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Tweet from @debraj112 11/27/19 12:51PM
“Although her father was supportive, Christine Blasey-Ford’s father emailed Kavanaugh’s father, saying the hearings were hard on both families & that he was glad Brett got confirmed. Dr Ford’s father & Brett Kavanaugh’s father were golfing buddies at the club. Patriarchy.”
Bastard! Impeach Him!
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They also influenced the 2018 midterms, according to a new survey.
People thought Ford told the truth
By a margin of sixteen points, according to PerryUndem. That number had risen by nine points, since Quinnipiac conducted a poll immediately after the hearing. PerryUndem's data also suggests that half of voters thought Kavanaugh lied under oath about his conduct when he was a teenager. As a reference, the firm cites Gallup's report suggesting that Anita Hill's 1991 testimony that Clarence Thomas sexually harassed her actually made people support him more. After the testimony, 58 percent of Americans said they were in favor of the Senate confirming Thomas and just 30 percent were opposed to his confirmation.
The hearing influenced the 2018 midterms
Those who felt unfavorably toward Justice Kavanaugh were motivated to vote for Democratic candidates for U.S. House of Representatives, "above and beyond typical factors, such as party affiliation," PerryUndem concludes.
While feeling favorably toward Justice Kavanaugh also influenced voting for the Republican candidate, 50 percent of voters thought about "disproportionate representations of power in government" and were twice as likely to vote Democrat as a result.
Republican men "reverted" in their views toward women
Specifically, the Kavanaugh hearing made Republican men more sexist. The hearing caused "increased hostile sexism" among voters, according to PerryUndem. In 2016, 44 percent of Republican men agreed that most women interpret "innocent remarks or acts as being sexist," according to PerryUndem. That number rose to 47 percent in 2017 and, after Kavanaugh, is now at 68 percent.
According to the firm's data, fewer than half of Republican men consider sexism a problem in our society. That number is way down from 63 percent in 2017.
Republican men are also less likely to believe women alleging sexual harassment
In 2017, 80 percent of Republican men were more likely to believe women who made allegations of sexual harassment or sexual assault over the men denying the allegations. After Kavanaugh, that number dropped to 59 percent.
"Hostile sexism is correlated with believing Justice Kavanaugh's denial," according to PerryUndem. "About seven in ten respondents who say they believe Justice Kavanaugh agree that, 'most women interpret innocent remarks or acts as being sexist.'"
Republican women are more skeptical of male leadership
There is one hopeful bit of data to come from PerryUndem's survey. According to the firm, Republican women may have been affected by the hearings differently than Republican men. In 2016, 31 percent of Republican women felt men made better politicians than women. After Kavanaugh, that number dropped to 11 percent.
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