{"id":1432259,"date":"2022-04-12T08:01:39","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T12:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1432259"},"modified":"2022-04-12T08:02:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T12:02:50","slug":"while-everyone-else-is-kicking-themselves-for-voting-for-biden-college-educated-women-are-doubling-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/while-everyone-else-is-kicking-themselves-for-voting-for-biden-college-educated-women-are-doubling-down\/","title":{"rendered":"While Everyone Else Is Kicking Themselves For Voting For Biden, College-Educated Women Are Doubling Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhile-everyone-else-is-kicking-themselves-for-voting-for-biden-college-educated-women-are-doubling-down%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1432259&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>NBC News recently compared several polls to find huge shifts from Democrats to Republicans in 2022 midterm voter preferences. The big exception to these shifts across many demographics was college-educated women, who in NBC\u2019s aggregation showed even stronger support for Democrats now than ahead of the last midterm election.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the key graphic, which zoomed around social media Sunday, and below that the NBC segment.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"dzER7xEeObdznTj3w0RucSpjZPQ4LVeL8C0HHfABkDh1C96ssMWYn6gFGxhJa5oWM5ioiU\"><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In trying to understand what might account for this, it\u2019s important to note what we don\u2019t know about these numbers. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/21554083-nbc-news-march-poll\">two <\/a>publicly available 2022 NBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/21184709-220027-nbc-news-january-poll\">polling <\/a>releases that presumably went into NBC\u2019s aggregation here don\u2019t disclose a key datapoint: The likely vote <em>by marital status<\/em>. And that datapoint is very important for this discussion. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because, historically, married women tend to vote Republican. Single women tend to vote Democrat, in proportions that appear to be sharply increasing. Strikingly, \u201cAmong unmarried voters, women were more supportive of Democratic candidates in 2018 than they had been of Hillary Clinton in 2016,\u201d Pew reported.<\/p>\n<p>The 2018 Pew data NBC used for its comparison <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/methods\/2020\/09\/08\/democrats-made-gains-from-multiple-sources-in-2018-midterm-victories\/\">showed <\/a>married women were about evenly likely to vote for Donald Trump as for Joe Biden, narrowing the historic trend of married women breaking Republican by a good margin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[T]he gender gap between Democrats and Republicans is actually a marriage gap,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2014\/04\/marriage-gender-gap-and-peanut-gallery-mona-charen\/\">noted <\/a>columnist Mona Charen in 2014, another midterm year. \u201cSingle women vote disproportionately for Democrats and married women vote by a comfortable margin for Republicans. The decline of marriage inclines more women to vote Democrat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If unmarried women are inclined to vote Democrat, are college-educated women more likely to be single? Not historically. In the United States, more education has for a long time correlated with higher marital rates. Here\u2019s a 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/social-trends\/2021\/10\/05\/rising-share-of-u-s-adults-are-living-without-a-spouse-or-partner\/\">chart <\/a>from Pew showing that college-educated women are still more likely to be \u201cpartnered\u201d \u2014 a term that includes cohabiting and married women \u2014 than their single counterparts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pewpartneredwomencollege.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-270493\" width=\"738\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pewpartneredwomencollege.jpg 898w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pewpartneredwomencollege-300x212-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pewpartneredwomencollege-768x544-1.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>But both American college-graduates and non-college-graduates are increasingly less likely to be married in general. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/research\/middle-class-marriage-is-declining-and-likely-deepening-inequality\/\">Pre-lockdowns<\/a>, \u201cmarriage rates among the middle class have declined significantly over the past 40 years and have now fallen below those in the top income quintile.\u201d Lockdowns appear to have amplified this pre-existing trend. A <a href=\"https:\/\/ifstudies.org\/blog\/historic-trends-in-childlessness-and-marriage\">late 2021 report<\/a> showed that both college graduates and non-college graduates are less likely to be married or have children nowadays.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/childlessbyeducation.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-270494\" width=\"763\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/childlessbyeducation.png 640w, https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/childlessbyeducation-300x142.png 300w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Americans have <a href=\"https:\/\/ifstudies.org\/blog\/how-many-kids-do-women-want\">become even more likely<\/a> to delay marriage, which <a href=\"https:\/\/ifstudies.org\/blog\/research-debunks-myth-that-economic-factors-are-driving-falling-birth-rates\">in turn<\/a> delays childbearing and results in greater gaps between the family size women want and the one they end up with: \u201cdelayed marriage and childbirth are preventing more women from having any children at all.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Again, American society seems to be reducing marriage and childbearing as a whole, but this seems to affect Democrat voters <a href=\"https:\/\/ifstudies.org\/ifs-admin\/resources\/reports\/dividedstatereport-final-october2021.pdf\">more<\/a>: \u201csince COVID-19 hit, Republicans have witnessed a greater increase in their desire to marry than Democrats and Independents.\u201d Republicans were the only political group that responded to Covid with a greater desire for children. <\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/figure12-3-w640.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-270495\" width=\"823\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/figure12-3-w640.png 640w, https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/figure12-3-w640-300x166.png 300w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>So singlehood, a general predictor among women of increased vote share for Democrats, is rising, a trend that is likely to increase. Although we don\u2019t have the underlying NBC polling numbers to confirm this, it seems likely this is a large explanatory factor for the college-educated women increasing support for Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the obvious fact that big government functions for some single women as a husband substitute, at least financially, it\u2019s also true that women <a href=\"https:\/\/noahcarl.substack.com\/p\/did-women-in-academia-cause-wokeness?s=r\">respond <\/a>more strongly than men to emotional arguments of harm and victimhood of the kind that the Democrat Party of today specializes in. Women are also on the forefront of making the leftist kind of emotional \u201cgrievance politics\u201d arguments in both academia and the public square, as <a href=\"https:\/\/richardhanania.substack.com\/p\/womens-tears-win-in-the-marketplace?s=r\">Richard Hanania<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/noahcarl.substack.com\/p\/did-women-in-academia-cause-wokeness?s=r\">others <\/a>have noted. <\/p>\n<p>Women are also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC4478054\/\">more susceptible<\/a> to emotional harm than men, and to sympathy for that harm. On the flip side, women also find a great amount of satisfaction and joy in the \u201cemotional labor\u201d of relationship-building that comprises marriage and family formation. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"eMIPscklwn6WATIO2rVSjR6uQbDyRBrfDk1eilmEhf907V9nhuj2EKXxoNHYLysOq3m4iBJFFU75xPdtCQJ\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is disastrous because men\/women who are married with children are markedly more likely to be flourishing today. Data, for instance, from American Family Survey: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PqZomNhLUj\">pic.twitter.com\/PqZomNhLUj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brad Wilcox (@BradWilcoxIFS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BradWilcoxIFS\/status\/1511724713080496138?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Growing families makes women happy, and failing to form families makes women (and men) sad. Given the high and increasing rates of failed family formation in the United States, and we have a recipe for many upset women potentially taking out their private grievances on politics.<\/p>\n<p>This is confirmed by other datapoints. For example, Pew <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eviemagazine.com\/post\/over-50-percent-white-liberal-women-under-30-mental-health-condition\">found <\/a>in 2020 that more than half of white women who identified as political liberals had been diagnosed by a professional with a mental disorder, such as depression or anxiety. <\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"410\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/conservative_liberal_women_mental_health_graph-1024x410-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-270498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/conservative_liberal_women_mental_health_graph-1024x410-1.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/conservative_liberal_women_mental_health_graph-300x120.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/conservative_liberal_women_mental_health_graph-768x308-1.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/conservative_liberal_women_mental_health_graph.jpeg 1200w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>In that 2021 AEI\/IFS\/Wheatley survey, college graduates were only 4 points more likely to express a desire for marriage than those who didn\u2019t graduate college, a serious decline. This may also indicate a current weakness in the \u201cmarried women vote Republican\u201d historical trend, especially when combined with the wild partisanship and feminization of college campuses today.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, according to the Pew data, college graduates \u2014 of both sexes \u2014 voted for Biden over Trump by a 26-point margin. Much of the male portion of that group is ruing their Biden votes, as the new NBC numbers show. So why are lots of men willing to admit that they were wrong in 2020, while the college-educated women as a group are not only not sharing regrets but doubling down?<\/p>\n<p>My answer \u2014 and it has been latent within this discussion the entire time \u2014 is feminism. Not just the ideology, but how that ideology has become systematically embedded within American culture since the 1960s. Just consider the context here: college degrees. <\/p>\n<p>Women have been earning more bachelor\u2019s degrees than men have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/carpe-diem\/stunning-college-degree-gap-women-have-earned-almost-10-million-more-college-degrees-than-men-since-1982\/\">since <\/a>1982. From 1982 to 2013, women earned 10 million more degrees than men did. Not surprisingly, women dominate even more the social science fields that incubate leftist political extremism.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s well-documented that most colleges now function more as political grooming and social signaling centers than centers of learning. College graduates have for some time demonstrated, on average, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Academically-Adrift-Limited-Learning-Campuses\/dp\/0226028569\">no intellectual development<\/a> from attending college, while college attendance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Politics\/2020\/1027\/As-college-grads-flee-the-GOP-political-diploma-divide-grows\">now <em>does <\/em>correlate<\/a> with a massive increase in affiliation with the Democrat Party. <\/p>\n<p>At the same time colleges have become essentially academically worthless, if not toxic, they have become saturated with women, and have increasingly marketed and reorganized themselves in feminine terms. The feminization of our culture led by this academic dominance has fueled popular and pervasive messages of cruel and unrestrained female domination of men, rather than the loving cooperation with men that marriage and family encourage. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_End_of_Men\">The End of Men<\/a>.\u201d \u201cAnything boys can do, girls can do better.\u201d \u201cGirlboss.\u201d \u201cLean In.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Cant like this has been engrained into many women\u2019s very identities today, and purposely, by our deeply feminized education and cultural institutions. By contrast, overfeminization is, naturally, inherently unattractive to most men. <\/p>\n<p>So besides their higher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychnewsdaily.com\/disagreeable-married-men-who-avoid-housework-earn-more-money-new-study-shows\/\">disagreeableness <\/a>as a sex it\u2019s also culturally easier for men to admit they were wrong about who they voted for in 2020. They\u2019re told they\u2019re wrong and dumb constantly, and most men put up with it with astonishing tameness. <\/p>\n<p>But women are not often told they\u2019re wrong about something, if ever. Generally, women are constantly praised for being \u201cstrong\u201d and \u201cbrave,\u201d even when doing something cruel like severing their children from their own father for complaints that <a href=\"https:\/\/aaronrenn.substack.com\/p\/newsletter-11-has-the-church-become?s=r\">usually don\u2019t<\/a> rise to the level of adultery or abuse. <\/p>\n<p>And if college-educated women admit they were wrong about Trump and Biden in 2020, where does it stop? Once \u201cfierce women\u201d admit they could be wrong about something so big as their selection of the president of the formerly free world, that opens the door for being wrong about other big things that contradict their conception of always being right to follow their feelings.<\/p>\n<p>Those could include questions like: Does feminism make women unhappy? What about less marriageable?<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Joy Pullmann is executive editor of The Federalist, a happy wife, and the mother of six children. <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/iX1dsZnedpJjPMoP7\">Sign up here to get early access<\/a> to her next ebook, &#8220;101 Strategies For Living Well Amid Inflation.&#8221; Her bestselling ebook is &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/payhip.com\/b\/R1JL\">Classic Books for Young Children<\/a>.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Pullmann identifies as native American and gender natural. She is also the author of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Education-Invasion-Parents-Control-American\/dp\/1594038813\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1486730068&#038;sr=8-1&#038;keywords=education+invasion\">The Education Invasion: How Common Core Fights Parents for Control of American Kids<\/a>,&#8221; from Encounter Books. In 2013-14 she won a Robert Novak journalism fellowship for in-depth reporting on Common Core national education mandates. <\/p>\n<p>Joy is a grateful graduate of the Hillsdale College honors and journalism programs.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC News recently compared several polls to find huge shifts from Democrats to Republicans in 2022 midterm voter preferences. 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