2024-10-24
12 分钟Good morning.
It's Thursday, October 24th.
I'm Sumita Basu.
This is Apple News Today.
On today's show, the oil industry's blueprint to roll back climate regulations, the surprising decline in college enrollment, and how the 12 foot skeleton disrupted the Halloween market.
But first, we're in the final stretch of the presidential campaigns, and one of the biggest divisions in this election is almost surely going to fall along gender lines.
In recent national polling, Harris is leading with women anywhere from 13 to 16%.
Trump, on the other hand, is leading among men anywhere from high single digits to up to 16 points overall.
Now, it's typical that we see gender gaps between the parties in presidential elections, but if these current numbers hold, the spread could be historic.
With me to explain what all of this means is my colleague Gideon Resnick.
Hey, Gideon.
Hey, Shmita.
So first, what do we know is accounting for this huge spread between men and women?
There are a lot of factors here.
First, to state the obvious, Harris is a woman.
And if she wins, she will be the first woman president.
And the Harris campaign is trying to make her candidacy a referendum on reproductive rights, which does seem to be resonating with women voters.
The message is effectively, Republicans do not trust you to make your own decisions, but Democrats do.
And you'll hear Harris and her campaign talking about this in the context of freedom, which is something that they've been driving home consistently.
And they look at places like Michigan, where abortion was on the ballot in the same election cycle as Governor Gretchen Whitmer when she was up for reelection in 2022.