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10 Reasons White Women Didn’t Vote for Hillary
The election last November came to a surprising close. Though Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, she had lost to Donald Trump in the electoral college, and that’s what counts. This was such a shock because Trump was abusive, crude, and unqualified to be president of the United States. His entire campaign was riddled with uncouth behavior. With her impressive list of achievements and all of her past government experience, it seemed like there was no way that Trump could emerge victorious.
However, he did, and the
breakdown in the polls had some insights on what may have happened. While the women did vote in the majority for Hillary Clinton, there were less women casting a vote for Hillary in 2016 than for Obama in the 2008 election. With how much focus her campaign had on the female voter, it is not expected to have such a narrow split. It gets even more interesting when you take a closer look at the more specific demographics.
Black women were the most supportive of Hillary, with only 4% of that demographic voting for Trump, and Hispanics also were very supportive of her in the leadership race. The big surprise was the white women who had a college education only voted 51% for Hillary, and uneducated white women only 34%. There is also the interesting fact that many white women did not even vote at all. So what happened? How did Hillary lose her key demographic? Here are 10 reasons that white women did not vote for Hillary:
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