Article: The Living `Gender Gap'

Every presidential election seems to produce a great, new strategic theory on how candidates can woo and win the hearts of vital elements of the electorate. If only they can reach the "forgotten American," the "silent majority," the "alienated voter," the "young voter," even the "nonvoter," candidates dream, they will sweep to victory.

Nearly all of these strategems prove illusory. Invariably, the electorate fails to perform as anticipated; targeted blocs of voters do not vote as blocs. First-time 18-year-old voters, supposedly more liberal, either don't participate or wind up voting for such conservative candidates as Richard M. Nixon and Ronald Reagan.

Probably the best example of the ...

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