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Once again, Black women brought it home for Dems
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JustAnotherGen
(32,037 posts)We flipped two local borough seats with a Bernie supporter and Indie Leftist.
Know why? We are pulling together from the ground up - and avoiding online spats.
bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)sofa king
(10,857 posts)I wanted to give an encouraging observation like, "hey, look at that massive ten percent shift away from Trump by white males, eh?"
But, no. It's still horrifying.
TCJ70
(4,387 posts)The shift in the white vote is part of what helped push Dems over the edge. Without that things would look quite different. Granted the provided chart isn't complete since there's still about 11% unaccounted for in it...but the swing there is quite encouraging.
Takket
(21,704 posts)Great win last night but still so much work to be done
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)vote the way men do.
unc70
(6,127 posts)I knew white men voted overwhelmingly for Trump but not that whites women did, too.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)In 2004, Bush got fifty-five per cent of the white female vote, and Kerry got forty-four per centa reverse gender gap (one working in the G.O.P.s favor) of eleven points. In 2008, McCain got fifty-three per cent of the white female vote, and Obama got forty-six per centa gap of seven points.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/whats-up-with-white-women-they-voted-for-romney-too