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    Conservative Women Thread a Needle on Brett Kavanaugh

    Polls show a majority of women turning on Kavanaugh, but conservative women continue to support the Supreme Court nominee, even as they express sympathy for victims of sexual assault.
    by Dick Polman Sep 26, 2018 4 minutes
    Source: Jim Bourg / Reuters

    By championing Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump and the Senate GOP have successfully accelerated a female exodus to the Democratic Party on the cusp of the first national elections of the #MeToo era. The latest Fox News poll, released on Sunday, says that burgeoning opposition to Kavanaugh is being driven by suburban women, who believe Christine Blasey Ford over Kavanaugh by a margin of 17 percentage points. The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll says that opposition to Kavanaugh is notably driven by women over the age of 50. In August, their net support for Kavanaugh was +3; now it’s -7.

    All of the polls essentially underscore the GOP’s woes with women voters; indeed, the latest USC Dornsife/ survey, released today, that the Democrats, since midsummer, have gained eight points among white married women (a typically reliable GOP constituency), nine points among suburban women, and 10 points among white noncollege women (a strong 2016 Trump constituency).

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