The question isn’t whether the American public would vote for a woman as president. In 2016, a woman beat her male opponent by almost 3 million votes.
The question is how much longer will the majority of Americans be willing to leave their vote for president up to the weak spot in the Electoral College, its state-by-state winner-take-all operating system.
Under winner-take-all, the closer the margin between winner and loser in a presidential race, the greater the odds of divergence between the electoral vote and the national popular vote. In 2000, 2004 and 2016, the popular vote margins between winner and loser were less than three percent.