For one thing, there was a woman candidate for president - Hillary Clinton - and you would expect that women would come out in record numbers to vote for her but they didn't. Actually, more women voted for Donald Trump than voted for Hillary.
Consider Hillary. she had seen the White House close up as First Lady. She had been a Senator noted for stretching across the aisle. She worked on children's causes all her adult life, including writing a book about "It Takes A Village To Raise A Child," and she certainly was all for the children's health program SCHIP though she pushed it from the White House and not Congress.*
For reasons I do not understand, Hillary got a bad press. For example, they say she lost Wisconsin because she did not personally campaign there. OK, but what about Michigan and Pennsylvania? You don't hear about these two states.
Michigan was ungrateful to Hillary in voting for Trump over Hillary. Hillary helped the people of Flint, MI, during the water crisis: Mayor Karen Weaver thanked Hillary Clinton, saying the former Secretary of State's concern over the city's water crisis helped spur government action for the residents of Flint.** Hillary also campaigned in Detroit and voted to save the automobile industry.*** The money was there, and had to be released in order to save the American auto industry and four million jobs, and to begin the restructuring. We had the best year that the auto industry has had in a long time. I voted to save the auto industry. *** She also noted that in Michigan, she had about 140 more staffers on the ground than Obama in 2012, spent 166% more on TV ads, and made seven visits during the general election campaign./****
Hillary made a special effort in Pennsylvania but still had a narrow loss.
The former secretary of state wrote that in Pennsylvania, her team had 120 more staffers on the ground than President Barack Obama did four years earlier and spent 211% more on TV ads. She noted that she held more than 25 campaign events in the Keystone State while having major surrogates like Obama and Vice President Joe Biden make appearances as well.****Undoubtedly there is a strange case among some women that women shouldn't have a woman president for various reasons [There was a women's organization in Switzerland (Frauen Verein) who voted against women having the right to vote.]. But I'm sure that the women who would like a woman president greatly outnumber them. There were women who thought they would like a woman president, just not this woman. If women thought Hillary was an SOB, well, if she was a man, other men would say "Yes, he is an SOB but he is our SOB. Why couldn't women do that?
But there were also those who wouldn't vote for her because she didn't divorce her husband, Bill, for his philandering. I presume these are younger women that are unaware of the complexity of married couples. There are many couples who put up with philandering mates (usually men but some women also). Among the reasons may be religion, or the marriage vows, or wealth, or political talent (that may be the case with Hillary).
She was such a threat that Republicans attacked her for 25 yrs. Apparently, it worked.
I'm still having a hard time getting over her loss.
* https://www.factcheck.org/2008/03/giving-hillary-credit-for-schip/
http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2018/03/hillarys-problem.html
** https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2016/02/flint_mayor_credits_hillary_cl.html
*** https://www.c-span.org/video/?418008-1/hillary-clinton-campaigns-detroit-michigan
https://uaw.org/uaw-member-lloyd-allen-hillary-voting-save-auto-industry
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/03/07/bernie_sanders_vs_hillary_clinton_on_wall_street_bailout_support_excuse_me_im_talking.html\
**** https://www.businessinsider.com/hillary-clinton-pennsylvania-michigan-wisconsin-what-happened-2017-9
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