It’s gonna take Salon some time to get over Wendy Davis cementing her loser status. Their butthurt goes so deep, they’ll seize on any excuse they can to explain what’s happened.
Here’s a recent one:
White women didn't just fail Wendy Davis – they failed the rest of Texas, too http://t.co/quMNfECw5Z pic.twitter.com/iiGstmkRP6
— Salon (@Salon) November 6, 2014
As Salon super-feminist Jenny Kutner explains, Wendy Davis lost because white women. No, really. Just look at the data and stuff:
I went to the Texas Tribune first for a dissection of the election results, and one piece of information struck me as particularly… wrong. The Tribune cited CNN exit polls to illustrate the landslide, saying Abbott “beat Davis by lopsided margins with white voters (72-27), men (65-34) and women (52-47). Davis beat Abbott among Latinos (57-42) and African-Americans (93-7).” Last time I checked, though, there were thousands upon thousands of women in Texas considered Latina and African-American — what about their votes?
As RH Reality Check’s Andrea Grimes reports, their votes were solidly in Davis’ favor: 94 percent of black women and 61 percent of Latinas voted for her. Only 32 percent of white women did. That’s certainly not enough women to say that Abbott won the whole gender (though that’s a ludicrous statement in the first place). It seems to be enough, though, to result in the erasure of votes from women of color, Grimes notes:
You’ll hear that Greg Abbott “carried” women voters in Texas. Anyone who says that is also saying this: that Black women and Latinas are not “women,” and that carrying white women is enough to make the blanket statement that Abbott carried all women. That women generally failed to vote for Wendy Davis. As if women of color are some separate entity, some mysterious other, some bizarre demographic of not-women. […]
So, in other words, just because a majority of Texas women voted for Greg Abbott … doesn’t mean Greg Abbott won the female vote? For what it’s worth, that’s what Kutner’s pal, political reporter Andrea Grimes, is going with, too.
https://twitter.com/andreagrimes/status/530414713859887104
https://twitter.com/andreagrimes/status/530414998976073728
https://twitter.com/andreagrimes/status/530417854165049345
https://twitter.com/andreagrimes/status/530419122023047168
https://twitter.com/andreagrimes/status/530423369473490944
https://twitter.com/andreagrimes/status/530442535421087744
Well, maybe if she’d elaborate on “this crisis of empathy thing” …
https://twitter.com/andreagrimes/status/530457965250482178
https://twitter.com/andreagrimes/status/530462753795100674
Welp, at least she tried, right?
https://twitter.com/twhit210/status/530459411597496320
She may be stuck in her precious little bubble, but there are plenty of people who aren’t.
.@andreagrimes When people on both sides are telling you what you wrote was wrong and stupid, it's not a reading comprehension issue.
— (((AG))) (@AGHamilton29) November 6, 2014
Ahem:
@lachlan I'm left of Marx but hooooo boy
— Paul Elliott Johnson (@RhetoricPJ) November 6, 2014
We're going to have to agree to disagree on whether 52 is greater than or less than 47 http://t.co/8BBC6QXfnJ
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) November 6, 2014
Heh.
https://twitter.com/andreagrimes/status/530456151344050176
Oh, honey. No. Just do yourself a favor and stahp.
@andreagrimes "quibble about math?" Does the concept of "majority of women" no longer exist?
— David Schumann (@dschumann0) November 6, 2014
https://twitter.com/RepRepublic/status/530461694376828930
https://twitter.com/Coondawg68/status/530461084210458624
No empathy for Texas white women voters tho, right? #AllWomen https://t.co/Q8QU4S7JWI @andreagrimes
— Michelle Lancaster (@CyFitFreedom) November 6, 2014
Apparently not.
https://twitter.com/ashtenthinks/status/530468168956137473
https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/530463016610177024
https://twitter.com/chuck_dizzle/status/530461912044437504
https://twitter.com/Matthops82/status/530463184466214912
https://twitter.com/JayCaruso/status/530460498844991488
Except when it’s this:
https://twitter.com/Aaron_RS/status/530463530789912576
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