Los Angeles (AFP) – Despite sex assault allegations hounding him, fat-shaming a former beauty queen and his controversial abortion stand, a large number of women voters helped put Donald Trump in the White House.
Though his rival, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, clinched 54 percent of the female vote, Trump was backed by 42 percent of women voters, which contributed to his stunning victory, according to CNN exit polls.
Some 53 percent of white women voters supported the Republican candidate, CNN said, the majority of them (62 percent) non-college educated.
The results upended predictions that sexist and degrading comments Trump made against women would sway female voters — who accounted for about 52 percent of the electorate Tuesday — in favor of a candidate that could have broken the glass ceiling.
Experts said the outcome is not surprising, and reflects an election in which issues about the economy, jobs and immigration were much higher on all voters’ priority list than gender issues.
“At the heart of it is what was driving all voters,” said Diane Heith, professor and chair of the Department of Government and Politics at St. John’s University in New York.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-fared-well-women-voters-despite-sex-assault-050433269.html
Most women really want to see a woman President, but just not THATwoman.
Trump won in a landslide.
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Electoral Vote:
Trump 306
Clinton: 232
TRUMP got 32% more Electoral Votes than Clinton
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States:
Trump: 30
Clinton: 20
TRUMP got 50% more States than Clinton
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Popular Vote:
Trump: 59,704,886
Clinton: 59,938,290
CLINTON got 0.0039% more Popular Votes than Trump
a statistical tie.
*Note: popular votes taken from politico.com other sites have SLIGHTLY different but SIMILAR vote counts
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If you add in the states they are still refusing to call – Arizona, Michigan and New Hampshire (even though 100% of the vote in these states have been counted) Clinton’s margin in the popular vote falls even lower to 0.0022% (a margin of 139,069 votes)
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Popular Vote:
Trump: 63,302,471 (59,704,886 + Michigan 2,279,211 + Arizona 972,900 + New Hampshire 345,464)
Clinton: 63,441,540 (59,938,290 + Michigan 2,267,798 + Arizona 888,374 + New Hampshire 347,078)
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This is ONLY a difference of 139,069 votes – a 0.0022% Clinton advantage.
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To put this in perspective, Clinton’s popular vote margin of victory is the equivalent of only”Twelve and a half Ridgewoods”
(Ridgewood’s total vote count was 11,203 votes)
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Note: I also used Politico to get the “missing” popular vote numbers for Michigan, Arizona and New Hampshire