Posted on 12/12/2019 1:08:08 PM PST by Faith Presses On
Even after last weeks extensive public hearings, the American public remains split on impeaching President Trump, with 50 percent in support of the process and 43 percent against it.
But some groups of Americans are a lot more supportive of impeachment than others. In a CNN poll released Tuesday, a full 61 percent of women were in favor of impeaching Trump while 34 percent were against it. Among men, by contrast, just 40 percent support impeachment and 53 percent oppose it.
The gender gap also shows up in Trumps approval ratings: 52 percent of men approve of how the president is doing compared with 32 percent of women, according to the CNN poll.
One big factor at work in the gender divide is party identification. Women are more likely than men to be Democrats, and one of the strongest drivers of support for impeachment is partisanship, Kelly Dittmar, an assistant professor of political science and scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics, told Vox. In the CNN poll, 90 percent of Democrats supported impeachment compared with just 10 percent of Republicans.
‘It does not seem right that FReepers would make such broad (no pun intended) generalizations about women, and how they might vote.;
have you studied the past 7 presidential elections and the vote total sorted by gender...? do so, and note the trend line...
I think they went for fans of “The View” as their main respondents...
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