Biden holds a slight lead over Trump in Wednesday’s poll from Quinnipiac University.
The gender gap is growing between supporters of President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll of registered voters.
And that’s good news for the Democratic incumbent: Biden holds a slight lead over Trump in Wednesday’s 2024 presidential election poll, 50 percent to 44 percent. The same matchup was “too close to call” just a month ago.
More women said they would support Biden over Trump in this latest survey, with 58 percent backing Biden and 36 percent backing Trump. Last month, the Quinnipiac poll found 53 percent of women supported the incumbent Democrat, compared to 41 percent for the Republican challenger.
The numbers were relatively unchanged for men — 53 percent of men said they’d vote for Trump and 42 percent chose Biden in the latest poll, compared to 51 percent for Biden and 41 percent for Trump in December.
Anyone remember that African country, or maybe it was a tribe, where the women, ALL of them, refused sex until peace was made? LOL, that shit was done and over in a week. Can y'all women get that going in America?
Having dated heavily in the last few years, I'm seeing it here. (For context, I'm a liberal man in a conservative area.)
I was on 6 dating sites. Hell, throw some poles in the water if you want to catch fish, right? Many women had "no MAGA" straight in their profile. But women, generally being more polite than men, mostly said "no politics". "No politics" turned out to mean, no MAGA.
Talking to a girl I later dated, "I'm kind of a redneck."
"...uh... Exactly how redneck?"
"I fucking loathe Trump if that's what you're asking."
"Oh. WHEW! Sorry, just had to get that out of the way."
Play an interesting first-date game? Ask about the craziest date they've been on. My god. The abusive conservatives I've been schooled about. Guys fighting politics on the first date! Calling the woman names, bitching her out, all that. I could go on for ages.
tl;dr Women: Don't date conservatives. Cut them off.
I am truly shocked Trump is getting that much support. It is disgusting as I am near certain most of these voters would never want to live in places like China or North Korea, yet here they are voting for that oppression. Sure a small percentage of them will benefit greatly, but most will suffer when leadership is as narcissistic and self serving as Trump. Insane.
The numbers were relatively unchanged for men — 53 percent of men said they’d vote for Trump and 42 percent chose Biden in the latest poll, compared to 51 percent for Biden and 41 percent for Trump in December.
This has to be a typo... right?
Edit: From the linked study, the accurate version:
Men 53 - 42 percent support Trump, largely unchanged from December when it was 51 - 41 percent.
There is an interesting trend that Gen Z men are leaning more conservative, while more Gen Z women are becoming liberal :
Something strange is happening between Gen Z men and women. Over the past decade, poll after poll has found that young people are growing more and more divided by gender on a host of political issues. Since 2014, women between the ages of 18 and 29 have steadily become more liberal each year, while young men have not. Today, female Gen Zers are more likely than their male counterparts to vote, care more about political issues, and participate in social movements and protests.
While the gender gap is an enduring feature of American politics, at no time in the past quarter century has there been such a rapid divergence between the views of young men and women. The startling speed of the change suggests something more significant is going on than just new demographic patterns, such as rising rates of education or declining adherence to a religion — the change points to some kind of cataclysmal event. After speaking with more than 20 Gen Zers, my colleagues at the Survey Center on American Life and I found that among women, no event was more influential to their political development than the #MeToo movement.
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As women's political priorities have solidified, young men's priorities have melted into mush. Surveys consistently show that young men are far less likely than women to say any particular issue is personally important to them. A survey we conducted last year found that young women expressed statistically significant greater concern for 11 out of 15 different issues, including drug addiction, crime, climate change, and gun violence. There was not a single issue that young men cared about significantly more than young women.
I suspect a whole lot of young women learned that it wasn't abstract, but their own mothers had suffered assaults and abuse. Used to be moms didn't talk about it at all with their kids. But during MeToo they talked about it with their daughters but not their sons. I watched it happen in my own house.
Not all that surprising IMO, many issues that are considered "Men's Rights" issues are rarely used as more than just fodder for bitching and moaning, because the second anyone talks solutions, they end up moving towards feminism and dismantling patriarchy.
As for what issues could animate them that aren't specific to manly stuff, climate change has proven to be important to Gen Z but a lot more as a looming spectre of forthcoming death rather than as a political crisis that needs and inspires action. The zoomer doomers basically see climate change the way their boomer parents see the return of Christ.
There was not a single issue that young men cared about significantly more than young women
I bet they could change that by asking about "ethics in journalism and media," or some such because fucking GamerGate did some severe psychological damage to a whole generation of middle school boys when they were at a vulnerable place in their development and we're just now realizing the scope of that
Did you respond to the wrong question? He asked if the numbers posted showing a much larger shift from Biden in the lead to Trump now in the lead for men, preceded by the statement that there was not as much a shift in men as there was in women. Then you go on about Gen Z.
Biden holds a lead among all registered voters 50% to Trump's 44%, and Trump has held a largely unchanged male-voter lead over Biden that went from 51-41 to 53-42 in favor of trump since last month
Thank you, I read sentence repeatedly trying to figure out how the numbers flip flopping was relatively unchanged and trying to figure out what I was missing.
I find this odd. A study came out last year (iirc) that found that, as Americans get older, a greater percentage of each age cohort becomes more conservative. It was particularly interesting because each generation exhibited the trend at the same rate - just offset by the age differences.
However millennials broke the trend, becoming more liberal as they got older, and Gen Z even more so.
I’d have to look at the details of the two studies to come to any conclusions as to what’s driving the different findings.
For me, a single data point, my GenX ass has become more liberal.
Seemed getting more conservative with age was a perfectly normal thing. You got more experience in life, can see more nuanced views, fight back against change that might have unintended consequences. I get it. Or at least I did get it...
What rates as conservative vs. liberal has changed drastically over the last decade or two. LOL, I call myself wildly liberal, but for a 20-something me, I'd have been a raging conservative in the 90s.
Anyway, power to the youth. I trust you guys, I believe in you, you're my kid's future.
Now can you take your happy ass to the polls? Pretty please with sugar on top? Get off your ass and save the world?
Same here - that’s why I was surprised by that result for Gen X.
I don’t usually associate conservatives with having more nuanced views, though. Think about all the pushback on diversity programs and CRT. I think that nuanced thought is largely an effect of education, where you learn more facts as well as how to think through problems.
They're still consistent, young men are still overall way more liberal/left leaning than the ordinary generational shift, it's just that young women have departed much further much faster since Dobbs has created a massive call to action that young women are VERY motivated by while young men haven't had that watershed moment that drives them to really act against the system.
If it was like, "each state gets to set limits on how many times you can have sex or jack off in a month because it kills fetuses", guys everywhere would be in a rage.
I can't figure out how women can still support the Republicans after they took their rights away.
I totally agree, but the study I read was pre-Dobbs, I believe. It was a longitudinal study so the data in the study was absolutely pre-Dobbs and went back through the 50s or so. Sorry - it’s been a while and the thing that stuck with me the most was the line graph.
Was gonna say the same, as I remember reading a study a few years back that came to this conclusion. They found no direct correlation between age and shifting political opinions, but that as people accumulated wealth, they were more likely to become more conservative.
Basically, when people start benefitting from the system, they stop wanting that system to change.
I was not implying otherwise - not intentionally at least. I do think wealth has a lot to do with it. However, there’s also a developing fear of change as people get older (so becoming conservative in the classical sense of the word in terms of not wanting things to change), and if I recall correctly there’s increases in things like religiosity as well. I’m not aware of anyone who looked at the aging effect on things like racism, etc., but I wouldn’t be surprised. My father, who was a Republican, used to say that a conservative was a liberal who’d gotten mugged.
I think the new consensus is that generations don't trend conservative, but deaths trend liberal. People in need of healthcare tend to vote democratic - but people in need of healthcare also die at higher rates then the general population. Married people tend to live longer, and until gay marriage was legalized, that meant gay people lived shorter lives. Conservatives tend to be more afraid of things, which until they became afraid of COVID vaccines, made them more cautious and live longer. This is just but a handful of things that recently turned around and equalized the death rates.
I'm not sure about that. For one the trend towards conservative manifests itself way before death rates are a significant factor. Plus, none of that explains women who live longer.
No, it's much simpler. Traditionally older people skew conservative because... well they simply want to conserve the past. It's just straight up inertia. Nothing complicated about it.
Here's the thing though: Republicans are not conservative. They do not want status quo. They are regressive. They want to completely reform the system from the ground up in their own vision. They have realized that the status quo is leaving them behind, and the only way for the system to work for them is to take it back by force, with new oppressive policies. Authoritarianism. Discrimination.
Anyway, support for regressive policies are not explained by inertia, for it is an opposite force. Which explains why this is no longer a generational divide. I think other factors are just minor details by comparison. The fact that these regressive policies discriminate against women, for example, is the new divide.
If anything I would speculate that it's actually because people tend to accrue wealth as they get older and millennials are the first generation that's really struggling to do that.