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How Married Couples Vote
Listening to Dem talking points, vast numbers of suburban moms are switching to Biden. Is this misinformation or something real? How often do married couples cancel each other at the ballot box? In 2016, only 3% of women voted for a different Presidential candidate than their husband. I don't believe this data point coming from Democrats. I think it's an effort to sway women. Granted, there are many suburban women who aren't married to a man but even then, I don't see this blue wave among suburban women that they are supposedly seeing.
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RE: How Married Couples Vote
We won't know till Tuesday.

If the 3% number in 2016 is right, it's probably not worth worrying about.

I'd imagine most single moms already vote Blue anyways
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(10-31-2020 08:15 PM)WKUApollo Wrote:  Listening to Dem talking points, vast numbers of suburban moms are switching to Biden. Is this misinformation or something real? How often do married couples cancel each other at the ballot box? In 2016, only 3% of women voted for a different Presidential candidate than their husband. I don't believe this data point coming from Democrats. I think it's an effort to sway women. Granted, there are many suburban women who aren't married to a man but even then, I don't see this blue wave among suburban women that they are supposedly seeing.

I give my wife a list of who and what to vote for. She usually asks for it a few days before we go vote.

I think single women over the age of 30 are probably who they are targeting. That is a reliable vote for dims. They know they need extra support from the "abortion demographic" since they have to make up for the loss of Hispanics and African Americans.
10-31-2020 08:22 PM
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(10-31-2020 08:15 PM)WKUApollo Wrote:  Listening to Dem talking points, vast numbers of suburban moms are switching to Biden. Is this misinformation or something real? How often do married couples cancel each other at the ballot box? In 2016, only 3% of women voted for a different Presidential candidate than their husband. I don't believe this data point coming from Democrats. I think it's an effort to sway women. Granted, there are many suburban women who aren't married to a man but even then, I don't see this blue wave among suburban women that they are supposedly seeing.

The inner suburbs are no longer devoid of Black residents. And Blacks are 90% Democrats. Plus single women are trending Democrat. That is who is voting Democrat in the suburbs. White married women are still strongly Republican, but a lot more of them are now living in what used to be the exurbs.

Gwinnett County by Atlanta is a perfect example. Once Georgia flipped to Republican it was ground zero for Republicans. In 1990 it had 450,000 people and was 90% white. Now, the number of white residents is the same, but it has 900,000 people. Southern Gwinnett is heavily Black and parts have a lot of Hispanics and Asians. Cobb County to the northwest of Atlanta is similar. Meanwhile outer counties like Cherokee and Forsyth have exploded in population. They are a lot more diverse than they used to be, but are solidly Republican instead of blue collar Democrat.

Fort Bend County Southwest of Houston is similar to Gwinnett.
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RE: How Married Couples Vote
I fit that demographic. (Yes there actually are a few women who follow sports and politics.)

For the life of me, I can not figure out why women who opted to vote for Trump in 2016, thus choosing to not cast their votes for the first female president HRC...
(which I do hope to see in my lifetime but not HRC)
Why would those same women now choose to change that vote to Joe Biden?

What has Trump done in 4 years that we didn't know of before voting in 2016 that would change a woman's vote?

Trump has actually kept his promises for the most part unlike most politicians

and the change is Covid related...no president would've done any better handling a brand new virus as there is no set game plan for dealing with it.
Sure he could have locked the country down for months and saved some lives...but the damage to the economy would've been catastrophic.
Instead Trump incentivized and put the full force of American capitalism via Big Pharma to work researching, testing and producing a vaccine in record time as well as therapeutics that are providing better outcomes than early on.

I just don't see those women swinging in large numbers to Biden. (But I am a pragmatist and don't operate on emotion like many of my sex so maybe many do switch.)
Hope not.

The Kamala Harris, AOC, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders version of America scares the crap out of me.
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RE: How Married Couples Vote
I really can't ever remember my wife and I disagreeing much over any candidate. She has urged me to vote for or against someone local due to her contact with them and Ive generally followed her lead because I value her judgement..but..in state and national elections we generally are on the same page other than my penchant for voting 3rd party in presidential elections.

Im calling fabrics on this. Very rarely do spouses cancel each others votes and I dont expect it this time either.
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