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Many expected that a political gender gap in favor of Kamala Harris would counterbalance her weaknesses in other parts of the electorate and help Harris win. Elaine Kamarck discusses why this ultimately did not come to pass, including the role of ballot initiatives on abortion and Donald Trump’s position on a federal abortion ban.
“Although Harris fared much better among women than men, according to election exit polls, she ended up doing no better than Biden with women. That torpedoed her strategy of emphasizing reproductive rights—and in the end helped to elect Donald Trump.”
— Elaine Kamarck
More research and commentary
Why everyone exaggerates climate finance. Are countries overstating how much money they need to tackle the climate crisis? Rahul Tongia explains what is happening and argues that overstating the numbers leads to unachievable targets and distracts from where efforts should be focused.
The value of dynamic scoring for legislators. On a new episode of the Brookings Podcast on Economic Activity, Wendy Edelberg, Douglas Elmendorf, and R. Glenn Hubbard explore how nonpartisan agencies estimate the potential economic impacts of legislation under consideration by Congress and the tradeoffs between different techniques for evaluation.
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