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How do gender *and* age shape the electoral college?

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Carl Beijer
Oct 12, 2016
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Yesterday, Nate Silver posted a widely-disseminated article aspiring to show how the 2016 election would play out if only men or women voted. Predictably, the election swings deep blue when only women vote, and bright red when only men vote. Out of curiosity, I used Reuter’s new States of the Nation tool to take a quick look at this year’s age gap, and …

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