‘A lot of women are rising up’: Harris hopes hinge on female vote

BBC:

In battleground states like Arizona and Michigan, young women are lining up to vote early. Kamala Harris is hoping they are the tide that turns the election for her.

On an abnormally warm fall morning on the University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus, dozens of students stood in line to vote at the university’s early voting centre.

Among them was Keely Ganong, a third-year student who was excited to vote for Harris.

“She’s just a leader that I would to look up to to represent my country,” she said.

“Gender equality is on the forefront of the issues,” said her friend Lola Nordlinger, referencing abortion rights. “A woman’s choice is something that’s so personal to her, and it really should be no one else’s decision.”

Ms Ganong said everyone on campus is talking about voting with less than a week before election day.

“Student voices are definitely going to make a difference” in the election, the 20-year-old said.

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Adrianna Pete, a 24-year-old who was on campus volunteering to teach students about the democratic process, agrees:

“I feel like a lot of women are rising up,” she said.

These young women are, in many ways, typical Harris voters. According to a recent poll by the Harvard Institute of Politics, Harris leads amongst women 18-29 by a whopping 30 points. Amongst college students specifically, of either gender, she leads by 38 points, a recent survey from Inside Higher Ed/Generation Lab survey found.