Women on the internet this week
Women on the internet this week
Your numbers are incorrect.
Men: Harris 42%, Trump 55%
Women: Harris 53%, Trump 45%
It was a 20% swing in gender.
Black people are a large exception to the gender demographics. Black men voted 77% for Harris, and Black women 91%. It’s possible the comments you’re seeing about men are intended to be directed at white men who influenced the results over every other sex and race with 60% support for Trump and 34% of the total vote.
My data is from AP apnews.com/…/trump-harris-gender-gap-votecast-056…
I have no idea what you mean by “20% swing in gender.” There’s an 8% gap between men and women supporting Trump, and the AP said: “the gender voting gap was unremarkable by recent historical standards.”
Also, AP reported that Biden had 55% of the women vote, meaning that the gender gap today is narrower than the 2020 election.
“Harris had the advantage among women, winning 53% to Trump’s 46%, but that margin was somewhat narrower than President Joe Biden’s in 2020, according to the survey. In 2020, VoteCast showed Biden won 55% of women”
If women alone had voted, Donald Trump would have lost the presidential election decisively. Men were more likely than women to support President-elect Trump, but in the end, the gender voting gap was unremarkable by historical standards. That's according to AP VoteCast, a survey of more than 120,000 voters nationwide. Harris had the advantage among women, winning 53% to Trump’s 46%, but that margin was somewhat narrower than President Joe Biden’s in 2020, Trump benefited from narrow gains among men and women both, despite a campaign characterized by machismo that often peddled misogynistic rhetoric.
The swing is determined by adding the difference from both sexes.
55-42=13% more men voted for Trump than Harris
53-45=8% more women voted for Harris than Trump
13+8=21% swing from men to women
Just to explain why people are confused:
If it were 100% of men voting Trump, and 100% of women voting Harris, your math would give a 200% swing, so you’re essentially double counting. Divide by 2 to get the actual swing %.
And since everyone here sucks at maths:
Out of every 100 men, 42 voted Harris, 55 trump, so that’s about 30% more Trump voters than Harris voters (or, for every 100 Harris voters, there are 130 Trump voters)
Out of every 100 women, 53 voted Harris, 45 Trump, so that’s 15% fewer trump voters than Harris voters (or, for every 100 Harris voters, there are 85 trump voters.)
So men voted for trump at 130/85~53% higher rates than women. Or, for every 100 female trump voters, there are 153 male Trump voters, meaning women make up roughly 40% of his voter base.