It’s typical in progressive circles to assume that abortion politics is heavily driven by gender, reflecting the left’s conviction that the legality of abortion is fundamentally a question of women’s rights and bodily autonomy. Polls, however, tend to show only very modest gender gaps in views of abortion. Women and […] Read more »
Does Anyone Actually Want Joe Biden to Be President?
In a field crowded with nearly two dozen candidates, no answer to the electability question is offered more regularly and with more conviction than “Joe Biden.” … The case that people make for Mr. Biden’s electability is not that any one group of people is particularly excited by him, but […] Read more »
The Next President Should Not Be a Man
According to pollsters and political reporters, a dispiriting dynamic has taken hold of the early stages of the Democratic presidential primary: Voters are discounting female candidates as unelectable. … Emotionally, such reticence makes sense. Hillary Clinton’s loss to a cartoon misogynist left an enduring wound. Three years later, the memory […] Read more »
The Fickle Over the Faithful
… A 2017 study by Johns Hopkins University researchers Stephen L. Morgan and Jiwon Lee, which was published in the Sociological Science journal, found that non-Hispanic white voters totaled 69.3 percent of the electorate in 2016. The percentage of that total who were working class was just 18.6 percent. Conversely, […] Read more »
Can a woman beat Trump? Some Democrats wonder if it’s worth the risk
Democratic voters say that more than anything, they want to beat President Donald Trump in 2020. But some worry that means putting their hope of electing the first woman president on hold. … Although many of these voters said they recognize that the “electability” question is often unfairly aimed at […] Read more »
May the Best Woman Win?: Education and Bias against Women in American Politics
A record number of women are competing for the presidential nomination in 2020, but gender bias stands to affect their chances of election. A new analysis from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW), May the Best Woman Win?: Education and Bias against Women in American Politics, […] Read more »