Women Will Fuel a Blue Wave

[applegrove]

https://politicalwire.com/2018/06/07/women-will-fuel-a-blue-wave/

"SNIP.........


Dan Balz: “In election after election, whether primary contests or special elections, women have provided energy at the ballot box and, increasingly, the leadership as candidates for the Democrats. That was in evidence again Tuesday, another day of validation that the dynamics of American politics have shifted under this president. If Democrats are to win the House in November, they must hope that is maintained through Election Day, although there have been no signs that this energy is abating.”

First Read: “Check out these numbers: In the merged NBC/WSJ polling of 2017, white women with college degrees preferred a Dem-controlled Congress by 17 points (55% to 38%). In the merged NBC/WSJ polling from January to April, it was 26 points (60% to 34%). And in this latest poll, the margin is now 30 points (60% to 30%).”

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Men are responsible for this fucking mess, women are our only hope.

WOC especially.

Women of other religions as well.

[applegrove]

2. That is a broad brush. Many white men have fought against Trump alongside us. And african

american men have fought back against Trump's continued attacks on them with building empathy and eloquence, putting Trump to shame better than anyone. African american women are our backbone. Everyone is stepping up. Now it is white women. Great. But the person I remember most from a town hall asking about GOP health care plans was a white man. We need everyone.

[radius777]

4. uh, white women voted for Trump

53% Trump, 42% Hillary, 5% Johnson/Stein/other.

Men of color voted strongly for Hillary, perhaps not as strong as for Obama, but strong nonetheless.

White men of course, are the strongest Trump/right wing demographic, but white women aren't that far behind.

Younger whites, both men and women, there is hope for, who tend to lean liberal.

The rise of Trumpism really isn't about gender or class, but about race and immigration.

As Ta-Nehisi Coates has written extensively on, the story of Trump's election is the story of white America's anger about PoC and immigrants, which BHO represented, a new America whites reject:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/the-first-white-president-ta-nehisi-coates/537909/
An analysis of exit polls conducted during the presidential primaries estimated the median household income of Trump supporters to be about $72,000. But even this lower number is almost double the median household income of African Americans, and $15,000 above the American median. Trump’s white support was not determined by income. According to Edison Research, Trump won whites making less than $50,000 by 20 points, whites making $50,000 to $99,999 by 28 points, and whites making $100,000 or more by 14 points. This shows that Trump assembled a broad white coalition that ran the gamut from Joe the Dishwasher to Joe the Plumber to Joe the Banker. So when white pundits cast the elevation of Trump as the handiwork of an inscrutable white working class, they are being too modest, declining to claim credit for their own economic class. Trump’s dominance among whites across class lines is of a piece with his larger dominance across nearly every white demographic. Trump won white women (+9) and white men (+31). He won white people with college degrees (+3) and white people without them (+37). He won whites ages 18–29 (+4), 30–44 (+17), 45–64 (+28), and 65 and older (+19). Trump won whites in midwestern Illinois (+11), whites in mid-Atlantic New Jersey (+12), and whites in the Sun Belt’s New Mexico (+5). In no state that Edison polled did Trump’s white support dip below 40 percent. Hillary Clinton’s did, in states as disparate as Florida, Utah, Indiana, and Kentucky. From the beer track to the wine track, from soccer moms to nascar dads, Trump’s performance among whites was dominant. According to Mother Jones, based on preelection polling data, if you tallied the popular vote of only white America to derive 2016 electoral votes, Trump would have defeated Clinton 389 to 81, with the remaining 68 votes either a toss-up or unknown.

[ehrnst]

9. They also voted for McCain and Romney, in higher percentages than for DT.

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So the numbers that went Democratic this year were an improvement.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/whats-up-with-white-women-they-voted-for-romney-too

DT is also losing support among the women who voted for him - only 37% support his job performance.

https://medium.com/the-lily/even-though-most-white-women-voted-for-trump-hes-losing-their-approval-b3c8be0b8a5a

[Me.]

6. I Quite Agree With You

[muntrv]

5. GOTV my friends.

[3catchaos]

7. Yes. That's our only hope.

[ehrnst]

8. They are the ones reliably rolling up their sleeves and organizing. (nt)