2016 Prez Election Reflects Record Gender Gap

24.4 points

The average gender gap in 22 national polls since Hillary Clinton effectively sewed up the Democratic nomination on June 7, and the median gap is 26 points, slightly ahead of the exit poll era record set in 2000, according to Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball: “With four months to go in the 2016 general election campaign, national polls suggest that it’s quite possible that the Hillary Clinton-Donald Trump clash may well set a new record for partisan differences between the sexes.”

Trump’s Hitlerian Rise Is Attributable to Mainstream GOPers

Like Hitler, Trump is a radical, authoritarian figure who lies outside the normal parameters of his country’s conservative governing class. Thus, there is a parallel between the two men’s unexpected rise to power that is worth considering: Why would traditional conservatives willingly hand power to a figure so dangerous that he threatened their own political and economic interests? Why, having failed in their halfhearted efforts to nominate an alternative candidate during the primaries, don’t they throw themselves behind a convention coup, a third-party candidacy, or defect outright to Hillary Clinton? Why do so many of them consider Trump the lesser rather than the greater evil?

— Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine/h2>