This is the change in women’s vote, by party, from 2016 (the Trump election) to the 2018 congressional elections. The figures are the shift toward Democrats.
All women: +6%
White unmarried women: +10%
White women with a college degree: +13%
White working class women: +13%
It isn’t all good news. While white working-class women shifted toward Dems by 13%, they still gave a majority of their votes to Republicans. On the other hand, Democrats cut the Republicans’ margin in rural areas by 13%, according to an exit poll for CNN and by 7% according to a poll by Catalist. Yes, Democrats lost rural America, and that hurt them in the Senate, but Democrats did make progress in rural areas.
Info for this post is from Stanley B. Greenberg, “Trump Is Losing His Grip,” New York Times, (Nov. 18, 2018), p. SR6.
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