Vox - Hostility toward women is one of the strongest predictors of Trump support

[TomCADem]

The late raise of acts of violence and increased mysogyny as we approach November 8th should not come as a surprise:

http://www.vox.com/2016/11/1/13480416/trump-supporters-sexism

The survey also asked how strongly respondents supported Clinton or Trump. The higher they were on the sexism scale, the more likely they were to support Trump and the less likely they were to support Clinton. Hostile sexism was nearly as good at predicting support for Trump as party identification was.

Sexism — and particularly anti-feminism — isn’t politically neutral. Many conservative women have come forward to say they’re horrified by Donald Trump, but sexism has been correlated with support for other Republican candidates as well. In studies of voters in 2008 and 2012, traditional beliefs about gender and hostility toward feminism were also linked to much lower support for Hillary Clinton.

“It’s the kind of sorting that people do to go into one party or the other,” said Wayne, a PhD candidate in political science at the University of Michigan. Republicans “tend to have attitudes that are more traditionalist, more old-fashioned, less likely to want the kinds of changes that feminism, for example, is pushing.”

Wayne said she couldn’t compare how sexist attitudes nationally had correlated with support for Republicans in previous elections, so she couldn’t say if Trump made the situation better or worse. But Brian Schaffner, a political scientist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, used the same survey as part of a poll in New Hampshire, and found that sexism was a much bigger factor in the 2016 election than it was in 2012:

[Rex]

1. Doesn't that work in reverse as well?

The closer we get to a hardcore Trumpster, the less likely it is to be a women? The more likely a vote by a women is not for Trump? Seems Trump has a real problem since women will turn out in record numbers to vote.

[babylonsister]

2. I know women trump supporters, so I

helpfully shared this.