Colorado Poll Shows Hillary Clinton has a Gender Gap Problem

One irony the latest Quinnipiac Colorado poll shows is that the more Hillary Clinton plays the gender card, and it is now one of her main strategies, she is alienating men more than convincing women. Possibly that is just a Colorado phenomenon because that was the reaction to the Democrats’ gender war strategy observed in the 2014 Udall senate race in Colorado. The more Mark Udall talked about war on women issues, the more he lost men. Polls in October 2014 repeatedly showed a negative gender gap, with him losing more men than gaining women.

Likewise, Clinton, who is losing to Jeb Bush by 5 points, is as expected winning women by 12 points. But, due to her losing men to Bush by 23 points, the gender gap is a negative 11 points for her. (A quarter of the electorate told pollsters they didn’t know, wouldn’t vote or preferred someone else.)

The Quinnipiac poll gathered national attention as Clinton ran behind three top republican contenders. In Colorado, Jeb Bush beat Clinton by 5 points. He was the weakest among the candidates tested. Scott Walker beat Clinton by 9 percentage points. But their face-off shows the same gender patterns. Clinton wins women by 11 percent and loses men by 28 percent.

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