Women voters finally realizing it's okay to want to vote for women, polls and primaries show
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For decades, men have shamelessly voted for other men while women acted like the idea of voting for a woman because she was a woman was illegitimate, even somehow dirty. That may be starting to change. While a majority of voters continue to claim—a substantWomen voters finally realizing it's okay to want to vote for women, polls and primaries show
For decades, men have shamelessly voted for other men while women acted like the idea of voting for a woman because she was a woman was illegitimate, even somehow dirty. That may be starting to change. While a majority of voters continue to claim—a substantial number of them lying and still more fooling themselves about their motives—that gender doesn’t matter, a new CBS News battleground congressional districts poll finds that “women voters in battleground congressional districts are five times as likely to say they would choose a woman candidate (28%) over a man (5%) if both candidates agreed with them on policy and party.” Unsurprisingly, Democratic women are way ahead of Republican women on this one: 42 percent of Democratic women say they’d choose a woman over a man with similar positions, while just 15 percent of Republican women say the same. Women who prefer to vote for women say female candidates may have a better understanding of issues they care about and point to a desire for diversity in politics. The poll reflects the reality we’re seeing as state primaries play out: women are winning primaries in record numbers. There’s some good news in the poll for the Democratic Party as well as for women running for office: “By 2 to 1, women trust the Democratic Party over the Republican Party on issues that impact women.” Respondents ranked health care as their top issue. Read more