In the last presidential election the gender gap was something like 20%. Eisenhower carried both men and women, something that more recent candidates have had trouble doing.
Moreover, I'm more than a bit skeptical about this "gender gap" business. Pollsters get the 1948 election results wrong, and then four years later they "discover" a "gender gap" that wasn't present before in their (clearly flawed) data? How do we know it wasn't there all along?
Pollsters didn't ask about veteran status, so we don't have hard numbers for that. My understanding was that veterans turned out for Ike. Gallup, though, tells us that Stevenson actually carried the under 30 vote in 1952.
I’m not busy, for one thing, I don’t write narratives to paint pictures.
Not exactly sure what you mean. It looks to me like you write plenty of narratives and paint plenty of pictures. Fortunately, the rest of the country doesn't follow you wherever it is that you're going.
More irrelevant nothings.
The only breakthrough, is that my original question was finally answered, you made up your claims about veterans.
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*””To some extent. But support for Eisenhower was as much personal as ideological. Veterans who’d served under Eisenhower backed him even if they were Democrats.””*
What source are you using for that description?
Eisenhower’s gender gap in that election was pretty huge, with him winning females by a much larger margin than males.
22 posted on 5/21/2014 2:38:42 PM by ansel12