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@Alon @mekkaokereke Arguing “women didn’t tell exit pollsters they voted differently than their husbands” to push back on “some women would be uncomfortable if their husbands knew their real votes” is pretty odd. Such women are unlikely to tell a stranger in public outside a polling place what they wouldn’t tell their husbands!
Would you use an exit poll to see how many women are in abusive relationships as they walked out of a polling place with their partners?

@smach @Alon

There absolutely are women who vote a certain way because they are coerced by their husbands. This happens. 1 in 8 women say they have secretly voted differently than their husbands. 1 in 10 men say they have too.

DV happens. Men are more likely to be abusers than women. I am not saying that DV doesn't happen.

I'm saying that this disproportionate focus on GOP women voters is an attempt to minimize the number of white women that are full participants in bigotry and hate.

@mekkaokereke @Alon I doubt many women *who are afraid* are showing up in that 1 out of 8 statistic. Of course they're still not a majority! But the guerilla campaigns to get women who want to vote differently from their husbands but are afraid are not focused on the majority of WW who want to vote GOP of their own accord. They are unlikely to be persuadable at this point. It's focused on the potentially persuadable.

@mekkaokereke @Alon Many public women's restrooms have flyers about domestic abuse also. No one thinks that a majority of women are being abused.