Re:Grand Jury Votes to Indict Donald Trump
by PaulDavisThe1st on Friday March 31, 2023 @10:18AM
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Although I broadly agree with this, I think you're missing the point that statistical characteristics of particular demographics can be very important.
For example, let's say that in fact roughly 30% of women are support a particular candidate, and that this number will not vary by much more than 5% in either direction. Given that women are more or less 50% of the population, that means that this candidate will need to make up a fairly significant vote deficit by over-appealing to some male demographic.
So yes, not all women or Latinos or African-Americans vote the same way, but if, statistically, enough of them do, then you can make some broad observations about candidate strategy that are likely consequential (and true).
That thinking is exactly why the left wing isn't going anywhere with its identity politics. There is that thinking that all women will vote one way, old white men that way, all hispanics will vote one way, black people vote one way and so on.
You should have learned in 2016 that things don't work that way. Clinton thought that women would vote for here because she is a woman and lost.