A weird phenomenon is starting to show itself in Canadian public opinion polls.

When you ask a man who’s their favorite prime minister, they answer by a wide margin:.this guy (Conservative Pierre Poilievre).  When you ask women, the answer also by quite a large margin is: this guy (Liberal Justin Trudeau).

There’s always been a gender gap in Canadian political opinions. Generally, ladies lean progressives and dudes lean conservative. That’s why, after women got the vote in 1918, you suddenly got a whole bunch of progressive policy, like prohibition. But the gender gap is starting to get ridiculous.

This chart from an Angus Reid Institute poll shows the voting intentions of men under age 35.  That’s an huge showing for the conservatives, more than enough to give them a majority government, if only young men were voting.  When you look at the under 35 women, they want a majority NDP governement with the Tories in third place.

It’s not entirely clear how things got this way.  But if these trends continue, pretty soon we”ll just have elections contested by the men party against the women party.

via Science Matters

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March 23, 2023 at 11:01AM