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Article: The Living `Gender Gap'
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- September 2, 1987
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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 ...