In theory, 244 million citizens qualify to vote in the next United States presidential election. There is a lot of talk about a technical tie and extreme polarization in two halves. In practice, this means that on November 5, approximately 30% of registered voters will vote in favor of Donald Trump, 30% will support Kamala Harris and a shrinking 40% will abstain. With those numbers and its peculiar electoral system, it is not unreasonable to think that the next occupant of the White House will really be decided by 120,000 votes. With these margins of victory, the cliché that every last ballot counts is back in fashion in the American electoral battle. Hence the importance of the striking gender gap that is turning these elections into a reissue of Venus against Mars. Trump probably has 60% of the male vote and Harris with 60% of the female vote. A difference that is especially evident among the younger generations. As in other Western democracies, boys and girls do not vote the same. In the United States, the electoral gender gap reflects a decade of social unrest, ranging from #MeToo to the removal of abortion from federal jurisdiction. Kamala Harris, the first woman of color to win the presidential nomination and the second to come so close to “Madam President,” has done her best to avoid the issue in her campaign deliberately constructed beyond gender and race. The million dollar question is still whether Hillary Clinton lost to Trump eight years ago because she was a woman or because she was Hillary Clinton. Related News report Yes Trump’s immigration revolution: jail and mass expulsions led by Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio David Alandete | Special envoy to Phoenix (Arizona) Sheriff Joe Arpaio, mentor of the Republican candidate, explains to ABC in Arizona his plans to shield the US after the elections In contrast, the old and young threatened masculinities see in Donald Trump a species of Berlusconi-style vindication. The big problem with all this symbolic contempt for women is that the orange “Mucho Macho Man” does not exercise hidden sexism, but is condemned to pay more than 80 million dollars for sexual abuse and defamation.
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