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Projection alert? CNBC's John Harwood shares 'interesting research' on male Trump voters' 'fragile masculinity'

The Washington Post recently published some Very Important Scientific Research as part of an effort to understand the minds of male Trump voters, and CNBC’s John Harwood thinks the findings are worth sharing:

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So, what’s this “interesting research” all about? Well, let’s take a look:

But our research suggests that Trump is not necessarily attracting male supporters who are as confidently masculine as the president presents himself to be. Instead, Trump appears to appeal more to men who are secretly insecure about their manhood. We call this the “fragile masculinity hypothesis.” Here is some of our evidence.

We found that support for Trump in the 2016 election was higher in areas that had more searches for topics such as “erectile dysfunction.” Moreover, this relationship persisted after accounting for demographic attributes in media markets, such as education levels and racial composition, as well as searches for topics unrelated to fragile masculinity, such as “breast augmentation” and “menopause.”

In contrast, fragile masculinity was not associated with support for Mitt Romney in 2012 or support for John McCain in 2008 — suggesting that the correlation of fragile masculinity and voting in presidential elections was distinctively stronger in 2016.

The same finding emerged in 2018. We estimated levels of fragile masculinity in every U.S. congressional district based on levels in the media markets with which districts overlap. Before the election, we preregistered our expectations, including the other factors that we would account for.

In the more than 390 House elections pitting a Republican candidate against a Democratic candidate, support for the Republican candidate was higher in districts that, based on Google search data, had higher levels of fragile masculinity. However, there was no significant relationship between fragile masculinity and voting in the 2014 or 2016 congressional elections. This suggests that fragile masculinity has now become a stronger predictor of voting behavior.

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Yes, John Harwood. This is really “interesting research.”

Of course Matthew Dowd is super-impressed by the science here:

Amen. That’s because you’re not a douchebag.

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Editor’s note: This post has been updated with additional text and tweets.

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