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Posted on 09/14/2024 8:26:50 PM PDT by Red Badger
Young women are more liberal than they have been in decades, according to a Gallup analysis of more than 20 years of polling data.
Over the past few years, about 4 in 10 young women between the ages of 18 and 29 have described their political views as liberal, compared with two decades ago when about 3 in 10 identified that way.
For many young women, their liberal identity is not just a new label. The share of young women who hold liberal views on the environment, abortion, race relations and gun laws has also jumped by double digits, Gallup found.
Young women “aren’t just identifying as liberal because they like the term or they’re more comfortable with the term, or someone they respect uses the term,” said Lydia Saad, the director of U.S. social research at Gallup. “They have actually become much more liberal in their actual viewpoints.”
While it is hard to pinpoint what is making young women more liberal, they now are overwhelmingly aligned on many issues, which could make it easier for campaigns to motivate them.
Young women are already a constituency that has leaned Democratic — AP VoteCast data shows that 65% of female voters under 30 voted for Democrat Joe Biden in 2020 — but they are sometimes less reliable when it comes to turnout.
Young women began to diverge ideologically from other groups, including men between 18 and 29, women over 30 and men over 30, during Democrat Barack Obama‘s presidency. That trend appears to have accelerated more recently.
The change in young women’s political identification is happening across the board, Gallup found, rather than being propelled by a specific subgroup.
Taylor Swift’s endorsement Tuesday of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, after her debate against Trump, illustrated one of the issues where young women have moved to the left. In Swift’s Instagram announcing the endorsement praised Harris and running mate Tim Walz for championing infanticide.
The Gallup analysis found that since the Obama era, young women have become nearly 20 percentage points more likely to support broad abortion rights. There was a roughly similar increase in the share of young women who said protection of the environment should be prioritized over economic growth and in the share of young women who say gun laws should be stricter.
Now, Saad said, solid majorities of young women hold liberal views on issues such as abortion, the environment, and gun laws.
“You’ve got supermajorities of women holding these views,” she said.
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I love that.
How many are actually women? Just saying.
I think this goes back to the colleges and universities, where women 18 to 22, 23, are simply being indoctrinated (and not so much educated). Look at videos of the anti-Israel bunch. Invariably there are the young women at the forefront, and often the most vocal. And vicious.
“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.” - Ayn Rand..............
Liberals never think outside the box of the here and now. The future is irrelevant. All that matters is feelings of the moment.................
The NEA/MSM have been hard at work
Men emulate them....................
“>> I’ll proffer a hypothesis... the young female cohort is probably the heaviest into social media platforms such as TikTok and Instagram on which leftist viewpoints are pushed by celebrities as well as popular “influencers.”
“Exhibit A: The popularity and influence of the vapid, unattractive and untalented bimbo Taylor Swift.”
I believe your hypothesis has nailed the issue precisely. That, and wanting to be regarded as “cool” by cohorts.
And too much time working on the exterior of the skull to look attractive and not enough time working on the interior of the skull to be smart.
Ha ... ditto. I had a best friend used to say “I love talking to you because you don’t chatter or think like a girl”. (he was a friend from college days)
... since the mid 60s.................
This is nonsense. Women have always voted 60-40 democrat. It’s why the founding fathers didn’t want them to vote because they’d be electing people who promised to take care of them. Nothing’s changed.
Repeal the 19th!
You can't have one half of conceptuses aborted and have the species survive.
You can't then have the half who survive be born illegitimate with no hope of a normal two parent family.
You can't have the survivors then 'taught' in female-run schools where they emerge as chronologic-age adults unable to read, add, or reason.
If they don't stop voting communist and otherwise being irresponsible/crazy as humans they will take down our entire nation.
If they take down the US, then the entire planet goes communist.
They are right now pretty much a national security risk IMHO.
If anyone can refute this, please do. Good luck. Young women today are ignorant, arrogant, tattoo-covered reprobates.
The problem is exactly as serious as I describe.
They are in need of a spiritual revival.
If this is truly the case, then why does Deep State have to steal elections...?
Deep State is ginning up another game of lets-you-and-him-fight.
Refuse to play.
They are no different than the chimpanzees...............
So they would not become monkey-meat stew cooked up by Haitians.
>> too much time working on the exterior of the skull to look attractive and not enough time working on the interior of the skull to be smart
AMEN
Part of me won’t mind if Harris wins so these idiot women get what they deserve. PS I’m definitely still supporting and voting Trump.
Absolute Bingo. They are being indoctrinated in high school and college. Probably men are more prone to rebel, because of natural aggressiveness.
Teen age boys get attention by saying things that are considered inappropriate.
Stop women’s suffrage now! Haven’t we suffered enough?
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