SocraticGadfly: Myths of women voters debunked

October 29, 2008

Myths of women voters debunked

PUMAs, bloc voting shot down

Among the six debunked myths, the biggest is that women voters vote en bloc.

That was part of what enticed and deceived Steve Schmidt with the Sarah Palin pick, although he might have rolled the dice even without that myth.

Among the other myths is that women vote preferentially for women, and that the gender gap is a creation of women. (It’s men continuing to move to the right.)

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