Close elections

November 04, 2018, 09:39 AM

sdy

Close elections

Many of our elections get very close, with winning and losing separated by a small margin.

While there are many reasons for this, one is the measurable difference between how men and women vote.

For decades the U.S. population has been 49% male and 51% female. So with all other factors being even, it would be expected to have slightly more female voters than male voters.

A look at presidential elections:

For the 2016 presidential election the split between parties was

The numbers don’t add to 100% because there were other parties on the ballot

November 04, 2018, 09:51 AM

2BobTanner

Tribal voting patterns are important to Dems, that's why they stress it so much

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DJT-45/47 MAGA !!!!!

“Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.”

"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." — Mark Twain

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” — H. L. Mencken

November 04, 2018, 10:09 AM

Skins2881

quote:
Originally posted by 2BobTanner:
Tribal voting patterns are important to Dems, that's why they stress it so much

The idea that if you have a vagina then you need to vote for the candidate with a vagina is the stupidest thing on the planet. I loved when I hear some idiot tell me they were voting for Hiliarly because it'd be cool to have the first woman POTUS. How'd that first (sort of) Black President work out for you? Enjoying your new three times as expensive health insurance that covers half as much stuff with ungodly deductibles? How do you like fearing going to the Dr. because it means you won't be able to take a vacation this year or buy your child a new saxophone for band class?

Voting for someone based on physical characteristics is both wrong and really, really stupid. Thank goodness a few saw through the game and voted for their country in 2016 instead of a feel good vote for a female POTUS.

November 04, 2018, 11:01 AM

chellim1

quote:
Originally posted by sdy:
Many of our elections get very close, with winning and losing separated by a small margin.

While there are many reasons for this, one is the measurable difference between how men and women vote.

For decades the U.S. population has been 49% male and 51% female. So with all other factors being even, it would be expected to have slightly more female voters than male voters.

A look at presidential elections:

Pathetic. Really.
We are never going to repeal the 19th amendment and go back to the day when men made the decisions....

However, any amount of participation less than our share of the population (49% male) and we are simply voluntarily surrendering to the feminization of the culture, and socialism which women support far more than do men.

At least the trend, since 2004, is improving.

"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible."
-- Justice Janice Rogers Brown

"The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth."
-rduckwor

November 04, 2018, 11:11 AM

old rugged cross

Side note and I could be completely wrong. Would stand to reason with more women providing a good chunk of family income. They would seemingly be less likely to want to support those who could care less about providing for themselves and want legitimate wager earners to support them. Should be a move in the right direction I would think.