Women will decide America's future

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : Even if Trump were not such a polarising candidate, targeting female swing voters is a smart political strategy.
43% : In the US, this became apparent in 2016, when there was a silent majority of angry white men in places such as the Midwestern industrial heartland who ditched their traditional affiliation with the Democratic party and voted Trump into power.
34% : While Trump has his usual lead among white people in rural areas, and Harris polls higher with black voters and the young, the big divide is on gender.
28% : And if the polls and political strategists are right, they may show up in droves for Harris.Consider an NBC poll in mid-October that, like many others, put the overall race in a dead heat between Harris and Trump, both of whom have 48 per cent of the potential vote.
27% : In fact, according to the Washington Monthly's Gender Gap tracker, the vice-president lost a bit of her lead with women in the penultimate week of the race, even as Trump widened his margin with men.
24% : That means Harris's current gender advantage looks more like Hillary Clinton's in the race against Trump rather than the margins enjoyed by Joe Biden or Barack Obama during their victories.
22% : This time around, it's women who are angry -- not so much about the demise of factory jobs as the threats to abortion rights, and the economic risks posed by Trump.
22% : Even many working-class white women whose husbands are likely to vote Trump favour her, perhaps because she talks to them about kitchen-table issues such as the cost of living crisis.

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