{"id":39,"date":"2008-05-01T08:57:45","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T08:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/2008\/05\/hillarys-man-problem.html"},"modified":"2008-05-01T08:57:45","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T08:57:45","slug":"hillarys-man-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/2008\/05\/hillarys-man-problem.html","title":{"rendered":"Hillary’s Man Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reprinted from the Wall Street Journal Online<\/a><\/em>
\nSuperdelegates and pundits have spent much of the last week assessing whether Barack Obama\u2019s skin color makes him unelectable.
\nWell, here\u2019s another awkward question: Why hasn\u2019t Hillary Clinton been able to win men?
\nConsider this stunning fact: Sen. Obama has beaten Sen. Clinton among men in 23 of the 29 primaries for which we have exit polls. Even in big electoral states that Sen. Obama famously lost \u2014 such as Pennsylvania, California, Texas, New Jersey \u2014 Sen. Obama carried more men.
\nNow, one could flip this and say it\u2019s more a sign of Sen. Clinton\u2019s strength among women than her weakness among men. While Sen. Obama has energized the young, Sen. Clinton has brought more women to the polls. In eight contests, a remarkable 60% of the voters were women, and she\u2019s done especially well among working class women. Newsweek\u2019s cover story on Sen. Obama\u2019s Bubba Gap might be slightly off: Sen. Obama\u2019s biggest problem is with Bubba\u2019s wife or girlfriend. (Bubbette? Marge?<\/a> Danica<\/a>?).
\nOn balance, though, the gender gap has so far played more to Sen. Obama\u2019s advantage. He has more delegates in part because he\u2019s done better among women (winning the women\u2019s vote in 12 states) than she has among men.
\nAnd the role of the gender gap will likely increase, not decrease, in the general election. In a March Pew poll<\/a>, 26% of general-election voters said \u201cmen are better leaders than women,\u201d and those voters are 26 percentage points less likely to support Sen. Clinton. In the Democratic primaries, a huge percentage of the electorate has been women. Yet in the 2004 general election, only 54% of the voters were women. To counteract this latent bit of sexism, Sen. Clinton would need to win women handily while increasing their turnout dramatically compared to the last election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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