(Enter Stage Right) — Establishment punditry which constantly warns Republicans about their “Gender Gap” problem, but it is the Democrats who have the problem. Consider the drubbing which Democrats took in the 2014 midterm, losing races up and down the ticket from United State Senate contests to state agriculture commissioners.
Democrats in 2014 won the women’s vote by a clear margin of 51% to 47% but Democrats lost the total vote by 52% to 47%. What happened? Republicans won the men’s vote by a landslide 57% to 41%. The math is fairly simple. Add the 47% that Republicans got from women and the 57% that Republicans got from men and divide by two: 52% of the vote for Republicans.
Four years earlier, Democrats were also crushed by Republicans up and down the ticket. In that midterm, 52% of voters went Republican, who won 55% of the male vote and 49% of the female vote. The math, again, is straightforward enough: add the 55% of the male vote Republicans won to the 49% of the female vote Republicans won and divide the sum of these two percentages by two – 52% of the total vote.
