All campaigns want to know the way to the heart of the crucial female voter. … Women — a group that makes up 52 percent of the voting-age population — are catered to like a niche group. Why don’t men, specifically white men, get this treatment? Where are the candidates […] Read more »
Trump’s Gender Gap Could Be a Gender Canyon
For Donald Trump there is some very basic, very real math between him and the White House. Women generally make up more than half of the U.S. presidential electorate and polls show they don’t really seem to like the Republican frontrunner. CONT. Dante Chinni, NBC News Read more »
Concern in G.O.P. Over Donald Trump’s Weakness Among Women
… As Hillary Clinton turns her attention to a general election campaign, Mr. Trump’s nasty skirmish with Mr. Cruz, including his warning to “spill the beans” about Mrs. Cruz, without offering specifics, and his re-posting of a message that mocked her looks, have played into a crucial Democratic strategy to […] Read more »
How Trump vs. Clinton would reshape the electoral map
A prospective general election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton could significantly alter what states are in play this fall and heighten more than in any recent election the racial, class and gender divisions within the national electorate. After successive campaigns in which President Obama expanded the Democrats’ electoral map […] Read more »
As Hillary Clinton Sweeps States, One Group Resists: White Men
White men narrowly backed Hillary Clinton in her 2008 race for president, but they are resisting her candidacy this time around in major battleground states, rattling some Democrats about her general-election strategy. … “Her most serious relationship problem is with white men, on a policy issue front but also stylistically, […] Read more »
U.S. ready for a female president — but electing one isn’t a top priority, CNN/ORC poll finds
With the Democratic Party poised to nominate the first major-party female candidate for president, a new CNN/ORC Poll finds that 80% of American voters feel the country is ready to put a woman in the Oval Office. But far fewer say it’s important to them that the nation do so […] Read more »