--- title: Election Poll: Women Are More 'Scared' Than Men description: Supporters of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are equally disappointed in the election, but Clinton backers are much more scared. canonical: https://time.com/4516640/election-poll-scared-disappointed-trump-clinton/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-04T20:00:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:42:06.093Z article:section: Politics og:title: Women Are More Scared About the Presidential Election og:description: According to a TIME/SurveyMonkey poll og:url: https://time.com/4516640/election-poll-scared-disappointed-trump-clinton/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt86fa9dbd27688626/6988a7dccf40a8a0d4c44f8b/trump-clinton2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3685 og:image:height: 2073 og:image:alt: TOPSHOT-US-VOTE-DEBATE og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Women Are More Scared About the Presidential Election twitter:description: According to a TIME/SurveyMonkey poll twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt86fa9dbd27688626/6988a7dccf40a8a0d4c44f8b/trump-clinton2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Women Are More Scared About the Election Than Men > Sponsored content. 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It explains the politics, personalities and power dynamics behind the headlines, three times a week. #### Where can I get analysis of Washington politics by email? D.C. Brief is TIME's free Washington politics newsletter, available at time.com/newsletters. It is written by a TIME senior correspondent who covers the capital full time. #### Who writes TIME's D.C. Brief? Philip Elliott, a senior correspondent at TIME, writes D.C. Brief. #### Is D.C. Brief free? Yes. D.C. Brief is free at time.com/newsletters. ## Video: Donald Trump's Comments on Women [Watch (HLS stream): Donald Trump's Comments on Women](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/LjHsjcpL.m3u8) (1:47)  _Published 2016-10-03. A brief history of Donald Trump's comments on women._ by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Oct 4, 2016 8:00 PM UTC  Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton after the first presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., on Sept. 26, 2016. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton after the first presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., on Sept. 26, 2016. Timothy A. Clary—AFP/Getty Images by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Oct 4, 2016 8:00 PM UTC Women are much more likely to say they are scared about the presidential election, according to a TIME/SurveyMonkey poll. In an online tracking poll of 5,478 registered voters taken Sept. 28-29 after the [first presidential debate](http://time.com/4508703/presidential-debate-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-hofstra-long-island/), 53 percent of women reported feeling “scared” about the election so far, compared to just 37 percent of men. Respondents were allowed to choose from as many of six different feelings about the election as they felt applied. Overall, 48 percent chose “disappointed,” 46 percent chose “scared,” 23 percent chose “sad,” 15 percent chose “excited,” nine percent chose “satisfied,” and four percent chose “I don’t care that much.” One percent did not respond to the question. There were only a few percentage points difference between the genders among the other answers. The poll showed a similar divide between supporters of the two major-party nominees. While 52 percent of [Hillary Clinton](http://time.com/4516138/hillary-clinton-ohio-october/?xid=homepage) backers said they were scared, only 39 percent of [Donald Trump](http://time.com/4515923/donald-trump-hillary-bill-clinton-loyal-pneumonia/) supporters felt the same way. Clinton backers were also slightly more likely to say they felt sad, 25 percent compared to Trump backers’ 18 percent. The SurveyMonkey Election Tracking survey was conducted online in cooperation with TIME magazine on [those two days](http://time.com/4515908/snl-debate-alec-baldwin-kate-mckinnon-donald-trump/). Respondents were chosen from the nearly 3 million people who take surveys on SurveyMonkey each day. The poll has a bootstrap confidence interval—a measure of the pollsters’ confidence in the results—of plus or minus two percentage points for registered voters. You can read more about the methodology [here](http://time.com/4518560/time-survey-monkey-poll/). Further responses from the online survey will be released at a later time. ## Transcript [ INAUDIBLE ] Powerful men. I know. They can make or break you at any moment. [ LAUGH ] Right? You call women you don't like fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals. Your Twitter account- Only Rosie O'Donnell. If I were running The View I'd fire Rosie Rosie. I mean, I'd look her right in that fat, ugly face of hers. I'd say, Rosie, you're fired. Rosie O'Donnell, I said very tough things to her. And I think everybody would agree that she deserves it, and nobody feels sorry for her. If Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her. [ CROSSTALK ] It must be a pretty picture, you dropping to your knees. Thought I should be. Omarosa said me. She was the winner and she gained a massive amount of weight. And it was a real problem. So you can see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever. There has to be some form of punishment. For the woman? Yeah, there has to be some form. If Hillary Clinton were a man I don't think she'd get 5 % of the vote. She was favored to win and she got shlonged, she lost. Well I think the only card she has is the woman's card, she's got nothing else going. She doesn't have the looks, she doesn't have the stamina. I'm telling you, women do like me. I'm telling you. 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