Be wary of any pundits pontificating about how "women" voted.
White women voting patterns:
Kemp 76% (95% of black women voted for his black woman opponent)
Cruz 59% (and he's one of the most unlikeable men in politics)
De Santis 51% (I'm surprised that one is that low)
How is it being discussed? The failure of white women. The cause is, of course, race.
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In the exceptionally close Senate race in Texas between Republican Ted Cruz and Democrat Beto O'Rourke, it was white women who helped clinch the vote for Cruz. In a vote that broke along racial lines, 59% of white women elected a man who has consistently voted not only against their interests but who has done so by aligning himself closely with the anti-immigrant, racist hate mongering of Donald Trump. By comparison, 95% of Black women voted for O'Rourke."
I hate to break it to this writer, but both O'Rourke and Cruz are "white". Race had nothing to do with it. Indeed, Cruz is the one who may have a smidgen of SSA.
In the Georgia race, yes, one candidate was white and one black.
It couldn't be, however, that southern white women couldn't bring themselves to vote for a candidate who was that far left? Perhaps they're not one issue voters?
https://www.redandblack.com/athensn...cle_ebc83796-dbc1-11e8-8f48-2f855e5d45c0.html
That doesn't mean that Trump doesn't create problems for his party among educated women in suburbs in the rest of the country, however. I was at the dentist lately, and there was a news alert about him firing Sessions. It also showed a clip at him at the press conference. Virtually every woman said he was behaving like a jerk. One woman said, "If I were Melania I'd just constantly be telling him to shut his damn mouth".
He cost his party a lot of votes in suburban areas. Still, give the devil his due, this was no "blue wave" (27 seat majority). Obama lost 63 in his 2010 midterm election, and most lose 40 and up.
What mitigates it in Trump's case is that "progressive" Democrats push so many people away. They were kept well away from the microphones, and the street demonstrations stopped in the two weeks or so before the election. Good idea. Some people have short memories. I want to see how all the moderate Democrats, ex-military a lot of them, who were elected vote once Nancy Pelosi gets a hold of them.
