'Til politics do us part: Gender gap widens

[MoonAndSun]

<http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=676&e=5&u=/usatoday/20031218/ts_usatoday/12074693>


snip>The political divide between college-educated men and women has been growing for a decade. And the trend has become more important as the number of women getting undergraduate and postgraduate degrees has surged.


"Highly educated women are a new Democratic base, almost to the same extent as union voters and ethnic voters," says Democratic pollster Geoff Garin. Meanwhile, Republicans have made gains among all blue-collar workers, especially men.


The result: The stereotypes of the two political parties - Democrats as the party of the working (news - web sites) stiff, Republicans as representing those with money in the bank - no longer fit. Each party has become a more complicated coalition in which social issues and "values" are as much a unifying force as traditional bread-and-butter concerns.





this is a very good story on the gender gap and how the Dems can get the women of the country back in our camp.

[ochazuke]

1. Realignment

That's a word that is applied to what happened in the 1930s in the formation of Roosevelt's governing majority.

It came up again in 1980 and 1994, but that proved to be premature (fortunately).

Now, I'm seeing signs of a realignment taking shape that is too complicated to get an easy grasp on, but your post shows at least a couple of aspects to it.

[catzies]

2. Printed it to read and digest later; thanks!

"John Hibbing, a political scientist at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, co-authored a study that concluded the votes of men and women were driven by the state of the economy. But they assessed the economy by different standards: "We found men tended to vote in terms of their personal economic situation, and women were more likely to vote on the nation's economic situation."

Interesting. Men look at the "me," women look at the "we."

[MoonAndSun]

3. It's the same way repukes and the Dems look at things...

with repukes it's "me, me, me" and with Dems it's "we're all in this together".

[pmbryant]

4. Looks like a very interesting article

Thanks,
Peter