The Times is backing the Remain campaign. On the front page of today’s edition the leading article bore the headline, ‘Final polls leave Britain’s future on a knife edge’. It reports the results of a poll the paper commissioned from YouGov, and includes this:
The survey suggests that most men will vote to Leave, with a majority of women opting to Remain.
This is predictable, in part due to what is known about the gendered nature of risk aversion – though many would say ‘Remain’ is a riskier option, in the longer term, than ‘Leave’ – but will sufficient women have voted today to push the ‘Remain’ campaign to victory? We’ll soon know. In recent weeks I’ve found MRAs mostly in the ‘Leave’ camp, by a large majority.
This may be a harbinger for a Trump victory. Men are turning out in sufficient numbers to overcome the female majority. Just maybe the beast has been awakened.
I understand the proportion of women who vote is generally less than the proportion of men who vote, this must have an impact.
“will sufficient women have voted today to push the ‘Remain’ campaign to victory?”
There are more female voters than male, so whoever they support is more likely to win as a result.
Voted Leave because I want to see equality law scaled back to the US level.