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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-a-goodman/new-hampshire-women-chose-bernie-sanders_b_9200174.html
New Hampshire Women Chose Bernie Sanders in a Landslide, Not Hillary Clinton
The win for Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire isn’t only enormous in terms of momentum, it undermines the foundation of Hillary Clinton’s campaign. NBC News reports 55% of female voters in New Hampshire chose Bernie Sanders, while 44% voted for Clinton. As potentially the first female president, Clinton still lost the women’s vote to Sanders.
The 74 year old’s lead among a demographic vital to Clinton’s campaign is highlighted in a Bustle article titled Bernie Sanders Wins Women’s Vote In New Hampshire & Beats Hillary Clinton On The Gender Turf:
Early reports about the voter breakdown in the New Hampshire Democratic primary may surprise some poll watchers: not only did Bernie Sanders win the New Hampshire Democratic primary, trouncing Hillary Clinton in a landslide...
Sanders won 53 percent of the female vote compared to Clinton’s 46 percent, according to exit poll analysis by ABC News. Among young women, Sanders’ numbers were even higher: 69 percent of Democratic women under 45 backed him in the primary, a statistic which includes 82 percent of female primary voters under the age of 30...
However, poor polling among younger voters, as well as the media firestorm ignited by highly controversial remarks by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and feminist activist Gloria Steinem made about women who opt not to vote for Clinton, have made many who assumed Clinton was a sure win among female Democrats second-guessing.
While the New Hampshire win showed that Clinton was extremely vulnerable among white voters (61% voted for Sanders while 37% voted for Clinton), it also proved women throughout the nation might also choose Sanders over the former Secretary of State.
An important statistic, and one that could factor enormously in a general election, is that “69 percent of Democratic women under 45 backed him in the primary.”
When almost 70% of New Hampshire women under 45 vote for Bernie rather than Hillary, American politics is experiencing a revolution led by female voters.
Furthermore, the lead exhibited by Bernie Sanders among New Hampshire’s female voters was foreshadowed by a Think Progress piece titled New Hampshire Women Say They’re Voting Based On Policy, Not Gender: