News reports that deem a gender gap in polling noteworthy — with women as more Democratic and men as more Republican — are falling into a trap described by a journalistic cliché: They’re reporting when a dog bites a man.
That’s because it would be far more unusual — akin to a man biting a dog — for there not to be a gender gap in a federal statewide race. [cont.]
Kyle Kondik & Geoffrey Skelley, Sabato’s Crystal Ball