At New York Women in Communications, we aren’t endorsing a candidate, but we are watching closely this historic race. What we saw with last night’s results in Texas and Ohio were trends that closely match up with the results of the national survey we conducted in December.
Compare the findings below from our survey with the following quote from the New York Times, and you see that the pieces were in place then for women and Hispanics to favor Hillary in matters of economics and education:
“Just 17 percent of women (compared to 14 percent of men) say they would be more likely to vote for the female if they liked a male and a female candidate equally. Yet, when asked about specifics, over one-third of women (36 percent) say they would support a female seeking public office due to her perceived strength on issues like education and health care. For black and Hispanic voters, the figure is even higher, with 41 percent of black voters and 45 percent of Hispanics saying a female candidate deserves their vote on the issues. And though only 20 percent of all respondents say they would support a woman as a historical precedent, 36 percent of Hispanic voters and an identical percentage of those 18 to 24 say they would support a woman in order to ‘make history.’”
From the New York Times:
“Surveys of voters leaving the polls showed Mrs. Clinton doing well among Hispanics in Texas, a major target for her there, as well as among lower-income voters and women in Ohio, suggesting that she was reassembling the coalition that had broken down in her losing 11 straight state contests to Mr. Obama over the past month. Mr. Obama was showing strength among black voters who made up 20 percent of the Democratic electorate in both states.“In Ohio, Mrs. Clinton’s emphasis on economic issues helped her to some extent. Three-quarters of respondents said they were concerned about their families’ financial situation, and more than half of those voted for Mrs. Clinton. She also won a majority of union households in Ohio and, in a reversal of her standing in early races, won decisively among white men.”
We still don’t know if a woman can win, but we know she can make a comeback.
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