Saturday, May 18, 2019

Does Anyone Actually Want Joe Biden to Be President?

White voters, male voters and especially white male voters generally support Republicans.

Women vote in larger numbers than men; voters with college and post-graduate degrees turn out in larger shares than those without.

Women of color, and particularly black women, continued their trend of staunchly supporting Democrats, and turnout among racial minorities hit a high at 28 percent of voters, and 38 percent of voters under 30.

In several key states, including Ohio and Florida, white women with college degrees flipped: A majority voted Republican in 2016 and Democratic in 2018.

It's white women, not working-class white men, who are the most promising swing voters for Democrats in 2020, and who could wind up as loyal lifelong Democrats.

Strong turnout among voters of color, a Democratic shift among white voters, and significant flips by college-educated white women all reaped dividends for the women who ran in 2018.

A white male Democrat has not won the White House in more than 20 years; a white male Democrat has not won a majority of American voters since at least the 1970s.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/opinion/joe-biden-president.html

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