Lakhota
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Trumpās comments on women give her an opening.
Should Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton emerge victorious on Tuesday, it will be thanks to female voters, who are poised to perhaps deliver the largest ballot gender gap in U.S. presidential election history.
But that doesnāt mean her campaign is writing off men. In fact, as CBSās John Dickerson noted in a recent piece, Clinton is making a strategic play to turn out a specific subset of the male vote.
The campaign has been targeting dads, trying to turn GOP nominee Donald Trumpās history of misogyny against him by appealing specifically to fathers of daughters.
This Sunday night, Clinton will put some money behind the effort. The campaign will run two television advertisements during the Sunday Night Football game. One ad features the testimonial of a father, the other that of a grandfather, each of whom is a Republican explaining that Trumpās remarks about women have forced them to vote Democrat this cycle.
Clinton wonāt end up winning the male vote. But her campaignās goal is to soften Trumpās margin here. And they sense a vulnerability for the Republican nominee among those men who not only are politically moderate but have been disturbed by Trumpās remarks at a visceral level. As Dickerson reported:
Hillary Clinton Targets The Dad Vote In A Sunday Night Football Ad Blitz
Sounds good. Dads should be alarmed by Trump's misogynistic and vulgar comments about women. Also, it should be a good game between the Denver Broncos at Oakland Raiders (both teams are 6-2).
Should Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton emerge victorious on Tuesday, it will be thanks to female voters, who are poised to perhaps deliver the largest ballot gender gap in U.S. presidential election history.
But that doesnāt mean her campaign is writing off men. In fact, as CBSās John Dickerson noted in a recent piece, Clinton is making a strategic play to turn out a specific subset of the male vote.
The campaign has been targeting dads, trying to turn GOP nominee Donald Trumpās history of misogyny against him by appealing specifically to fathers of daughters.
This Sunday night, Clinton will put some money behind the effort. The campaign will run two television advertisements during the Sunday Night Football game. One ad features the testimonial of a father, the other that of a grandfather, each of whom is a Republican explaining that Trumpās remarks about women have forced them to vote Democrat this cycle.
Clinton wonāt end up winning the male vote. But her campaignās goal is to soften Trumpās margin here. And they sense a vulnerability for the Republican nominee among those men who not only are politically moderate but have been disturbed by Trumpās remarks at a visceral level. As Dickerson reported:
[Clintonās camp was] surprised to learn that fathers were reacting strongly to Trumpās comments. To experiment with their finding, they sent out four different family-related messages to voters in target areas. They called it their ādivisiveness track,ā targeting voters who might be moved by hearing Donald Trumpās words. What they had seen in surveys and focus groups was reaffirmed in the field: fathers were moved away from Trump by the message. The Clinton campaign even saw movement among the voting bloc that Clinton has had the most trouble reaching ā the white non-college-educated voters.
Hillary Clinton Targets The Dad Vote In A Sunday Night Football Ad Blitz
Sounds good. Dads should be alarmed by Trump's misogynistic and vulgar comments about women. Also, it should be a good game between the Denver Broncos at Oakland Raiders (both teams are 6-2).