WaPo’s Cillizza: ‘Stunning’ Clinton Lost Women by So Many Points

‘The only story line that was out there was the Madeline Albright comments were not the best way that the Clinton would have liked that message presented’

MITCHELL: “And Chris Cillizza, when you look at these numbers, how did her message not resonate with women and what is the tune-out with younger women and younger voters in general?”
CILLIZZA: “Well, I think there’s a big concentric circle between age and gender, at least. When you lose 18 to 29-year-olds by 70 points which she essentially did, 83-16 was the final number, you’re going to lose every demographic group that touches on that, young women. The women number more broadly, Andrea, I do feel like it’s a deja vu situation all over again in some ways. I remember you and I talking about this in 2008, which was she wasn’t running front and center sort of historic nature of her candidacy as the first female president and what that could mean. The only story line that was out there was the [indecipherable] Madeline Albright comments were not the best way that the Clinton would have liked that message presented. So I think doing that, it is a stunning thing no matter how much Bernie Sanders won by 22 points, and it is a stunning thing that a woman who is running to be the first woman to be a democratic or to be  any party’s nominee and be the first woman president loses women by 11 points.”

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