{"id":3965,"date":"2020-12-07T15:36:28","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T15:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3965"},"modified":"2020-12-07T15:36:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T15:36:28","slug":"democrats-have-a-republican-women-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3965","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Have a Republican-Women Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“The women\u2014all white, all from the greater Phoenix area\u2014had been repelled by Trump in 2016. None of them voted for Hillary Clinton. But over the past four years, as they watched their party fall to Trumpism, their disgust sent them all in the same direction: the Democratic Party.”
…
“This suburban shift has been especially clear here in Maricopa County, the 9,000-square-mile of beige housing developments and lush golf courses around Phoenix, which accounts for more than 60 percent of Arizona\u2019s votes. The candidate who wins Maricopa\u2014one of the most populous counties in the nation\u2014nearly always wins Arizona, and no Republican nominee has ever won the White House without Arizona since it became a state in 1912. But the state has become much more hospitable to Democrats since Trump\u2019s election. In the 2018 midterms, which were seen as a repudiation of Trump, especially in the suburbs<\/a>, Democrat Kyrsten Sinema won Maricopa and became the first Democrat to win a Senate race in Arizona in 30 years. Sixteen percent of Republican women in Maricopa broke with their party<\/a> to vote for Sinema that year, exit polls showed.” 
…
“Overall, most white Republican women supported Trump. But nationally, \u201cwe\u2019ve not seen this amount of defection from the Republican Party in 20 or 30 years,\u201d Christopher Weber, a professor at the University of Arizona School of Government and Public Policy, told me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The suburban shift went well beyond Maricopa. Through organizing by activists of color and the leftward tilt of white, college-educated women, Biden was able to capture many of America\u2019s other big suburbs, including Cobb County, Georgia,<\/a> outside of Atlanta, and the counties surrounding Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Detroit; and Houston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For many of the GOP defectors, it came down to the president\u2019s personality\u2014his flagrant racism and misogyny, his bullying, his insult comedy.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“the women were careful to note that it\u2019s not just Trump\u2019s personality that turns them off. It\u2019s his antipathy toward the issues that feel most urgent to them. That attitude helps make them prime targets for the Democratic Party. These women are conservative, yes: They believe in low taxes, limited government, free trade, and \u201cthe responsibility of individuals,\u201d as Andersen put it. But they also crave action on climate change. They want affordable health care for all Americans. They want a humane immigration system. They want policies to promote equality and address police brutality. For many Republican women in America, the starkest example of Trump\u2019s failure has been his administration\u2019s mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic, his refusal to encourage mask wearing, and his blas\u00e9 attitude toward the crisis, experts told me.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Since he won the Democratic primary, Biden has tried to forge a healthy partnership with Bernie Sanders\u2013aligned members of his party. He\u2019s accepted their counsel on issues such as climate change, and he\u2019s adopted several progressive policy positions. But all along, leftists have questioned just how genuine his commitment is. That\u2019s why women like Andersen and Skousen scare them: They worry that the addition of anti-Trump Republicans to the Democratic coalition will nudge the former vice president back toward the ideological center, a place where he\u2019s traditionally been most comfortable. They fear that the moderates and former Republicans who helped him win in crucial swing states will be the voters he most wants to appease in office. They worry that he\u2019ll\u00a0stock his executive branch<\/a>\u00a0with Bill Clinton\u2013era Democrats and corporate executives, and fill his Cabinet with Republicans such as former Ohio Governor\u00a0John Kasich<\/a>.”\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2020\/11\/gop-women-who-ditched-their-party-vote-democrat\/616987\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The women\u2014all white, all from the greater Phoenix area\u2014had been repelled by Trump in 2016. None of them voted for Hillary Clinton. But over the past four years, as they watched their party fall to Trumpism, their disgust sent them all in the same direction: the Democratic Party.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“This suburban shift has been especially clear here in Maricopa County, the 9,000-square-mile of beige housing developments and lush golf courses around Phoenix, which accounts for more than 60 percent of Arizona\u2019s votes. The candidate who wins Maricopa\u2014one of the most populous counties in the nation\u2014nearly always wins Arizona, and no Republican nominee has ever won the White House without Arizona since it became a state in 1912. But the state has become much more hospitable to Democrats since Trump\u2019s election. In the 2018 midterms, which were seen as a repudiation of Trump, especially in the suburbs, Democrat Kyrsten Sinema won Maricopa and became the first Democrat to win a Senate race in Arizona in 30 years. Sixteen percent of Republican women in Maricopa broke with their party to vote for Sinema that year, exit polls showed.” <\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Overall, most white Republican women supported Trump. But nationally, \u201cwe\u2019ve not seen this amount of defection from the Republican Party in 20 or 30 years,\u201d Christopher Weber, a professor at the University of Arizona School of Government and Public Policy, told me.
\nThe suburban shift went well beyond Maricopa. Through organizing by activists of color and the leftward tilt of white, college-educated women, Biden was able to capture many of America\u2019s other big suburbs, including Cobb County, Georgia, outside of Atlanta, and the counties surrounding Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Detroit; and Houston.<\/p>\n

For many of the GOP defectors, it came down to the president\u2019s personality\u2014his flagrant racism and misogyny, his bullying, his insult comedy.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“the women were careful to note that it\u2019s not just Trump\u2019s personality that turns them off. It\u2019s his antipathy toward the issues that feel most urgent to them. That attitude helps make them prime targets for the Democratic Party. These women are conservative, yes: They believe in low taxes, limited government, free trade, and \u201cthe responsibility of individuals,\u201d as Andersen put it. But they also crave action on climate change. They want affordable health care for all Americans. They want a humane immigration system. They want policies to promote equality and address police brutality. For many Republican women in America, the starkest example of Trump\u2019s failure has been his administration\u2019s mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic, his refusal to encourage mask wearing, and his blas\u00e9 attitude toward the crisis, experts told me.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Since he won the Democratic primary, Biden has tried to forge a healthy partnership with Bernie Sanders\u2013aligned members of his party. He\u2019s accepted their counsel on issues such as climate change, and he\u2019s adopted several progressive policy positions. But all along, leftists have questioned just how genuine his commitment is. That\u2019s why women like Andersen and Skousen scare them: They worry that the addition of anti-Trump Republicans to the Democratic coalition will nudge the former vice president back toward the ideological center, a place where he\u2019s traditionally been most comfortable. They fear that the moderates and former Republicans who helped him win in crucial swing states will be the voters he most wants to appease in office. They worry that he\u2019ll stock his executive branch with Bill Clinton\u2013era Democrats and corporate executives, and fill his Cabinet with Republicans such as former Ohio Governor John Kasich.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,372,506,170,479,1098],"class_list":["post-3965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-republicans","tag-trump","tag-voting","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3966,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965\/revisions\/3966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}