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Nevilledog

(54,694 posts) Wed Nov 5, 2025, 02:30 PM Nov 5

Charlotte Clymer: What Young Men Problem?

https://charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/what-young-men-problem

For the past eighteen months, a favorite talking point of legacy political pundits is that Democrats have a young male voter problem.

It’s been incessant and so ubiquitous that you’d be led to believe—based on the commentary—that Democratic candidates had all but told young men they don’t want their votes.

Last November, one of the biggest stories coming out of the election was that Democrats are lackluster in their outreach to young men. There had been too much focus on young women (defending bodily autonomy and talking about the need for paid family leave is, apparently, “too much focus” on young women).

Legacy pundits (mostly straight, white men) had ideas on how to solve this crisis. They said the left needs a Joe Rogan type. They said Democrats should “moderate” on issues like trans equality. They opined that the Democratic Party had become too feminized.

Remember James Carville ranting about “preachy females” and claiming that women’s empowerment in messaging is somehow a dealbreaker?

As far as I can tell, none of the big Democratic winners from last night got these histrionic memos from the legacy pundit class.

Not Virginia Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger. Not New Jersey Gov-elect Mikie Shirrell. Not NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. None of the baker’s dozen of Democrats who increased the party’s majority in the Virginia House of Delegates.

None of them.

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Charlotte Clymer: What Young Men Problem? (Original Post) Nevilledog Nov 5 OP

But there simply MUST be a young men problem... Fiendish Thingy Nov 5 #1

Thank you Charlotte Clymer, because it needed to be said Quiet Em Nov 5 #2

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Fiendish Thingy

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1. But there simply MUST be a young men problem...

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Wed Nov 5, 2025, 03:27 PM

Nov 5

If there wasn’t, why would the DNC have just spent $20 million to consultants to “learn how to listen to men”?

Quiet Em

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2. Thank you Charlotte Clymer, because it needed to be said

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Wed Nov 5, 2025, 03:27 PM

Nov 5

Abigail Spanberger won 58 percent of male voters aged 18-29 and just edged out her Republican opponent among male voters aged 30-44. In fact, she damn near won the overall male vote, regardless of age — 49 percent. And she did this while flipping a swing state.

Mikie Shirrell won 57 percent of male voters aged 18-29 and 62 percent among male voters aged 30-44. Likewise, she barely lost the overall male vote — 49 percent.

Zohran Mamdani won 67 percent of male voters aged 18-29 and 67 percent among male voters aged 30-44. A full two-thirds of all young male voters. He won half of the male vote overall — exactly 50 percent.

Democrats clearly won young men last night. There is no debate over this. The numbers are loud and unyielding.

They didn’t do it by pandering to young men. They didn’t do it by begging in broken fratboy speak. They didn’t do it by treating young men like special little boys who need their hands held. They didn’t do it by abandoning women and trans people.

They did it by talking to young men about affordability. They talked to young men like young voters who are worried about the cost-of-living, not like men who need some dipshit masculinized pitch.

https://charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/what-young-men-problem

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