Opinion: Why men are dominating the Democratic 2020 primary
What’s going on here? The evidence is mounting that these patterns are the work of sexism and misogyny—albeit often unconscious, unwitting and the result of implicit bias.
authors David Paul and Jessi L. Smith showed that gender is a powerful force in inducing voters to defect across party lines. Specifically, when men and women were pitted against each other in head-to-head match-ups for the presidency, a substantial proportion of Democratic voters defected to a male Republican, John McCain, rather than vote for a female candidate from their own party, Hillary Clinton.
presidential hopefuls, rather than merely hypothetical candidates: John McCain, John Edwards, Rudy Giuliani, Elizabeth Dole and Hillary Clinton. It therefore provided an ominous clue as to what fate might befall women who ran for president. There’s also the fraught question of whether Hillary Clinton was an inherently problematic candidate and therefore not the ideal test case for how gender bias affects voters. As she faced surprising losses in the 2008 presidential primary campaign and the 2012 presidential election, reasonable people may disagree about the extent to which this was due to unique features of her profile, policies and history.
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