Data Download: Trump's Gender Gap Could Be a Gender Canyonby DANTE CHINNI
http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/data-download-trump-s-gender-gap-could-be-gender-canyon-n546226Negative views of Mr. Trump are hardly news. Overall 64% of Americans had a negative view of the GOP frontrunner in the most recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, while only 25% had a positive view.
But among women, those numbers go to 70% negative and 21% positive, as Carrie Dann noted last week.
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In 2012 Mitt Romney won white women by 14 points according to exit polls - 56% to 42% for President Barack Obama. But in the latest NBC/WSJ poll white women go to Hillary Clinton in a hypothetical general election matchup with Mr. Trump by 10 points, 48% to 38%
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Or consider Mr. Trump's struggles with women in the places elections are won and lost, the suburbs. In the NBC/WSJ poll, Mrs. Clinton leads Mr. Trump among suburban women by 30 points, 60% to 30%.
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In fact, there isn't a single women's group Mr. Trump wins over Mrs. Clinton. She wins women who are college grads (60% to 30%). She wins women without a degree (56% to 32%). She wins women 18-49 (63% - 26%). And she wins women 50 or older (53% to 36%).
......In 2012, women were 53% of the presidential electorate. Margins like these would make it all but impossible for a candidate who can't win women, to win a general election.