Women are planning to vote for Democrats in higher numbers than past midterms
(CNN)Several factors that pollsters look at are predicting a “blue wave’ in the fall elections, and some observers are calling 2018 the “year of the woman” given the number of female candidates running across the country. And it seems female voters are getting ready to strengthen the Democratic Party.
In CNN’s June poll, half of voters said they’d vote for a Democratic candidate in the upcoming midterm elections, with 42% saying they’d vote for a Republican. This question is colloquially referred to as the generic ballot, and it’s a useful measure of how the two parties will perform in an election.
