I think I recall you way back then expressing worry about how some people in a newsroom focus group were somehow more aware of Wikileaks stuff than Trump's candid dishing on his sexual harassment game.
Correct. I predicted Wikileaks would have more impact on Hillary than the Access Hollywood tape would on Trump. Nonetheless, I don't recall open displays of voter sexism or hand-wringing by Hillary's campaign that she didn't think large numbers of voters wouldn't vote for her because she's a woman.
They were more subtle I think. They portrayed her as man-ish, a shrew, a snarling cur, and an alcoholic (which is only an object of mockery for those people when it's a woman).
Yes I do remember that. But again, I'm asking specifically about voters expressing reticence in voting for a woman.....or Hillary's campaign expressing that it was a concern that people wouldn't vote for a woman the way some in Harris's campaign is now. I don't recall those conversations eight years ago.
The typical 2016 Hillary voter in my experience started out by saying, тАЬSheтАЩs not really my first choice, but I guess we have to vote for her.тАЭ I do recall one white female friend (a friend since childhood and ex-gf with an abusive mother who is now in a long term lesbian relationship) who expressed that they were voting for Trump in part because Hillary was a woman.
If that's true, it wasn't on my radar at all in 2016.
I think I recall you way back then expressing worry about how some people in a newsroom focus group were somehow more aware of Wikileaks stuff than Trump's candid dishing on his sexual harassment game.
Correct. I predicted Wikileaks would have more impact on Hillary than the Access Hollywood tape would on Trump. Nonetheless, I don't recall open displays of voter sexism or hand-wringing by Hillary's campaign that she didn't think large numbers of voters wouldn't vote for her because she's a woman.
They were more subtle I think. They portrayed her as man-ish, a shrew, a snarling cur, and an alcoholic (which is only an object of mockery for those people when it's a woman).
Remember Trump saying she was a "nasty woman"?
Yes I do remember that. But again, I'm asking specifically about voters expressing reticence in voting for a woman.....or Hillary's campaign expressing that it was a concern that people wouldn't vote for a woman the way some in Harris's campaign is now. I don't recall those conversations eight years ago.
Like I said...There were all kinds of questions about that in the media, for example.
To the extent it seems more pronounced in 2024, it could be because 2016 made it an open question because how else could he have won that year?
The typical 2016 Hillary voter in my experience started out by saying, тАЬSheтАЩs not really my first choice, but I guess we have to vote for her.тАЭ I do recall one white female friend (a friend since childhood and ex-gf with an abusive mother who is now in a long term lesbian relationship) who expressed that they were voting for Trump in part because Hillary was a woman.
Wow!