Posted on 03/29/2016 5:11:53 PM PDT by John W
In this week’s politics Slack chat, we talk Donald Trump, sexism and the general election.
micah (Micah Cohen, politics editor): Greetings, all! With no debate or election this week, let’s consider a longer-term problem: Trump and women. The Internet spent the past week picking over a startling fact: Women (and I’m talking Republican, Democratic, unaffiliated, etc.) disproportionately don’t like Trump. We’ll get to why in a moment, along with what it means electorally, but first question: The data has shown for a while that Trump has less support among women than among men — why all of a sudden the media interest?
harry (Harry Enten, senior political writer): I think it’s a few things. First, because there are no elections or debates this week, the media is looking for new ground to cover. And with Trump ahead in the delegate count, the pivot to the general election is obvious. Second, I think the whole Heidi Cruz picture thing really put the issue at the forefront. Even Newt Gingrich and Ann Coulter are having a tough time defending Trump on this.
natesilver (Nate Silver, editor in chief): One answer is that the media is mostly dudes. But this is part of a broader issue also, which is that the media has only just now started to write how terrible a general election candidate Trump might be. Trump’s favorables among the general electorate might have gotten a bit worse, but they’ve been epically terrible since he launched his bid (actually, since before he launched it). Women are a big part of that, of course.
I mean, it literally took nine months for the conventional wisdom to recognize that someone could be astoundingly popular with a plurality of the electorate and extremely unpopular with a majority of it.
(Excerpt) Read more at fivethirtyeight.com ...
Nate Silver: consistently wrong about Trump. Another election year casualty.
This time Trump has REALLY crossed the line, and I mean it this time!
It’s all over for him now!
I’m calling B.S.
I am a woman and I don’t know any women against Trump and I live I the deep South where women are still ladies.
But this is part of the broad issue.
Yes. Yes it is.
Another reporter trying to push an agenda. Wishful thinking substitutes for reporting facts.
Throwing underwear at the wall, seeing if it sticks . . .
What is Nate Silver’s track record on election politics?
The women in my family are all for Trump.
They really do find Cruz odious.
This is all the MSM/establishment's doing... and they would be doing this no matter who the GOP's frontrunner happens to be.
The only state where Trump got a majority was Massachusetts.
He aggregates polls from a bunch of various sources which all conveniently give the same outcomes (nope, no election fraud going on here!), and is consequently hailed as a political genius by the establishment.
His website is a pretty useful barometer for determining who the establishment wants to promote and who they want to tear down, though.
This is it! Trump’s poll numbers will tank now, I tell ya!
Nothing more than media echo chamber.
Is he typically right or wrong about winners and losers?
Well, there ya go.
My adult children are only interested in Trump.
My voting age grandchildren are all in for Trump!
He used math models 4 years ago to some success. It all fell apart when trying to analyze the Trump phenonemeon.
I call bull shit.
I’m in California and know a good number of democrat women, who support Trump....for....some....weird....reason...
Anyway...
I call bull shit.
I’m in California and know a good number of democrat women, who support Trump....for....some....weird....reason...
Anyway...
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