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conradfr | on: Trump wins presidency for second time
But how Obama and Biden got elected then?
manquer | parent
They were both men, it should be obvious .

Misogynistic was my first qualifier, it is not an coincidence that Trump has won only against women twice, and it is not an oversight that in 250 years America is nowhere close to electing a woman president.

conradfr | root | parent | next
That's a good point, although it was projected he would win against Biden.
manquer | root | parent
Perhaps he may have, however June polls not a good indicator, it is lifetime away from November elections, politicians have recovered from such gaps.
mvdtnz | root | parent
But they weren't running against women.
manquer | root | parent
Technically Obama was running against one, McCain had Palin on the ticket .I don’t think that made a difference, VPs don’t .

misogyny is hardly the only factor but if there was woman on the top of the ticket than it absolutely seem to be number one factor .

You have to keep in mind it just wasn’t symbolic like in 2016. There are real tangible immediate threats to reproductive healthcare that this election also represented.

mvdtnz | root | parent
> misogyny is hardly the only factor but if there was woman on the top of the ticket than it absolutely seem to be number one factor .

You're going to need to show your working here. How'd you get to this conclusion?

manquer | root | parent
I would have thought the data is self evident, here you go.

Women account for 51.1% population .

There are 25(15D:9R) female senators (25%)

There are 126(92D:34R) congresswomen (29%)

There are 2424 (1583D:815R) female state legislators (32.3%).

In addition to be poorly represented they are mostly democrats with 2-3:1 split from republicans.

It is important to note that ratio grows poorer higher the office , beyond senate it is 45:1 for VPs historically and 46:0 for presidency .

Given the higher life expectancy for women and fact that political office comes late in life they should be if anything more than 50% if gender does not play a significant role.

if not misogyny then it is on you to show why either women are specifically unqualified(!) or unwilling or uninterested in public office and why republican women in office are disproportionately missing in what is already low numbers