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Nate Silver on the Massive 'Gender Gap'

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Testy Toad T10/22/2012 1:28:09 pm PDT

re: #14 Killgore Trout

So basically, the gender gap may not help Obama.

What would it even mean for a gender gap to help or hurt a candidate? It can correctly be stated that it’s not a universally positive sign for Obama for such a gap to exist, but the implied causality in your phrasing seems unfounded.