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Showing Original Post only (View all)No, White Women Didn't Vote for Trump [View all]
https://politicalwire.com/2020/12/01/no-white-women-didnt-vote-for-trump/I've read this bs several times recently, so am happy for this clarification.
No, White Women Didnt Vote for Trump
December 1, 2020 at 11:00 am EST By Taegan Goddard
Jonathan Chait: White women voted for Trump. Or so you have probably heard. In the immediate aftermath of Donald Trumps 2016 victory, the finding from early exit polls that 53 percent of white women voted for Trump formed the basis for a million social-media posts, op-eds, and rally placards. That this fact is not true is not even close to the biggest problem with its ubiquitous place in progressive social-justice discourse.
The 53 percent figure turned out to be erroneous, and corrected analyses eventually pegged Trumps share of the white female electorate closer to 47 percent. Nonetheless, the impulse that propelled so many writers to blame white women for electing Trump proved strong enough to survive even after the factual basis was undercut. Indeed, left-wing opinion writers continued churning out polemics based on the erroneous 53 percent figure for years.
The 53 percent figure turned out to be erroneous, and corrected analyses eventually pegged Trumps share of the white female electorate closer to 47 percent. Nonetheless, the impulse that propelled so many writers to blame white women for electing Trump proved strong enough to survive even after the factual basis was undercut. Indeed, left-wing opinion writers continued churning out polemics based on the erroneous 53 percent figure for years.
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What was the percentage of white men that voted for the vile misogynist racist disturbs me, or the
LizBeth
Dec 2020
#4
62% of white male voters voted for Trump, per Pew Research, which also produced the 47% figure for
spooky3
Dec 2020
#6
I was just told sexism is not a man issue, that women are responsible too. So now we are blamed for
LizBeth
Dec 2020
#2
Right on sister. The Eve story is so indicative of the weak and cowardly triumphing as success. Lol
LizBeth
Dec 2020
#27
I'm bookmarking this because I would bet my house that this blame of white women will
Squinch
Dec 2020
#14
White Women ARE called out and Shamed for it. ANd White Women who voted for Hillary said they were
JI7
Dec 2020
#44
Oh thank god, I was worried white women might have to examine their role in the U.S.'s
WhiskeyGrinder
Dec 2020
#22
In 2016 he won white women 47% to 45% for Clinton. We'll have to wait for 2020
mathematic
Dec 2020
#26