If men don't vote, Harris wins

It’s Election Day, at last.  Though we don’t know who will win this razor-tight contest, we do know that if V.P. Kamala Harris becomes our next president, it will be because men failed to show up. 

Consider the early voting in Georgia: as of November 4, 2.2 million women had cast ballots, outnumbering male voters by 27%. In North Carolina, similarly, 2.3 million women had voted as of November 2, compared to 1.8 million men. That may be why former President Donald Trump is visiting North Carolina again in the final hours of campaigning – even though polls show him leading in the state. 

Higher voting by women matters because this election shows the greatest gender divide in our history. Men are backing Trump by eight points, according to Pew polling, and women favor Harris by 9 points, a gender gap of 17 points.  The gap gets even wider when further divided by level of education; college-educated women break for Harris by 27 points, while non-college educated men back Trump by 16 points – a gap of 43 points.