Robert Cahaly - Pollster & Founder, The Trafalgar Group Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh yeah, we love our polling of date six twenty
two is our time here in Houston's Waring News. We're
joined by Robert Ka Haley, Holster and founder of the
Draffalgar Group, who's been polling young Americans to kind of
get their feeling about a whole variety of different topics,
including where they're at politically. Robert, welcome to the show.
What have you found? Good have you? What have you found?

(00:22):
I know that young men have been trending more conservative
for quite some time. Are women starting to follow them?
Because there was a real disconnect between young men and
young women there for a while.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
You know, what is interesting is the young men the
number is so big that the average is bringing everybody
up because the men plus the women, the men are
extra you know, and we're talking about the difference between
millennials and.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Gen Z, but gen Z men are so much pro.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Republican that even though gen Z women trend Democrats, they
don't win a Democrats as much as gen Z men
trend Republican, bringing all of gen Z leaning toward the
conservative side.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Now as far as supporting Republicans.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Now, when you take a look at the reasons behind that,
by suspicion would be it's that the Democrats have had
a war on men for quite some time, at least
on a traditional male, and they've done their best to
try to demasculize most men. I wonder if that's part
of it, what are some of the reasons why they're
running so much more conservative?

Speaker 2 (01:32):
That is certainly it, And what we found is the
only thing really keeping gen Z women, I mean, the
biggest thing keeping gen Z women on the Democrat.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Side is abortion.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
But that is proportional based on the state they live.
So if you live in a state where abortion wasn't
really changed it's not very restrictive, then gen Z women
thinking of it less an issue because they don't see
it truly under threat. But but of course, you mean
give for example, if you're a gen Z woman, you

(02:05):
live in suburban Atlanta, uh, then Georgia has a very
restrictive abortion law as compared with other metropolitan the states
that have big metropolitan areas, So then abortion moves to
a bigger issue with them. But abortion is what's kind
of kind of anchoring these women there, because what we've

(02:27):
also seen is the opposition to abortion has especially women,
much more to do with their age than any other factor.
So at that age it's still a significant is a
significant issue.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Now if you found overall it used to be kind
of like the North is liberal, in the South is conservative.
Is it still a North south kind of a thing.
Or is the young male conservativism spreading in the North
as well as the South?

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah, the young the young male, if you if you're
old enough to remember, Uh, it doesn't matter how liberal
the household that Alex P.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
Keaton is making his stand these days.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
The uh you know that young guy who was in
a liberal family in the eighties sitcom, I mean it
was it's very much like even if nobody in the
family agrees, uh, men and men are making this I
mean and you're seeing it. It is completely the pushback.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
On everything they seen. And they kind of like the
Trump kind of you know Trump Dan and white kind
of tough guy. Uh, I mean, you know Joe Rummans
Like when you look look at what these males are
doing and the difference between how they interact and and
the women interact, it has everything to do with who
these younger males role models are. And Trump fits right

(03:44):
into that kind of a role model. From that is,
you know, kind of moving back towards the tougher guy
in a type versus the millennial guys that were very
much not kind of you know more buying into some
of the the social pressure to kind of me a
Bata mail.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Interesting. So Macho is back in. I knew it'd come back.
That is back in, all right, Robert, thanks for joining us.
Appreciate it. Robert Haley Follster and founder of the Trafalgar
Group at is six twenty seven