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This was an election about the marriage gap, not about gender equality.
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This was an election about the marriage gap, not about gender equality.

In the weeks and months leading up to Tuesday’s election, a lot has has been do of the growing gender gap between men and women. Except now that we know the election results, it appears the gender gap has actually narrowed.

In 2020President Joe Biden won women by a 15-point margin, 57% to 42%. This yearVice President Kamala Harris won women by a much smaller 8-point margin, 53% to 45%.

But while the gap between men and women has indeed narrowed this year, another gap has widened. In 2020, married voters narrowly chose President Donald Trump, by a 7-point margin, or 53% to 46%. This year, this margin increased by 13 points, from 56% to 43%.

For all the talk about Trump’s problem with women, Trump actually won married women by three points, 51 to 48. To repeat, Trump won not just a majority of married white women, but a majority of all married women.

Trump also won handily among married men aged 60 to 38 and he even scored a victory among single men aged 49 to 47. Where Trump was crushed was among single women, who chose Harris (who didn’t marry until age 50, by the way) by a 60-38 margin.

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Another observation should worry Republicans, even though they enjoy the support of married men, married women and single men. The fastest growing portion of the electorate is single women. According to exit poll results, for the first time, single women outnumbered married women at the polls, by 27 to 26 percent. Single women have outnumbered single men among voters for years, and that gap has widened this cycle, from 27% to 20%.

If the Republican Party does not reverse the decline of marriage for decadessoon we will all live in a world dominated by single women.