New Poll Shows Democrats' Gender Gap Advantage Is Broad and Deep
By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.
Ah the gender gap! It has waxed and waned in the 30-some years since its discovery, but remained pretty solidly in the Democratic camp since it was first noticed by pollsters that women voters were more liberal than their male counterparts. Today the Gallup polling organization reaffirms that fact with a new poll showing:
A new Gallup analysis of almost 150,000 interviews conducted from January through May of this year sheds new light on the substantial gender gap that exists in American politics today. Not only are women significantly more likely than men to identify as Democrats, and less likely to identify as independents, but—with only slight variation—this gap is evident across all ages, from 18 to 85, and within all major racial, ethnic, and marital-status segments of society.
Women have traditionally voted anywhere from 10-20 percent more Democratic than men, but there's good reason for that. Women are 10-20 percent or so more likely to depend on government benefits than men. Democrats are much bigger supporters of benefits for poor Americans.
Former President George W. Bush did win the support of white married women in both of his elections. Remember the so-called Security Moms? That's because married white women have the highest incomes among all female voters.
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why women love big government
It shouldn't come as a surprise that the dems get the female vote; women love big government because, historically (at least in my lifetime), big government has taken from men and given to women (affirmative action, anti-male custody laws and divorce laws, and a legal reconceptualization of sexual harassment and sexual assault that is now so broad it is farcical). Frankly, I wish bonnie erbe would jump in front of a transit bus; sadly, we'll never be that lucky but this pig is nothing more than a gender politicking, male-baiting twit.
by the way, I hope Erin Andrews suffers for the rest of her life; like most "females" in our culture, she trades on her sexuality to get ahead in the workplace and, lo and behold, discovers to her chagrin that someone else can commodify her just as well as she can commodify herself.
I have to agree with Marc Rudov: women are capitalists in the workplace and socialists in their private lives (that means they take from their spouses and give to themselves) - at least women in our culture are precisely that.
for poor people ...right
i dont know who those 150,000 people were but no one called me and i will ssay this . i am much more concerened about futting food on MY table and am very tired of cutting back to put it on other peoples table. share if you can yes, but dont force me to do it when i cant. and i am neither dem or rep. i think they all suck . we need to get rid of the whole thing and put real people in there, people who actually know how to do a budget(soccer moms), people who live with in there means (grandmothers where the best), people who can cook for less than 5000 dollars a mean (rachel rae) i mean come one. those people up there dont even know what a job is.
dems owe all thinking women an apology
dems support iislamm, supporting slavery of women, and all the rape, honor killing, and violence which comes with it.
dems deny a women the right to defend herself against violence, by chipping away at gun rights.
Hopey baloney aside, these new dems are against women. Americans are waking up to that
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