The gender vote

[differenceblog]

The National Election Studies (NES) are surveys given to voters pre- and post-elections. Since 1948, the NES respondent pool has consistently had more women than men (table). According to political scientist Susan Carroll (2004), women voted at lower rates than men from 1920-1980, but since the 1980's, women have increasingly been voting more

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[charlycrash]

I think anything Ann Coulter says can be safely ignored. That, or mentally replaced with "OMG I R A PATHOLOGICAL ATTENTION WHORE".

[differenceblog]

*chuckles* I can wholeheartedly agree with that, too. Unfortunately, I am also a pathological attention whore. More unfortunately, the Democrats appear to buy into her philosophy on this point, and claim unmarried women as a big section of their guaranteed voting base.

[charlycrash]

Ah, we're all a little pathologically attention whoreish. Some just take it further than others.

What's so bad about the Democrats trying to get women's votes, though? Although most anti-feminists would likely argue otherwise, women's rights don't really hurt anybody.

Well. Don't hurt anyone in any real way, anyway (moving from 90% male privilege to 50% is not hurting men, kthx).

[differenceblog]

What's so bad about the Democrats trying to get women's votes, though?
I think it's more an issue of alienation. They're trying so hard to court "women's" votes or "youth" votes or "Hispanic" votes that I think they end up alienating almost everyone at one point or another.