Jim Henson and Josh Blank consider the "gender gap" in Texas elections based using some baseline data from the Texas Politics Project poll archive on the attitudes and partisanship of female voters in Texas, and talk about new Texas polling data from the University of Houston and Texas Southern and some themes at the Democratic National Convention.
Some references from the podcast:
"Texas Trends 2024 – August election polling report via the Hobby School of Public Affairs at the University of Houston and the Barbara Jordan – Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern University.
The News Hour interviews Nancy Pelosi at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago (21 August 2024).
Results from the June 2024 UT/Texas Politics Project poll, with all results broken down by gender.
| Category | Male | Female |
|---|---|---|
| Extremely enthusiastic | 49% | 40% |
| Very enthusiastic | 20% | 21% |
| Somewhat enthusiastic | 15% | 13% |
| Not too enthusiastic | 9% | 15% |
| Not at all enthusiastic | 7% | 10% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 1% | 1% |
| Category | Male | Female |
|---|---|---|
| A lot better off | 8% | 3% |
| Somewhat better off | 21% | 14% |
| About the same | 40% | 34% |
| Somewhat worse off | 21% | 30% |
| A lot worse off | 8% | 15% |
| Don't know | 2% | 5% |
About the Second Reading podcast. The podcast has been produced by Jim Henson for the Texas Politics Project, with production support from UT's Liberal Arts Development Studio, since 2016. You can find past episodes and subscribe to the Second Reading podcast in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher.