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A gender gap in voting typically refers to the difference in the percentage of men and women who vote for a particular candidate. [1] It is calculated by subtracting the percentage of women supporting a candidate from the percentage of men supporting a candidate (e.g., if 55 percent of men support a candidate and 44 percent of women support the same candidate, there is an 11-point gender gap).
Nationally, women have outpaced men, 53% to 44%, in early voting, and the gap is bigger in key states such as Pennsylvania. But whom they voted for is unknown.
Democrats have not carried seniors as a voting bloc in a presidential election since Al Gore in 2000, but polling suggests Harris might do so this year thanks to older women.
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The passage of the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1870 gave African American men the right to vote. The first record of a black man voting after the amendment's adoption was when Thomas Mundy Peterson cast his vote on March 31, 1870 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey in a referendum election, adopting a revised city charter. [19]
The social relationship between gender and elections is crucial, as gender plays a significant role in moderating the correlation between election and legislative behavior. [31] Our social gender beliefs impact not only how the general public perceives women in political office but also their decision-making and political actions.
American voters are divided in many ways – by gender, by race, by region – and any of these can be used to explain the current state of politics. More women support Democrats, a gender gap ...
The Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and Public Policy estimated that by requiring voters to present a government-issued photo ID at the polls, nine states may have disenfranchised over 25,000 transgender people in the November 2012 presidential election, [15] because poll workers are unlikely to have training on ...