Posted on 06/06/2016 10:02:55 AM PDT by Signalman
The gender gap, a reality of American politics since the Roe v. Wade decision almost 50 years ago, is defining the 2016 elections. But it is a different sort of gender gap — it originates with male voters, not women.
According to Fox News polls, Hillary Clinton is running 11 points ahead among women, down from Barack Obama’s 16-point finish in 2012. But Donald Trump is running 22 points ahead among men, way up from Mitt Romney’s 7-point final margin in 2012.
This year’s gender gap is different from all previous gaps in that it has its origin in male, rather than female, dissent from the conventional wisdom. The feminist staples of abortion, reproductive rights and equal pay continue to motivate female voters. But men are voting differently than women because of their dissatisfaction with job and wage competition from illegal immigrants, the threat of refugee-driven terrorism, the loss of manufacturing jobs and the unending wage stagnation.
Men are in revolt.
The Trump candidacy is founded in this male gender gap. Women are dissenting from the national vote by their usual amount. But it is men who are really voting differently this year.
On a cultural level, male voters are alienated by political correctness and the focus on the rights of everybody but male Americans. Their continued and growing support for Trump echoes this male consensus. By contrast, women’s gender gap issues are somewhat less significant than they once were. While more Americans now describe themselves as pro-choice than pro-life, the underlying data suggest a lack of extreme views on the issue. Twenty-nine percent, according to Gallup in May, favor legalizing abortion “in all circumstances,” while 19 percent support banning it all the time. The majority, 51 percent, want it to be legal in only certain circumstances.
Meanwhile, dissatisfaction with wage stagnation, income inequality, the loss of manufacturing jobs and the large amount of illegal immigration has spiraled, catalyzing Trump’s surprising march to the nomination. As with the crime issue in the ’60s and ’70s, the mainstream media insist on painting the white male fear of competition from illegal immigrants as racist, denying its legitimacy. But the Center for Immigration Studies reports that since 2000, “All of the net gain in the number of working age people (16-65) holding a job has gone to immigrants — legal and illegal.” The center reports Census data show that while 114.7 million native-born Americans had full-time jobs in the first quarter of 2014, that is actually fewer than the 114.8 million who had them in the first quarter of 2000. By contrast, the number of foreign-born workers, which includes legal, illegal and naturalized, having full-time employment has risen by 5.7 million since 2000. The political fallout from these statistics is enormous. Combined with the wage stagnation of workers of all races, it has created a combustible political combination that is exploding this year.
But the media insist on calling these concerns about immigration and trade racial or jingoistic, denying the reality that they are the central concerns of the white men who are animating the Trump triumph.
Politically, this male gender gap throws down a gauntlet to Clinton as she tries to ride female discontent — and their gender gap — into the White House. The more she emphasizes the need for special pleading for women, the more she antagonizes male voters.
After all, polls indicate that while she is running 5 points behind Obama among women in 2012, she is running 15 points back among men now. Her problem is not to attract female voters but to stop hemorrhaging male voters. But neither Clinton nor her advisers understand or are willing to accept this reality. So they keep trying to enhance her standing among women, making things worse and worse among men.
I disagree. I think women will carry Trump....along with the men.
https://twitter.com/Thomas1774Paine/status/739527928262889472
guriel and san jose police chief worked together
Toesucker is confused.
Mr. Trump has it because he is truthful and honest,
and a political world of lies.
Has not the ENTIRE GOP lied to the voters about
ObamaCARE and then delivered ObamaTRADE, too?
BLUF: Most men I talk to are sick and tired of being force fed a line of BS from Washington that WE must accept this and we must accept that ALL things that are completely contrary to THE American Way of Life that we were brought up to believe — The America we grew up in was vastly FAR SUPERIOR to the BS that Oblahblah has been forcing us to accept — Make America Great Again!!!
As far as the military is concerned, if the policy that is coming out of the White House or Congress doesn’t make the military a more fierce and feared fighting force, it is BS, drop it and restore war fighters to positions of power and authority in the Pentagon. Let’s put the ‘FIGHT’ back in to our FIGHTING FORCES and leave all the BS social justice warrior BS for the peace corps.
Out!
Cross-link:
“Racist Mexican Americans with influential Government jobs like San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, and Judge Gonzalo Curiel, attacking law abiding citizens for political reasons”
http://tinkertowntiger.blogspot.com/2016/06/racist-mexican-americans-with-influence.html
While this analysis comes from Dick Morris, who is usually wrong, I think this analysis has merit. Men who aren’t cucks have every incentive to vote for the pro-male candidate. A significant number of women are stupid enough to vote for Hitlery because she’s a woman (even though Trump is the pro-female candidate), and those women will pester weaker-willed and on-the-fence women to vote for Hitlery lest they face ostracization.
The Nineteenth Amendment is a mistake by any objective measurement.
Right on.
I cannot imagine any male with at least 5 molecules of testosterone in his blood actually voting for Hillary.
Nor can I imagine any female with at least 5 molecules of estrogen in her blood voting for Hillary.
Maybe after the democrat convention, I can get an audio of finger nails on the chalkboard to soothe away the sound of her voice.
Unfortunately, too many young ‘men’ today whose father figures are their mothers. Effeminate males EVERYWHERE today. It’s a sickness and it’s rampant.
I think this is significant. The statistics clearly show that men have been getting the short end of the stick for several decades now. I recently read that total employment in the health care industry has now surpassed manufacturing in the United States. That says it all. Trump has shown a willingness to stand up tall as a man, and take what’s coming to him for doing so. That inspires a lot of confidence that maybe he’ll turn the tide.
The only way Hillary can win is thru voter fraud and giving millions of illegals the vote just before the election.
LOL, Mitt got the Metro vote, not the man's man vote. Trump is also leading with Independents and White women. Trump will also get the younger under 30 vote.
Dick Morris??? Really....’toe sucker’???
Ok, well Mr. Trump is going to win because people are tired of the corruption, no only in the Clinton RICO mafia crime family, but the House of Representative, and Senate...we take these people at their word that they will work for us, they get there and then do whatever they want...they don’t work for themselves, we pay them out of our taxes to work for us; we are tired of not having jobs, to feed our families, to afford a nice life, we are tired of working 2-4 jobs a day to put food on our tables and a roof over our heads; we are tired of being lied to about a health care plan that wasn’t meant for us, it was meant to put money in other peoples pockets; we are tired of seeing our benefits being given to people who are not legal to be in our Country, after all, we have paid taxes on our benefits and it’s OUR money, on some illegal immigrant waving the Mexican Flag and hurting, both pyscially and mentally, our American People; we are tired of seeing our Veterans and Wounded Warriors who have fought for our freedoms living on the streets, and not having the care they deserve, if it wasn’t for them, we wouldn’t be here right now.
We are tired of the lies, Barky is no more a legal citizen to run this country than one of those illeriate illegal immigrants that come across our borders and expect to live like kings here...Barky has NO reason to be in the highest office of our Country...
I could go on for days, someday I might right a book on the things in just this last year Mr. Trump has shown us about how dirty, filthy our government has become, but for right now you all get the meaning of what I’m saying...THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE SICK AND TIRED OF THE SHIT!!! And this is the reason Donald J. Trump will be our next POTUS!!!
Hillary is America’s Ex-wife. The more she shrieks and talks at men, the worse she does.
My teeneage son put it best: Hillary is where boners go to die.
"If you have an erection lasting more than 4 hours, look at a photo of Hillary Clinton."
My teenage son put it best: Hillary is where boners go to die.
I pretty much agree with the article. It will be up to men to carry the day in November. We’ve got to do it. GO TRUMP!!
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