Other than whites, the other big voting bloc going unnoticed for the 2016 U.S. general election is men. As a study from the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University has shown, substantial gender differences in voter turnout have emerged since 1980: “In every presidential election since 1980, the proportion of eligible female adults who voted has exceeded the proportion of eligible male adults who voted. In all presidential elections prior to 1980, the voter turnout rate for women was lower than the rate for men.” In 1980, the gender gap was negligible.  The voting rate for men was 61.5 percent, and for women it was 61.9 percent.  The gap has progressively widened over the last 9 elections to nearly 4 percent.  Most notably, the male voting rate has actually declined by nearly 2 percent over this time, whereas it increased by almost 2 percent for women. Males are getting turned off from voting, undoubtedly because parties take...(Read Full Post)