accurate than CNN's exit polling - shows only 5% of Black female Trump voters
StarfishSaver
Jul 2021
#42
And, sadly, I still know a few women who "vote the same as their husbands"...
NurseJackie
Jul 2021
#45