Women biologically just tend to put their emotions before rational thought. It's what helps them do their natural role of being nurturing, caring, and keeping social ties together a lot better than men (as much as feminism tries to push these things aside). However, this rolls over into our government, where women will often vote on emotion or for leftists social issues rather than for things that truly matter in the grand scheme of our world and country. At least in many instances, if a woman's husband is more informed politically, she'll vote with him or take up his positions. However, single women is a completely different story.
I'm a female Trump voter. Suburban mom, former soccer mom, former corporate executive and current small business owner. I've been politically tuned in since I was in grade school watching Watergate hearings in the living room with my Mom. I went to a women's college - steeped in women's studies and followed the Iran-Contra hearings while Walter Mondale & Geraldine Ferraro came to our campus and convinced all of us that voting Democrat was our future. Which is what I did until the last term of President Clinton where I was fed up with the absolute abuse of his office and the circus around his investigation.
I absolutely agree about the emotional side of why women vote the way we do. But men also vote with emotion too - they are just emotional and pumped up about different things. With conservative men, it centers around how invasive is government on his own domain - i.e. gun rights, taxes, infringement on religious beliefs, or conforming to laws that may inhibit his personal freedoms or job prospects. With conservative women, it centers around education for children, maintaining a secure environment for family. If Trump can convince the 'squishes' that he has these in his sights he can win over more suburban moms. Trust me, suburban moms are some of the best influencers in our political landscape today!
Women biologically just tend to put their emotions before rational thought. It's what helps them do their natural role of being nurturing, caring, and keeping social ties together a lot better than men (as much as feminism tries to push these things aside). However, this rolls over into our government, where women will often vote on emotion or for leftists social issues rather than for things that truly matter in the grand scheme of our world and country. At least in many instances, if a woman's husband is more informed politically, she'll vote with him or take up his positions. However, single women is a completely different story.
I'm a female Trump voter. Suburban mom, former soccer mom, former corporate executive and current small business owner. I've been politically tuned in since I was in grade school watching Watergate hearings in the living room with my Mom. I went to a women's college - steeped in women's studies and followed the Iran-Contra hearings while Walter Mondale & Geraldine Ferraro came to our campus and convinced all of us that voting Democrat was our future. Which is what I did until the last term of President Clinton where I was fed up with the absolute abuse of his office and the circus around his investigation.
I absolutely agree about the emotional side of why women vote the way we do. But men also vote with emotion too - they are just emotional and pumped up about different things. With conservative men, it centers around how invasive is government on his own domain - i.e. gun rights, taxes, infringement on religious beliefs, or conforming to laws that may inhibit his personal freedoms or job prospects. With conservative women, it centers around education for children, maintaining a secure environment for family. If Trump can convince the 'squishes' that he has these in his sights he can win over more suburban moms. Trust me, suburban moms are some of the best influencers in our political landscape today!