Harris holds a slight edge over Trump — and it’s driven by women, poll finds.
Harris holds a slight edge over Trump — and it’s driven by women, poll finds.
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By default Trump should have all woman voters voting against him, no matter who it is. I can't understand how any woman could look at him or his ideas and think, yes, that's best for me. Then again, I could say that about a lot of things and yet some women support them.
I read somewhere that many women will vote how their husbands and families vote, even if it's bad for themselves.
When I first becoming politically aware, I was utterly shocked by people, intelligent in some ways, saying they vote Republican because their family is Republican. Like they were voting for the Dodgers.
True of many things, probably. Peer pressure is as bad as brainwashing, or maybe a form of it.
As mistaken as I believe they are, I can see why some women support him.
Lots of single issue voters see him as the abortion ban guy. Also tons of people that don’t see “him and his ideas” per se, but are so immersed in conservative propaganda that they simply think “Trump presidency = my kids will be able buy a house and live a normal life”
Then there’s the backfire effect, where people tend to double down on their beliefs instead of correcting them when presented with contradictory data. Obviously makes it really hard to pull someone out of the cult, needs a pretty extraordinary set of circumstances in many cases.
Even then, usually it won’t stick. There’s a very well done essay, “The only moral abortion is my abortion” by Joyce Arthur, I highly recommend giving it a read. Women who faithfully protest at abortion clinics and harass other women will one day come in for their own abortion, and then be back to protesting the following day