Thread by @jennpiscopo

So much media chatter about #WomenVoters in #Election2020. Except, if (white, non-college educated) women vote in large numbers for #Biden, doesn't that mean the story is really about why (some) men still love Trump? A Sunday 🧵on gender & the vote. ⤵️ 1/9

To begin, @kdittmar gets it right in this @nytimes piece: "To characterize the women’s vote as if it stands for a single ideology or agenda would be too simplistic...We would rarely make the same characterization for men.” (Follow her.) 2/9
nytimes.com/2020/10/29/us/…

My piece in @SmithsonianMag makes a similar point: Clinton swept Black women, but narrowly lost white women; but w/in the group of white women, those who are educated, young and/or single broke for Clinton. Race & socioeconomic status matter. 3/9 smithsonianmag.com/history/how-ha…

So Trump goes ahead & appeals to suburban white women, because if older, married and/or non-college educated white women abandon the #GOP ship.... 4/9
vox.com/21524907/subur…

Except it's not the 1950s anymore. The suburbs are pretty diverse. Black suburban women are organizing in Atlanta, for instance. Follow @BrownPhDGirl @WendyGSmooth @D_Lemi @dr_acps for the latest on how women of color vote. 5/9 wabe.org/suburban-black…

But let's go back to men. Amazing folks at @CAWP_RU like @claire_gothreau are tracking polls' #gendergap (🙏). Recent poll: 58% white men support Trump vs 48% white women... and 25% non-white men like him, compared to 10% non-white women. Hello! 6/9
cawp.rutgers.edu/presidential-p…

So let's not let a good "#WomenVoters story" distract us from how GOP is becoming the party of disaffected men. There's some coverage on men voters gaining steam, using the hook of why non-white men support Trump, despite his racism. 7/9 npr.org/2020/10/28/928…

But here's where diversity *among men* matters (cf @kdittmar). Biden's support is not just due to winning (white) suburban women. He's won back Democratic-leaning (white) men who really, really, didn't like Clinton (cf "but her emails"). 8/9 brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/20…

Punchline: Biden is drawing conservative(ish) white women & ambivalent sexist men, leaving Trump w/ the clear patriarchs. In addition to folks named ⤴️, follow @sidney_b @MelissaDeckman @C_Wolbrecht @ErinCassese @tiffanydbarnes for more! #GenderLens2020 #womenalsoknowstuff 9/9