It's Thursday, October 17, 2024. I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Well, as you look at the political landscape in the United States, there are some big developments

and in some sense there are some big new developments.

And if anything, one of the biggest

and the newest developments is the absolute divide sociologically speaking they

would say the absolute salience of the difference between men and women when it comes to voting projections

especially in the presidential election but frankly politically across the

board. So for instance yesterday you had a front page headline in the Wall Street Journal,

Gender Gap is defining feature of deadlocked Trump Harris race.

Now I began by saying this is new and it is new in one sense it's at least newly acute or newly

exaggerated but it's not entirely new because there have been differences

between the voting patterns of men and women for some time.

Now, perhaps we need to step back for a moment and say,

let's just think for a moment.

Let's just think.

If you are looking at a distinction between men and women voting patterns, what would that distinction be?

Well I think that some people would say, well women might be more conservative than men.

Men might be more inclined to say more liberal positions. Now there are liberal men and

there are conservative women but the reality is the big trend right now is that

women tend or at least you say the women's vote tends to be more liberal and increasingly,

markedly more liberal than the male vote.

And then you ask the question, why would this be so?

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