GOP women warn of eroding support among female voters amid a ‘gender chasm’

A growing number of Republican women are sounding the alarm about continuing loss of support for President Trump and the GOP among female voters ahead of the November election, warning that the party is in danger of permanently alienating women if it doesn’t change course. Trump’s flailing response to the […] Read more »

If you think real men don’t wear masks, you’re more likely to get coronavirus

… Using weekly survey data from a large poll fielded between March and June, my recently published research shows that those with more-sexist attitudes are less concerned about covid-19, less likely to take precautions such as washing their hands and wearing masks, less likely to support state and local policies […] Read more »

4 poll numbers that could spell doom for Trump and the GOP

We’re less than four months from the 2020 election, and President Trump is in a bad way. A slew of national polls show him losing to Joe Biden by an average of around nine points; swing-state polls almost universally show Biden leading; and worry is growing on the right not […] Read more »

A Century After Women Gained the Right To Vote, Majority of Americans See Work To Do on Gender Equality

A hundred years after the 19th Amendment was ratified, about half of Americans say granting women the right to vote has been the most important milestone in advancing the position of women in the country. Still, a majority of U.S. adults say the country hasn’t gone far enough when it […] Read more »

About that running mate: 72% of Democrats say it’s ‘important’ Biden pick woman of color

Seven of 10 Democrats in the new USA TODAY/Suffolk Poll say it is important to them that presumptive nominee Joe Biden picks a woman of color as his running mate on the Democratic presidential ticket this fall. A third of Democrats, among both Black and white Americans, call it “very […] Read more »

Working-class white women are turning on Trump

President Trump’s storied grip on the white working class is weakening among women, threatening both his reelection prospects and his party’s efforts to improve its standing with female voters. While working-class men remain among Trump’s most loyal backers, defections among their wives, sisters and daughters are a big part of […] Read more »