DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Democrats are banking on a surge of female candidates to help them recapture the House of Representatives this November. But Democrats may not benefit as much as they hope from this dynamic unless their historic roster of female nominees can help the party solve its greatest remaining challenge with female voters. To talk of a Democratic challenge with female voters may seem somewhat jarring. Polls during Donald Trump’s presidency consistently show a huge gender gap, with women routinely expressing more negative views than men of Trump’s performance, and a greater preference for Democrats in Congress. Big segments of the female population — including African-American, millennial and college-educated white women — are displaying towering levels of discontent with Trump. Yet that overall advantage for Democrats masks a continuing problem among one key group of female voters: white women without a college education. Strong support from those blue-collar white women was key to Trump’s victory in 2016, particularly in decisive Rust Belt states such as Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.”
-Ronald Brownstein, “Women are the wave, but also the wall, for Democrats in 2018,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, June 19, 2018 6:53 am