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Why Some Republican Women Are Voting for Hillary Clinton
They hate Donald Trump’s misogyny. They like that the left can’t stand her. And maybe a few have warmed up to Hillary Clinton herself.
By Michelle Goldberg
When Eleanor Schiff, a former domestic policy staffer in George W. Bush’s White House, contemplates her impending vote for Hillary Clinton, she says she’s “stunned.” “If you told me a year ago that I’d be voting for her, I’d say there’s no way,” Schiff tells me. “But I feel that I have to. She’ll do the job. She’s eminently qualified.”
There are a number of Republicans so horrified by Donald Trump that they’re supporting Clinton, the GOP’s longtime nemesis. According to Politico, more GOP defectors are set to go public this week, and the Clinton campaign will soon roll out an official Republicans for Clinton organization to mobilize them.
Crucial to this mini-movement are Republican women. In this election, much has been said about the surge of blue-collar men towards Donald Trump. At least as significant, however, has been the rush of white-collar women away from him. According to a new Monmouth University poll, college-educated white women prefer Clinton to Trump by 30 percentage points, 57 percent to 27 percent. (In 2012, Mitt Romney won this demographic by 6 percentage points, 52 percent to 46 percent.) “I think much of that is Republican women voters who simply can’t vote for someone so vile towards women as Donald Trump,” says Meghan Milloy, an employee at a right-leaning think tank who also serves as chairwoman of the group Republican Women for Hillary.
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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/08/why_some_republican_women_are_voting_for_hillary_clinton.html
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