[PEN-L:4024] Re: The Green Machine

[kelley]

At 11:57 AM 11/6/00 -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
>Max Sawicky wrote:
>
>>4.  The Greens don't have many blacks, but I predict that will
>>change.
>
>The NYT/CBS poll in today's paper has Nader's black support at 4%, right 
>in line with the national average. (This is a "likely voter" poll.) Men 
>are 6% for Ralph, and women at 4%. Given that the gender gap usually has 
>women favoring the more leftish candidate, this is exactly the reverse of 
>what it should be. But, the gender gap between Bush & Gore is surprisingly 
>narrow (don't have the paper here, and the numbers aren't on their 
>website, otherwise I'd quote numbers). In '96, women voted 54/38 for 
>Clinton over Dole; now, Gore's advantage is just a couple of points. Does 
>this mean the Roe v Wade tactic isn't working?

there was never much of a gender gap to begin with.  what was observed was 
a shift to the right on the part of men.