Michael Tesler, associate professor of political science at UC Irvine, [writes:] There were countless stories this campaign about Donald Trump’s ostensibly insurmountable gender gap. ... After all, several surveys as recently as a few weeks ago showed Trump losing female voters by an average of 20 percentage points – a record deficit that would have been virtually impossible to overcome if it had held. But, of course, female voters did not provide Hillary Clinton with such a decisive victory.

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