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In reply to the discussion: Black women came through for DEMS in VA!! [View all]frazzled
(18,402 posts)-- Women made the difference. White women with college degrees -- a group that split evenly in the 2013 Virginia governors election favored Northam by 16 points over Gillespie in preliminary exit polling, 58 percent to 42 percent. Northams margin is more than twice as wide as the margin Hillary Clinton won those voters by last year, 50 percent to 44 percent.
Married women voted for Northam by 10 points according to preliminary exit polls, 54 percent to 44 percent. In the 2016 presidential election, Trump eked out a one-point lead with this group, 48 percent to 47 percent. Married women consisted of 30 percent of Virginia voters this year, about the same share as in 2016 and 2014.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2017/11/08/daily-202-anti-trump-backlash-fuels-a-democratic-sweep-in-virginia-and-elections-across-the-country/5a023fd230fb0468e76541b3/?utm_term=.a54eb28bc5c8&wpisrc=nl_daily202&wpmm=1
And, of course, African American women. Lets keep it up, girls.