10-11-2016, 08:57 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-12-2016, 12:22 AM by Bob Butler 54.)
Just a brief report on the state of the gender gap. 538 put up an article reviewing recent gender related polls. The summary chart...
![[Image: gender.png]](http://www.polyticks.com/photo/gender.png)
538 threw up a couple of electoral maps that supposed that men only had the vote, and women only. Both maps resulted in landslide majorities... but for different candidates.
This supports a hypothesis I threw up the other day. A demagogue might be able to get places with racism. One can build a stronger majority base if one is willing to lose the minority vote. This assumes that there are more majority racists than there are minorities, which is a questionable assumption these days. A lot of Establishment Republicans are not happy that Trump is using racist tactics to strengthen his hold among white voters at the expense of losing votes that he absolutely needs to get to 270.
But there are definitely more women than there are sexist males. If one is rationally logically sound when planning racist and sexist political strategies, one might play the race card while being very careful with the women's card. Still, how often are sexists and racists rational and logical? Well, often enough if one is Establishment Republican. The rejection of Trump was rejected firmly by a lot of Establishment Republican as obviously a bad idea. Yes, rejecting one's party's nominee for president is unprecedented. However, a lot of them just couldn't see the party turn off such a big demographic.
538 threw up a couple of electoral maps that supposed that men only had the vote, and women only. Both maps resulted in landslide majorities... but for different candidates.
This supports a hypothesis I threw up the other day. A demagogue might be able to get places with racism. One can build a stronger majority base if one is willing to lose the minority vote. This assumes that there are more majority racists than there are minorities, which is a questionable assumption these days. A lot of Establishment Republicans are not happy that Trump is using racist tactics to strengthen his hold among white voters at the expense of losing votes that he absolutely needs to get to 270.
But there are definitely more women than there are sexist males. If one is rationally logically sound when planning racist and sexist political strategies, one might play the race card while being very careful with the women's card. Still, how often are sexists and racists rational and logical? Well, often enough if one is Establishment Republican. The rejection of Trump was rejected firmly by a lot of Establishment Republican as obviously a bad idea. Yes, rejecting one's party's nominee for president is unprecedented. However, a lot of them just couldn't see the party turn off such a big demographic.
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