The American Pundit Class has been crying in their beer since Tuesday night. They didn't want The Donald to win, and they had predicted that he wouldn't. Now, they are upset to find The Donald will be President of the US in a couple of months, and they are scrabbling around for an excuse for their failed predictions.
They talk about the Hispanic vote, the black vote, the LGBT vote, the college educated vote, the White Working Class (now sporting a new acronym, the WWC) vote, the millennium vote (was that the name of a Star Wars spaceship?), and every other minority group they can invent. Or they are blaming the pollsters.
Little to no talk about the women's vote. Women are half the population, vastly larger than all the "minority groups" put together. A couple of internet postings mention in passing that Hillary got 54% of the women's vote. They didn't give The Donald's share of the women's vote, but let's just assume any women who didn't vote Hillary voted Trump, which would give Trump 46%. And a difference of 8%. From a women voting population of 123 million, 8% is 9.84 million more women's votes for Hillary than for Trump. Are there that many Hispanics or blacks in the whole country? Given The Donald's crude remarks about women that came out in the campaign, that 8% margin for Hillary is understandable. The Donald can be very offensive when he sets his mind to it.
The real question about the election results is how The Donald managed to squeak out his victory over that 9.84 million women's votes against him. He did, somehow, and that's impressive.
Next time, the Republicans need to think about doing something about that ginormous number of women who didn't/won't vote Trump. Next time the Democrats will have stronger candidate, nearly anyone with a pulse would be a stronger candidate than Hillary was.
I wonder why the pundits aren't talking about the women's vote?
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