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Men Power Conservatives to a Landslide
Victory
Tuesday’s election marked a stunning
turn-around for the Republican Party, which gained
60 new seats in the House and an six additional
seats in the Senate. As much as any other
demographic, it was conservative men who brought
the GOP back from two dreary years in the political
wilderness.
Overall, 56% of the male electorate voted
Republican, compared to 49% of women, according to
exit polls: www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2010/results/polls.main/#
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While women are known to outnumber men, the 7-point
gender gap was more than enough for men to leverage
the GOP to a ringing victory that resonated from
the coal fields of Pennsylvania to the sun-kissed
beaches of Florida and the bayous of Louisiana.
The male surge was felt across all major
racial/ethnic groups. Compared to 2008, the
percentage of white male voters who voted
Republican expanded from 54% to 63%, according to
the CNN exit polls. Same with Latino men, who saw
an increase from 28% to 38%. And the number of
Black males swept into the GOP ranks doubled, going
from 7% in 2008 to 14% in 2010.
In race after race, energized men rescued the
Republican Party from its electoral doldrums.
Take Florida, where the charismatic Marco Rubio
handily beat Charlie Crist. While 64% of men pulled
the lever for Rubio, only 44% of women did the
same, handing Rubio a unassailable 20-point gender
gap advantage among men.
In New Hampshire, 65% of men supported former
Attorney General Kelly Ayotte, compared to 55% of
women. Thanks to the guy vote, Ayotte cruised to an
easy victory over Democrat Paul Hodes.
In Pennsylvania, Republican Pat Toomey slid into
a virtual tie with Democrat Joe Sestak during the
final two weeks of the race. And on Tuesday, Toomey
notched a 10-point advantage with the male
electorate, handing him the sorely-needed
victory.
In Wisconsin, men again spelled the difference.
A year ago, all the pollsters were betting Sen.
Russell Feingold would cruise to an easy
re-election. But on Tuesday, men confounded the
pundits, spotting an 8-point advantage over the
ladies.
Even in races in which the Republican party did
not prevail, the male vote turned what would have
been a lop-sided Democratic victory into an
Election Day nail-biter. In Colorado, 53% of the
guys voted to return the state into the red column,
compared to 39% of the gals. But in the end,
Michael Bennett eked out the win over GOPer Ken
Buck.
In the senatorial races in Arkansas, Illinois,
and South Carolina, the female vote exerted a
decisive effect for Republicans. But more often,
the female electorate tended to split between the
two parties, casting men as the electoral
decision-maker, such as in Indiana (Dan Coats),
Ohio (Rob Portman), and in innumerable House
races.
The pervasive impact of men on Tuesday’s
election should not have come as a surprise.
This past April the Pew Research Center released
a poll showing 52% of men favored cutting back
government programs. No surprise, the poll also
revealed 56% of males supported the goals of the
Tea Party movement.
In September, Democratic pollster Celina Lake
noted the 2010 elections were shaping up to be
“among the bigger gender gaps we’ve
seen.” And a Marist poll found 48% of
Republican men were “very enthusiastic”
about voting, with 28% of Democratic women being
similarly animated.
Last June I predicted that the 2010 mid-term
elections were shaping up to be a “Perfect
Electoral Storm” based on the male
electorate’s “resolute antipathy to
creeping socialism.”
Now all conservatives, men and women alike, need
to work together to restore fiscal sanity, preserve
the family, and undo the damage of the last two
years.
Originally published at The Daily Caller:
dailycaller.com/2010/11/05/men-power-conservatives-to-a-landslide-victory/
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Carey
Roberts probes and lampoons political correctness.
His work has been published frequently in the
Washington Times, Townhall.com, LewRockwell.com,
ifeminists.net, Intellectual Conservative, and
elsewhere. He is a staff reporter for the New Media
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