Women on the internet this week

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Women on the internet this week - Lemmy.World

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.

www.cnn.com/election/2024/exit-polls

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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”

AP VoteCast takeaways: Gender voting gap was unremarkable compared with recent history

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.

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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 %.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_(politics)

Swing (politics) - Wikipedia

You’re right. My mistake. Thanks for the link!