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3/4 Bath in Dallas

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Santa Barbara Bathroom 3/4 Bath

Bathroom with recessed-panel cabinets, distressed cabinets, white walls, a vessel sink, marble countertops, a hinged shower door, orange countertops, and a built-in vanity in a medium-sized tuscan 3/4 orange tile and marble tile, yellow floor, and wainscoting design.

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Master Bath in Santa Barbara Inspiration for a large country master white tile white floor, single-sink, exposed beam and vaulted ceiling bathroom remodel with recessed-panel cabinets, gray cabinets, white walls, an undermount sink, a hinged shower door, white countertops and a built-in vanity

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Mediterranean Bathroom Santa Barbara Large bathroom with recessed-panel cabinets, light wood cabinets, white walls, an undermount sink, marble countertops, a hinged shower door, blue countertops, and a built-in vanity with tuscan 3/4 orange tile and glass tile flooring.

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Santa Barbara 3/4 Bath Bathroom Bathroom: Large Mediterranean 3/4-orange marble tile and tile floor, gray floor, double-sink, and wainscoting bathroom idea with recessed-panel cabinets, light wood cabinets, orange walls, a vessel sink, marble countertops, a hinged shower door, gray countertops, and a built-in vanity.

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8 Things To Watch And Read If You Want To Understand Michael Jackson Better

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We can’t say that the Michael Jackson we hear described in “Leaving Neverland” is a man entirely foreign to us. The searing tales from the documentary’s two subjects are of course shocking. But such tales have come out before.

And Jackson himself: We have always known how weird he was, and most of us suspected that at least some of his behavior — the excessive facial surgery and his odd friendships with kids, for starters — hid deeper and darker secrets.

If you’re coming in new to the Jackson story, or if Dan Reed’s documentary left you with more questions than you started with, here is a list of required watching and reading to fill in the gaps. See and hear how the drama that was Michael played out over the years — and watch how the brightest star in the world began to flicker and finally go out.

If you want to understand Jackson’s upbringing better …

“Michael Jackson: Life of an Icon” is an unheralded film made by David Gest, whom most people know as the guy who, for a while, was Mr. Liza Minnelli. Jackson and Elizabeth Taylor were in attendance at the wedding. It turns out that Gest had known the Jackson family since their earliest days in Los Angeles. His portrait of the family, while of course Jackson-friendly, has an unparalleled intimacy.

If you want to see Jackson single-handedly bring on the worst PR disaster of his career…

Then Watch Martin Bashir’s two-part special, ”Living with Michael Jackson,” which aired on ABC in February 2003. Having hooked this big fish, Bashir reels him in carefully, capturing among other things a manic spending spree at a garishly expensive Las Vegas art gallery. Jackson then discloses that he was still sharing his room with young boys. Among the viewers of the show were prosecutors in Santa Barbara county, where Neverland is situated. After seeing Jackson’s admission, they launched a criminal investigation, found a child who said Jackson had molested him, and arrested Jackson later that year. He was put on trial and acquitted of all charges in 2005.

If you want to get a glimpse of PR damage control at its crudest (and least effective) … 

The Bashir interview dwarfed all previous Jackson PR disasters. The Jackson camp’s response was “The Michael Jackson Interview: The Footage You Were Never Meant to See.” Jackson had his own copy of the Bashir interviews; he sold these to Fox, which built this program around them. It was hosted by Maury Povich, hitting a new low even for him. The idea is that Bashir was unfair to Jackson. A few complimentary comments from Bashir are pulled out of context, and a whole bunch of Jackson family members are trotted out to tell us the show misrepresented Michael. The attempt to undermine Bashir’s credibility doesn’t work, because all the destruction Jackson did to himself in the original was accomplished by words out of Jackson’s own mouth.

If you want some disturbing details into the molestation charges from a reporter who followed Jackson for years …

Vanity Fair’s Maureen Orth posted this just before “Leaving Neverland” aired: 10 Undeniable Facts About the Michael Jackson Sexual-Abuse Allegations. No. 4: “Jordie Chandler drew a picture of the markings on the underside of Jackson’s penis. His drawings were sealed in an envelope. A few months later, investigators photographed Jackson’s genitalia. The photographs matched Chandler’s drawings.” There are also links to Orth’s reports on Jackson from over the years.

If you want to see the beginnings of Jackson’s public decline …

In 1995, Jackson and his then wife, Lisa-Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis Presley, sat down with Diane Sawyer. Note that the show starts with the outlandish claim that ”Bad” would generate $1 billion in sales. Then we see Jackson. And for the first time, it is clear that he was changing his appearance in a highly disturbing way: heavily pancaked, his chin and cheekbones resculpted, even his ears seemingly pinned back. Then comes the formal interview, and Sawyer with a tone of almost dazed disbelief asks Jackson the obvious questions about his sleeping habits with young boys, which Jackson, with his wife sitting uncomfortably by his side, insists is a perfectly wonderful thing to do.

If you want to see stars rally around Jackson …

Jackson did a pair of concerts in late 2001 for later broadcast on television. The world’s memory of this is somewhat occluded because the second of these took place on Sept. 10. The TV special — dubbed “Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration” — was shown that November. The guest performers included *NSYNC, Britney Spears, Usher, Whitney Houston, Destiny’s Child, etc. etc. etc. All accounts say Jackson was drugged out at the time — and he looked it — but he sang some oldies with his brothers and did a few wan versions of his hits.

If you missed his memorial service …

The Michael Jackson Memorial Service was a bizarre event held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on July 9, 2009, about two weeks after his death. While a few Motown luminaries — Stevie Wonder, Berry Gordy, Smokey Robinson — saluted their dead friend, and a few other stars make appearances, this was an underwhelming event for a star of Jackson’s stature. The second half devolved, as political figures like Al Sharpton showed up to harangue the crowd. At one point, addressing Jackson’s kids, Sharpton bellowed, “Wasn’t nothin’ strange about your daddy! It was strange what your daddy had to deal with!”

Nah, he was strange.

If you want a decent overview of Jackson’s life … 

I wrote this long New Yorker essay in 2012, discussing Jackson’s career and music and specifically what the star’s desperate quest for fame and white acceptance did to his psyche: “There’s little doubt that Jackson lost something self-defining along the way. He ended up a shade, and, besides the music, all that he really left behind — an ambiguous legacy, and a tarnished name, to some rich white kids — was just the final, meaningless step in the ultimate crossover.”

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LA Bachelor Pad, Beverly Crest

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LA Bachelor Pad in Beverly Crest, Los Angeles

Dec 15, 2021

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ LA Bachelor Pad just came on the market at $14.5 million

Location: Beverly Crest, Los Angeles, California, USA

Source: TopTenRealEstateDeals

LA Bachelor Pad, Beverly Crest For Sale

The LA mansion where Sean “Diddy” Combs lived when he starred in the TV movie A Raisin in the Sun, won BET awards for Diddy – Dirty Money and Hello Good Morning, grabbed multiple MTV awards, developed several clothing lines, opened two restaurants and a very successful liquor business, just came on the market at $14.5 million.

Recently updated, Sean lived in the 2004-built home from 2008 to 2013. Located in the Beverly Crest neighborhood, where the crème de la crème of LA society live in their secluded mansions, the home includes five bedrooms and six baths on three floors. Something a bit different, but convenient for entertaining and late-night munchies, the well-equipped kitchen is located on the middle floor.

Almost everything about Sean’s former bachelor pad is connected in some way to the home’s dramatic views – at every level. Visitors enter through the top floor into a grand foyer with a large skylight, dramatic chandelier, museum-quality finishes and postcard views of Los Angeles from the Pacific Ocean to Downtown.

Also on the top floor is the master suite with a lounge, fireplace, balcony, and a white-marble bath with dual vanities, showers, soaking tub and more sweeping views. In addition to the kitchen, the middle floor includes the dining area and a separate seating area with an entertainer’s bar and an office. The first level includes three more bedrooms and the living room with a fireplace and glass doors that open to the large backyard with an infinity pool, sunken spa, grass lawn, and even more views.

Beverly Crest might be LA’s best neighborhood with the best celebrities, best views, and the world-famous 90210 zip code. Located next to Beverly Hills between Bel Air and the Hollywood Hills, Beverly Crest’s hills and canyons provide the starting canvas for homes such as the Hyatt Family (hotels) 49,300 square-foot hilltop home, with current values reaching the $100 million stratosphere. Famous residents, past and present, include Rock Hudson, Mark Wahlburg, Denzell Washington and Sylvester Stallone.

Born and raised in New York, Sean got into the music business as a talent director working with entertainers such as Usher and Mary J. Blige and, in 1993, founding his own record company, Bad Boy Entertainment. He then started producing his own music and, by the late ’90s, was one of the world’s biggest stars, on his way to multiple Grammy, MTV and BET awards.

His song “I’ll Be Missing You” was the first rap song to debut at #1 on the Billboard charts. Somehow, Sean found time to start his very successful clothing line Sean John.

The home is listed with Aleks Lipovic and Holland Ashrafnia and Aaron Kirman of Aaron Kirman Group at Compass.

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1040 Redberry Pl Nipomo CA 93444 | Blacklake Golf Home with Casitas for Sale

Welcome to your golf home in Blacklake!

Comfort and style in a tranquil environment with unlimited viewing rights of the picturesque golf course await you in this beautiful 3-bedroom, 3-bathroom Nipomo home for sale.

Nestled on a cul-de-sac, this home is elevated above the golf course giving you panoramic views.  Its 2,395 square feet of living space delivers the peace and privacy you deserve. 

Love to golf? This home has a 3-car garage; 2 cars plus your golf cart will fit very comfortably!

The front courtyard with well-tended plants gives this home a warm and inviting appeal that will make you want to see more and explore. 

If you want an elegant and spacious home in a serene community where you can enjoy an active lifestyle, this golf home is definitely a winner!

A Blacklake home designed and built for your ultimate comfort

This Nipomo CA home's design and layout are meant to maximize space and offer a stunning view of its surroundings.

The great room with its big windows allows light to fill the room, making it bright and cheerful.  Coffered ceiling and real wood floors add elegance to this already visually appealing space.  A wood-burning fireplace ensures warmth all year round. 

Your eyes will be drawn to the large picture windows displaying spectacular golf course views. 

What better way to greet each day than with this breathtaking view coupled with the majestic sunrise.

The spacious living area allows you to create more than one seating arrangement. Or you can also use this as a spacious formal dining room.

This home’s eat-in kitchen is meant to impress! It features an island, double ovens, a gas cooktop, nearly new refrigerator, and so many cupboards that you will have space for every kitchen gadget you own! There’s also plenty of room for friends to join you. 

A casual dining space will be a big help when you’re entertaining. Located just a few steps away from the kitchen, this dining space can comfortably fit a six-seater dining table. Large windows grace the walls, making this room bright and cheerful. 

Fall in love with the inviting ambiance of the family room with its large windows, neutral-toned walls, and wood-floor.  The sliding glass doors let in plenty of natural light, flooding the living room with warmth. 

The master bedroom is warm and inviting. Thanks to its neutrally-tone walls, large windows, and carpet floors, and fireplace, this room sets the perfect ambiance for rest and sleep.

Ease your stress away and pamper yourself with a luxurious soak in the jetted tub of the master’s bathroom. Other features you’ll appreciate are the large walk-in closet, separate shower and tub, and dual vanities.

The second bedroom suite has its own bathroom as well. 

A full-length patio allows you to sit outside and watch the golfers.

Plantation shutters have been installed all throughout the home for privacy and security.

A laundry room completes the features of the home. 

A room for your guests

Do you want to have your own library or home office? How about a guest room?  This detached casita located across the courtyard offers a bedroom and bathroom for your guests. 

The Murphy bed will remain in the property. 

The beautiful, large lot is low maintenance so you can use your free time for such things as golfing or walking or enjoying the great weather.

Don’t miss this chance to live in the Blacklake Golf community!

On top of all this home’s amazing features, it is located in Blacklake, a highly sought-after community due to its amenities and location. The community has a clubhouse, a swim club with pool and spa (separate membership), bar & grill, pro shop, bocce ball, and free outdoor summer concerts. You’ll also love the beautiful blue skies and temperate weather. 

This community is about 15 minutes to Pismo Beach, 30 minutes to San Luis Obispo, and 75 miles to Santa Barbara.

This Blacklake home is the golf property you are looking for. Truly, this is a home you can’t miss!

For more information about this home, or other homes for sale in the Blacklake golf community, please visit http://www.oceanbreezerealestate.com 

Call me, Margaret Morris, at 805-709-8535 to set a showing today.

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Neutral Home Interior Ideas

  Beautifully designed by two very talented interior designers, Mitzi Maynard and Clare Kennedy, this neutral home has 4 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms (6 including pool house), and a total of 6,500 square feet.

The homeowners began building this neutral home in the fall of 2015, and it was completed in the Spring of 2017. This home combines a few different architectural styles. The exterior is a fresh take on a traditional home, which works well in their established neighborhood in Nashville. The interior of the home has a more Modern/Mediterranean style with a neutral color scheme that is easy on the eyes and soothing to the soul.

All photos by Aimée Mazzenga.

  Neutral Home Interior Ideas

The homeowners are minimalists in style but are full of energy and playfulness.We had to strike a balance between comfort and livability for their family (pets included) while carefully curating a beautiful minimalist space.

Similar Pendants: here.

With Family in Mind

We designed this space to be the perfect multi-functional space for a family that loves to entertain.

Coffee Table – Four Hands – Cruz Coffee Table

Rug: Here.

Chairs

The four chairs in the center of the room and the huge fabric pendants make the room feel cozy enough for intimate gatherings.

Lanterns – Custom Made at Redo Home + Design

Beautiful Lumbar Pillows: here, here, here, here, here, here & here.

Chairs – Cisco Brothers – similar here & here.

Paint Color

Paint color is Benjamin Moore OC-17 White Dove.

Modern Lighting

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Built-in Bench

The built in reading bench is their favorite place to read a book or take a nap in the sunshine. And, when they host large-scale events they simply clear out the chairs and the room transitions to a caterers dream.

Bench Mattress – Anthropologie

Pillows – Anthropologie

Table Lamp: Discontinued. Other Beautiful Table Lamps: here, here, here & here.

Kitchen

The kitchen is defined by its clean lines, concrete countertops and hand forged hardware.  The rattan stools and vintage Oushak rug add texture and age to the space.

Cabinetry & Paint Color

The European hardware added architecture and substance to the modern custom cabinetry. The paint color is Benjamin Moore White Dove.

Similar Hardware: here, here, here & here.

Runner –  Vintage Runner (one-of- a-kind) – similar here, here & here.

Range: Wolf – similar here.

Island Pendant

Our client really pushed for the single-pendant over their custom concrete island. She wanted something minimalist, large scale, that added a modern glam element to the room.

Oversized Island Pendant: RH Modern – Beautiful Pendant Lights (many styles for every budget): here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here & here.

Counterstools

Counterstools – Palecek.

Countertop

Countertop is concrete. Concrete was also used on the both sides of the kitchen island.

Decor

Minimalist decor keeps this kitchen feeling airy and uncluttered.

Cabinetry

Cabinets – Wood Tones Cabinetry.

Dining Room

The dining room carries the same clean-lined feel. Metal and leather dining chairs complement a black dining table with chunky legs.

Dining Chairs: here.

Similar Dining Table: here, here, here & here.

Similar Antique Dough Bowl: here & here.

Great Room

At the center of the home is the warm and inviting living space. With its relaxed West- Coast style, it captures the feeling of true indoor/outdoor living. The towering steel doors give the perfect view to the pristinely landscaped backyard and pool.

Hidden Push Panel Doors – Jamie Beckwith

Danish Chairs – Borge Mogense – similar here.

Sectional – RH – similar here.

Color Scheme

Neutral Color Scheme: We were trying to leave the colorful palette of their previous home behind us. They were ready to go neutral so we used natural elements, texture, and mixed metals to bring lay- ers and warmth to the space.

While antiquing in Michigan we found an African Carved Wood Senofu stool that is one of the homeowners favorite pieces in their living room.

Fireplace

The modern concrete fireplace wall is the centerpiece of the room and features custom designed wood push-paneled doors (that cleverly hide clutter).

Pillows – Custom-made – similar here, here, here, here & here.

Similar Floor Pillows: here.

Similar Rug: here.

Similar Coffee Table: here & here.

Hardwood Flooring

Hand-Scraped Wood Flooring – Hitson & Co – similar here, here & here.

Architectural Elements

Great Finds: The homeowner found some gorgeous arched vintage doors from an antique dealer in England, and she knew she had to have them. The doors are now one of the defining architectural elements in the house.

Paint Color

The paint color is White Dove Oc-17 by Benjamin Moore.

Similar Throw: here.

Similar Ladder: here.

Daybed

The interiors feel collected, traveled, relaxed, Layered and yet modern.

Pillows – Pehuen Pillows – similar here.

Chandelier – Made Goods – similar style: here, here & here.

Home Office

I absolutely love this small home office. Notice the smartly-designed built-ins!

Similar Wallpaper: here.

Office Chair

Chair is from RH – similar here, here & here.

Powder Room

The powder room feels neutral and feminine without being too over-the-top.

Mirror

Similar Brass Round Mirror: here & here.

Faucet: Kohler.

Transitional

This transitional bathroom features a vintage wooden console table used as vanity, vessel sinks and a pair of Moroccan embellished hampers.

Similar Console Table (better if made of solid hardwood – it would make a great DIY! :): here, here & here.

Curbless Shower

This bathroom also features a simple curbless shower and a freestanding tub.

Similar Floor Tile: here.

Girl’s Bathroom

Beautiful choices bring a timeless yet current feel to this bathroom. Vanity is wrapped in a white quartz.

Similar Arabesque Wall Tile: here & here (in marble).

Mirror

Bathroom also features a long vanity, antique mirrored pendant lights and an arched mirror.

Similar Arched Mirror: here, here & here.

Similar Faucet: here.

Pendants: Worlds Away.

Paint Color & Flooring

Paint color is Benjamin Moore White Dove.

Flooring is a marble mosaic tile – similar here.

Runner is vintage – similar here.

Master Bedroom

The homeowners wanted their master suite to be defined by comfort.

Oversized Art – Original Addie Chapin Art – Other beautiful artwork: here.

Gifted

Stools – Gifted to homeowners parents – Faux Mongolian Fur Stools: here.

Paint Color

The paint color is Benjamin Moore White Dove.

Elements

From the plush upholstered bed, shag rug, and layered knitted textures, the room is indulgently cozy.

Nightstands & Pendants

Nightstands – RH – similar here, here & here.

The Beehive Pendant Lights are Marmoset Found, from Australia – similar here (in black).

Knitted Throw – Etsy – Similar Knit Throw: here.

Inviting

Our goal was to make the minimalist architecture feel livable, inviting and collected.

Bathroom Paint Color

The paint color continuous to be Benjamin Moore White Dove.

Organic Feel

The master bathroom features an unique concrete and wood vanity.

Mirror

Mirror – Noir – similar here & here.

Sconces – Restoration Hardware.

Black & White

Tub Side Table – Custom-made.

Creating a Beautiful Home

The house is nestled in a well established Nashville neighborhood. But when you walk in you feel as if you have been transported to villa in the Mediterranean. The wall of windows connect the beautiful outdoor space with the interior, creating an invitation to relax and enjoy.

Outdoor Furniture – RH

Swing

A porch swing comes to complete the relaxed feel of this gorgeous home.

  Many thanks to the designers for sharing all of the details above.

Interior Designer: Designers: Mitzi Maynard (@mitzimaynard) and Clare Kennedy (@clarann). Make sure to follow them!

Photography: Aimée Mazzenga (@aimeemazzenga)

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Neutral Home Interior Ideas

  Beautifully designed by two very talented interior designers, Mitzi Maynard and Clare Kennedy, this neutral home has 4 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms (6 including pool house), and a total of 6,500 square feet.

The homeowners began building this neutral home in the fall of 2015, and it was completed in the Spring of 2017. This home combines a few different architectural styles. The exterior is a fresh take on a traditional home, which works well in their established neighborhood in Nashville. The interior of the home has a more Modern/Mediterranean style with a neutral color scheme that is easy on the eyes and soothing to the soul.

All photos by Aimée Mazzenga.

  Neutral Home Interior Ideas

The homeowners are minimalists in style but are full of energy and playfulness.We had to strike a balance between comfort and livability for their family (pets included) while carefully curating a beautiful minimalist space.

Similar Pendants: here.

With Family in Mind

We designed this space to be the perfect multi-functional space for a family that loves to entertain.

Coffee Table – Four Hands – Cruz Coffee Table

Rug: Here.

Chairs

The four chairs in the center of the room and the huge fabric pendants make the room feel cozy enough for intimate gatherings.

Lanterns – Custom Made at Redo Home + Design

Beautiful Lumbar Pillows: here, here, here, here, here, here & here.

Chairs – Cisco Brothers – similar here & here.

Paint Color

Paint color is Benjamin Moore OC-17 White Dove.

Modern Lighting

(Always check dimensions before ordering)

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Built-in Bench

The built in reading bench is their favorite place to read a book or take a nap in the sunshine. And, when they host large-scale events they simply clear out the chairs and the room transitions to a caterers dream.

Bench Mattress – Anthropologie

Pillows – Anthropologie

Table Lamp: Discontinued. Other Beautiful Table Lamps: here, here, here & here.

Kitchen

The kitchen is defined by its clean lines, concrete countertops and hand forged hardware.  The rattan stools and vintage Oushak rug add texture and age to the space.

Cabinetry & Paint Color

The European hardware added architecture and substance to the modern custom cabinetry. The paint color is Benjamin Moore White Dove.

Similar Hardware: here, here, here & here.

Runner –  Vintage Runner (one-of- a-kind) – similar here, here & here.

Range: Wolf – similar here.

Island Pendant

Our client really pushed for the single-pendant over their custom concrete island. She wanted something minimalist, large scale, that added a modern glam element to the room.

Oversized Island Pendant: RH Modern – Beautiful Pendant Lights (many styles for every budget): here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here & here.

Counterstools

Counterstools – Palecek.

Countertop

Countertop is concrete. Concrete was also used on the both sides of the kitchen island.

Decor

Minimalist decor keeps this kitchen feeling airy and uncluttered.

Cabinetry

Cabinets – Wood Tones Cabinetry.

Dining Room

The dining room carries the same clean-lined feel. Metal and leather dining chairs complement a black dining table with chunky legs.

Dining Chairs: here.

Similar Dining Table: here, here, here & here.

Similar Antique Dough Bowl: here & here.

Great Room

At the center of the home is the warm and inviting living space. With its relaxed West- Coast style, it captures the feeling of true indoor/outdoor living. The towering steel doors give the perfect view to the pristinely landscaped backyard and pool.

Hidden Push Panel Doors – Jamie Beckwith

Danish Chairs – Borge Mogense – similar here.

Sectional – RH – similar here.

Color Scheme

Neutral Color Scheme: We were trying to leave the colorful palette of their previous home behind us. They were ready to go neutral so we used natural elements, texture, and mixed metals to bring lay- ers and warmth to the space.

While antiquing in Michigan we found an African Carved Wood Senofu stool that is one of the homeowners favorite pieces in their living room.

Fireplace

The modern concrete fireplace wall is the centerpiece of the room and features custom designed wood push-paneled doors (that cleverly hide clutter).

Pillows – Custom-made – similar here, here, here, here & here.

Similar Floor Pillows: here.

Similar Rug: here.

Similar Coffee Table: here & here.

Hardwood Flooring

Hand-Scraped Wood Flooring – Hitson & Co – similar here, here & here.

Architectural Elements

Great Finds: The homeowner found some gorgeous arched vintage doors from an antique dealer in England, and she knew she had to have them. The doors are now one of the defining architectural elements in the house.

Paint Color

The paint color is White Dove Oc-17 by Benjamin Moore.

Similar Throw: here.

Similar Ladder: here.

Daybed

The interiors feel collected, traveled, relaxed, Layered and yet modern.

Pillows – Pehuen Pillows – similar here.

Chandelier – Made Goods – similar style: here, here & here.

Home Office

I absolutely love this small home office. Notice the smartly-designed built-ins!

Similar Wallpaper: here.

Office Chair

Chair is from RH – similar here, here & here.

Powder Room

The powder room feels neutral and feminine without being too over-the-top.

Mirror

Similar Brass Round Mirror: here & here.

Faucet: Kohler.

Transitional

This transitional bathroom features a vintage wooden console table used as vanity, vessel sinks and a pair of Moroccan embellished hampers.

Similar Console Table (better if made of solid hardwood – it would make a great DIY! :): here, here & here.

Curbless Shower

This bathroom also features a simple curbless shower and a freestanding tub.

Similar Floor Tile: here.

Girl’s Bathroom

Beautiful choices bring a timeless yet current feel to this bathroom. Vanity is wrapped in a white quartz.

Similar Arabesque Wall Tile: here & here (in marble).

Mirror

Bathroom also features a long vanity, antique mirrored pendant lights and an arched mirror.

Similar Arched Mirror: here, here & here.

Similar Faucet: here.

Pendants: Worlds Away.

Paint Color & Flooring

Paint color is Benjamin Moore White Dove.

Flooring is a marble mosaic tile – similar here.

Runner is vintage – similar here.

Master Bedroom

The homeowners wanted their master suite to be defined by comfort.

Oversized Art – Original Addie Chapin Art – Other beautiful artwork: here.

Gifted

Stools – Gifted to homeowners parents – Faux Mongolian Fur Stools: here.

Paint Color

The paint color is Benjamin Moore White Dove.

Elements

From the plush upholstered bed, shag rug, and layered knitted textures, the room is indulgently cozy.

Nightstands & Pendants

Nightstands – RH – similar here, here & here.

The Beehive Pendant Lights are Marmoset Found, from Australia – similar here (in black).

Knitted Throw – Etsy – Similar Knit Throw: here.

Inviting

Our goal was to make the minimalist architecture feel livable, inviting and collected.

Bathroom Paint Color

The paint color continuous to be Benjamin Moore White Dove.

Organic Feel

The master bathroom features an unique concrete and wood vanity.

Mirror

Mirror – Noir – similar here & here.

Sconces – Restoration Hardware.

Black & White

Tub Side Table – Custom-made.

Creating a Beautiful Home

The house is nestled in a well established Nashville neighborhood. But when you walk in you feel as if you have been transported to villa in the Mediterranean. The wall of windows connect the beautiful outdoor space with the interior, creating an invitation to relax and enjoy.

Outdoor Furniture – RH

Swing

A porch swing comes to complete the relaxed feel of this gorgeous home.

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Designer Catherine Masi's small studio apartment is in the historic Eastside of Downtown Santa Barbara. The area is beautiful and full of history — and so is the building she lives in. Not only is it bursting with architectural integrity, her apartment was actually built back in the 1920s to house the cast and crew for a Charlie Chaplin movie, which was a thrill for Catherine to discover (she's a Chaplin fan). And the original details that are still intact, like built-ins, a vanity room, and a (now) sealed-off dumbwaiter, are beautiful bonuses to an already lovely home.

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Burlingame | $2.898 Million

A cedar-shingled 1916 cottage with three bedrooms and two and a half bathrooms

Burlingame, a city in San Mateo County, between San Francisco and Palo Alto, has a population of about 28,000 and a median home sale price of $1.95 million. This Arts and Crafts house is in Burlingame Park, a historic neighborhood a few blocks from the center of one of the city’s two retail districts. There, you’ll find restaurants, boutiques, the Copenhagen Bakery and an Apple store.

Size: 2,180 square feet

Price per square foot: $1,329

Indoors: The single-level house was renovated by a previous owner and includes a recently upgraded kitchen and bathrooms. (The current owner bought the property less than six years ago.)

A central foyer with oak floors and a vintage brass pendant light opens, though windowed pocket doors, into a living room with extensive millwork and built-ins. The wood-burning brick fireplace is flanked by square, glass-fronted bookshelves, each with an adjacent window seat. The large dining room, entered from the foyer through a second set of pocket doors, has another wall of Mission-style cabinetry.

The kitchen includes white wood cabinets with marble countertops, a white bead-board wainscot and a butcher-block work area with seating placed against a wall, to make efficient use of the narrow space. The gas range is Thermador, the dishwasher Bosch and the refrigerator Sub-Zero.

Off the dining room is an office with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves and a built-in corner desk and upper cabinets.

A windowed door with milk-glass panes opens to the large master suite. The master bathroom was finished with marble surfaces, a roomy tub with an integrated shower and a toilet closet. Two guest bedrooms share a bathroom faced in white subway tile, with a combined tub and shower. There is also a powder room.

A pocket door in the kitchen offers access to a carpeted, finished basement with recessed and natural light.

Outdoor space: The house occupies a corner lot with lawns and hedges and is wrapped by a white picket fence. The front door is tucked under the roof of an elevated front porch. French doors in the kitchen open to a large rear deck. Parking is in a detached one-car garage and an off-street paved area with an electric vehicle charger.

Ojai | $2.882 Million

A midcentury-modern house built in 1960, with three bedrooms and two bathrooms, on a 0.75-acre lot with a swimming pool and studio outbuilding

This property is in East Ojai, two blocks north of Grand Avenue. It is surrounded by large citrus and olive ranches, and has the feeling of Tuscany, with bigger mountains. It is four miles east of the Ojai Valley Inn and Spa, a 250-acre resort that is a centerpiece of this city of 7,500, which is known for its outstanding beauty and prohibition of chain stores. Downtown Los Angeles is 80 miles southeast, and Santa Barbara is 36 miles west.

Size: 1,600 square feet

Price per square foot: $1,801

Indoors: The home was bought four years ago and brought back from a ruinous state. Original features, including sections of its redwood siding, were restored or given period replacements.

A wood-faced foyer leads to a combined living-and-dining room, where glass spans the distance between a ceramic-tile floor and a beamed, slatted ceiling, and the redwood walls have an artful, patchwork look. A large tile fireplace is fronted by a custom wrought-iron screen that swings open like a gate. (The artisan who created it also designed the iron gates that admit cars and pedestrians to the property.)

The renovated kitchen is long and lean, with white cabinetry, dark countertops, floating stainless steel shelves and high-end appliances, including a Viking range.

The three bedrooms all have slatted redwood ceilings, paneled walls, tiled floors and expansive windows. The en suite master bathroom includes a walk-in subway-tiled shower; the guest bathroom has a combined shower and tub.

There is a separate studio building with a room for lounging or working, and a sink and counter area off to the side.

Outdoor space: The professionally landscaped property has lush greenery and multiple patios; one includes an outdoor grill built in rough stone near the recently built swimming pool, while another overlooks a koi pond to the side.

Taxes: $36,025 (estimated)

Contact: Sharon MaHarry, MaHarry & Cadenasso Real Estate Team, 805-766-7889; 805properties.com

Los Angeles | $2.8735 Million

A modernist house built in 1961, with four bedrooms and two and a half bathrooms, on a 0.42-acre lot with a swimming pool

The renowned Austrian-American architect Richard Neutra designed this one-story home in the Encino district of Los Angeles for a physician and his wife. It has remained in the same family ever since, along with extensive correspondence and transaction records related to its construction.

The house faces north, with views of the San Gabriel Mountains. It is a mile and a half above Ventura Boulevard, which is lined with chain stores and other businesses. Los Encinos State Historic Park is about two miles north, and Westridge-Canyonback Wilderness Park and Mulholland Drive are the same distance south. Downtown Los Angeles is 20 miles southeast. The Van Nuys Airport, which is popular with private jet owners, is six miles north.

Size: 2,676 square feet

Price per square foot: $1,074

Indoors: Passing through a glassed-in front atrium space with plantings, and a red double front door, you enter a freshly painted and carpeted area that extends the width of the house, with a transparent back wall overlooking the pool and distant mountains.

At one end is a living room with a floating fireplace along a side wall. A sliding partition that runs along a ceiling track closes off the living room from the adjacent dining area, and a second partition separates the dining room from the kitchen on the other side.

The kitchen includes ash cabinetry with hardware that is original and tile countertops that are not, and a retractable shade to block sunlight streaming through the rear wall of glass. A third sliding partition divides the kitchen from the room beyond it — a den with wood paneling and built-in floating shelves.

To the right of the entrance is a hallway leading to the three bedrooms. The master suite, which looks out to the pool, has wraparound glass walls and a private outdoor patio and putting green. The master bathroom includes double sinks and a sunken Roman tub with a shower head; the period-appropriate linoleum flooring is new.

Two guest bedrooms share the hall bathroom in between, which has a sunken bathtub and separate dressing room with a long vanity. A fourth bedroom behind the den looks out to the front atrium and is staged as an office. It has access to a bathroom with a shower; this room also opens to the pool area. A niche with washer-and-dryer hookups is here, as well.

Outdoor space: The almost-half-acre lot is large and level for the neighborhood, with extraordinary views. If the property were bought by a developer and this historic home were torn down, as is happening frequently in the hot Los Angeles real estate market, it would be a veritable crime. Parking, for two cars, is in an attached carport.

Taxes: $35,919 (estimated)

Contact: Andrew Manning, Berkshire Hathaway Home Services California Properties, 818-522-3972; bhhscalifornia.com

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Santa Clarita, California (CNN)On a recent evening in the suburbs of Los Angeles, two dozen women gathered to talk about sexual assault.

They did so at the campaign office of Katie Hill, a Democrat running in a district that has been held by Republicans for more than two decades, and amid the drama unfolding thousands of miles away in Washington, DC, over the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, who stood accused of sexual assault himself.

In this culturally tumultuous moment when Donald Trump seems to believe that Republicans can win the midterm elections in part by stoking a backlash to the #MeToo movement, the most intensely personal experience for 31-year-old Hill — and for so many other women across the country — has suddenly entered the realm of the political.

Hill was sexually assaulted as a teenager, and watching the testimony of Kavanuagh and his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, she and her campaign decided to invite a group of women together to talk about why so many stay silent after a sexual assault.

“It brought up a lot of trauma. … I decided, if we’re reacting like this, if this is happening for us, and you’ve got millions and millions of people across the country who are glued to the TV, then this is happening across the board,” Hill said. “Regardless of what happens with Kavanaugh, this is here. Right? We have to deal with this.”

In interviews with dozens of women in competitive congressional districts across the country, the frustration with Trump — and the impression that Republicans have simply yielded to his whims — has built steadily over the past year and hardened during the Kavanaugh fight as the midterm election approaches.

The prime time ceremonial swearing in of Kavanaugh at the White House on Monday night highlighted a crowning achievement for Trump and conservatives — tipping the ideological balance of the Supreme Court potentially in their favor for generations. Republicans say that the achievement — particularly after the bitterly partisan confirmation fight — will mobilize their base heading into November.

But Kavanaugh’s confirmation battle has also been a galvanizing force for Democratic, independent and even some Republican women and not a singular one.

Long before Trump

mocked Ford’s testimony on stage at a rally in Mississippi

and pronounced the #MeToo era a “very scary time” for young men, his support among women was cratering, dragging the image of the GOP along with it. In CNN’s latest polling, Democrats top Republicans among white female likely voters with college degrees by a 67% to 31% margin.

It is most palpable here in the more than a half-dozen California Congressional districts that could determine control of the House: a convergence of the long-roiling anger at Trump among Democratic women, and the deepening disdain for the President among independent and moderate women, who were once willing to give the GOP a chance but now want change in Washington.

Women historically are less likely to turn out in midterm elections. But they are springing from the sidelines to canvass and activate less engaged female voters at campaign headquarters like Hill’s in California’s 25th district, and that of Katie Porter, an Irvine law professor who is challenging Republican Rep. Mimi Walters in the 45th district in Orange County.

Hill, surrounded by young men and women from the University of Southern California who drove north to canvass for her, said, “We have the power right now. This is literally how we change everything. So let’s freakin’ do it.”

Voters like Meryl Cook, a marketing director from Foothill Ranch, describe a new sense of urgency. For her the tipping point was Trump’s tweets about Ford, the California research psychologist who testified that Kavanaugh assaulted her in high school.

“It put me over the edge, I said, ‘Ok, game over, I’m totally behind getting rid of him,’” said Cook, a Democrat in Walters’ district who had tuned out of politics for much of the year due to what she calls “post-election stress trauma.”

“There was a long period of time where I couldn’t even put the news on, because I was so depressed. Now I’m paying more attention,” Cook said during an interview at an Irvine mall. “My goal is to pick candidates and help them campaign.”

That same level of disgust brought Michelle Thomas, 52, and her 23-year-old daughter Brenna to Porter’s headquarters on a recent Saturday where they were trained as first-time canvassers.

In the year of #MeToo, Thomas found Trump’s rhetoric on women appalling. When asked about the drift of female voters away from the GOP, she answered in a word: “Trump.”

“It’s the lack of stability (in the White House). It is the disrespect for women that is incredibly polarizing, and frankly a little bit scary,” said Thomas, a clean energy strategist from Orange, California. The Kavanaugh nomination “just keeps reminding women that he doesn’t have respect for women,” she said. “He doesn’t see women as equal. Anything he does say in support of women is just lip service. His actions do not support it.”

Brenna Thomas, who recently graduated from University of California-Santa Barbara, decided to join her mother on the midterm campaign trail in part because of her regret that she didn’t vote in the 2016 presidential election.

The last two years under Trump have been “a rude awakening, specifically for my generation,” she said, noting the low turnout among millennials in 2016.

“It’s exciting, coming to this place of — you do have the power to actually do something,” Brenna Thomas said after listening to Porter kick off a day of canvassing. “But at the same time, it’s power that needs to be wielded in order to actually do something.”

Here in Orange County, once a Republican stronghold, the excitement is being fueled, in part, by the closeness of the race and the sense that flipping control of the House could come down to a few seats. A recent New York Times Upshot/Siena College poll conducted in late September showed Porter leading Walters 48% to 43% with a 4.5% margin of error.

“I think Trump’s rhetoric just rubs everyone in this community the wrong way,” Porter said in an interview outside her garage-like headquarters. She noted the rich diversity of Orange County (which is now more than a third Hispanic and one fifth Asian): “It’s just not who we are as people.”

Pocketbook issues still rule, however, in close congressional districts across the country, including this one.

But Democrats here have also been helped by Trump’s taunting attitude toward California. In conversations with independent and moderate voters, Porter often argues that Trump and Walters are backing policies at odds with the state’s interests. The Republican tax bill is deeply unpopular here because it reduced state and local deductions.

In a politically nimble move to show independence from her party, Porter said she opposed the state’s Democratic-led increase in the gas tax and that she will support the Republican-led ballot measure that would repeal it.

When asked why women are leaning away from Republican control of Congress, Porter, who has spoken openly about her own history of domestic violence, quickly steered the conversation back to pocketbook issues.

“You want to talk about women’s issues? Let me tell you how hard it is as a parent to make ends meet and try to save for college while I’m paying for daycare,” said Porter, a single mother of three. “It’s not enough to just check the ballot for anyone who has a name that’s a woman. It’s about making sure that you know what that person is doing and what they are fighting for.”

How the GOP lost women

Under the shadow of Trump, the shift among women away from the GOP is stark.

That tilt toward Democrats is stunning when compared against the long-term trend of how white women with college degrees voted in House races.

Exit polling from 1980 to 2016 shows that the best that Democrats have ever done with that group is 53% (twice in 2006 and in 1990).

One of the most prescient observations about the GOP’s troubles with women came earlier this year from former White House strategist Steve Bannon who told Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman that “the Republican college-educated woman is done. … Trump triggers them.”

Countless national polls this year have traced how female support for Republicans tumbled off a cliff after Trump won the White House in 2016. Even before the Kavanaugh nomination became the central focus in Washington, the yawning gender gap was evident.

Sixty percent of women likely voters

polled by CNN recently

said they were leaning toward the Democratic candidate in their congressional race, compared with 36% who said they were more likely to support the Republican. (Among men, 49% were leaning Republican, while 44% were leaning Democrat).

Trump was a negative driving force behind those numbers: 60% of women voters said they were more likely to vote for a congressional candidate who opposes Trump (compared with 30% who said they’d favor a candidate who supports Trump).

While Trump is clearly repelling many college-educated female voters, UCLA political science professor Lynn Vavreck, notes that antipathy toward the President overlays two longer-term trends that spell trouble for Republicans.

“White women are moving away from the Republican Party, that’s been happening. And white college-educated people are moving away,” said Vavreck, a co-author of “Identity Crisis,” a new book about the 2016 election.

“People have created this character out of college-educated women, because they seem to be the leading indicator of this decline for the Republican Party,” Vavreck said. “But the story is about white college-educated people and white women.”

Still, Trump’s role as a driving force in Republican problems at the polls has been evident in interviews over the last year. Many Democratic women were immediately activated by the GOP vote against Obamacare shortly after Trump took office.

First-time female activists protested outside the offices of conservative members of Congress like Darrell Issa, the congressman representing parts of Orange and San Diego counties who ultimately announced he would retire and leave an open seat in California’s 49th district (where the Democratic candidate is now leading, according to the NYT Upshot/Siena College poll).

In interviews late last year, many moderate or independent women who supported Trump — or skipped the presidential line of the ballot altogether in 2016 — said they were exasperated with the President’s tweets and the atmosphere of chaos he sows within his administration.

This year, the mood notably soured on Republicans at various inflection points. Some women were unnerved by Trump’s standoff with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un of North Korea. Then this summer, alarm seemed to peak among women who had a visceral response to children being separated from their parents at the border as a result of the Trump administration’s immigration policies.

Donna Oberg, a 67-year-old retired secretary from Aurora, Colorado, who is an independent, said she got goosebumps when she heard the recordings of young children crying after being separated from their parents.

“He just thinks he can bully everybody,” Oberg said of Trump in an interview earlier this summer in Colorado-6, a closely divided district in the suburbs of Denver. Of Republicans, she added: “I think they are afraid of him. There’s got to be a better way.”

(In a telling move, the Republican super PAC known as the Congressional Leadership Fund recently pulled out of Colorado-6 where they had intended to help GOP Incumbent Mike Coffman in his race against Democratic newcomer Jason Crow).

In Utah-4, where Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams is challenging Republican Congresswoman Mia Love, 72-year-old independent voter Loraina Anderson said she was leaning away from Love for similar reasons, even though Love has openly criticized Trump’s immigration rhetoric and some of his policies.

“I’m just frustrated, not so much with her, but with Trump,” Anderson said in an interview this summer after McAdams showed up at her door while canvassing undecided voters.

“It’s just devastating, just him as a person. The lies,” Anderson said of the President. “The kids being separated. I don’t quite understand why he’s so into Un and (Russian Leader Vladimir) Putin. To me they are horrible men, they torture and do this and that. In my opinion, he wants to become a dictator. He’s following in their footsteps if you ask me.”

Trump’s cavalier attitude during the fight over Kavanaugh’s nomination has become the latest — but perhaps most powerful — rallying cry for women determined to rebuke to his agenda at the polls in November.

Strategists from both sides say the winners in November will be determined by which party has the better turnout game. What’s clear is that Democrats have a lot of female energy on their side.

Pausing outside Hill’s headquarters after picking up her 14-year-old daughter Emma, who attended the discussion on sexual assault, 41-year-old Sara Tisdell described the Kavanaugh debate as “scary” and said she was discouraged watching “our President stoop to the lowest common denominator constantly, and it gets glossed over somehow.”

“When I was her age, I didn’t have the same fears that we were drifting backwards,” said Tisdell, a Democrat who owns a local brewery. “I think we have an opportunity for change. We have an opportunity to continue on a path of moving forward, as opposed to regressing backward as a society.”

Tisdell had been texting her sisters from the parking lot about Katie Hill, and how she’d organized the closed-press event on sexual assault. She doesn’t plan to help canvass, but Emma (who can’t yet vote) is organizing her friends from Valencia High School to knock on doors for Hill.

“It’s easy to be comfortable as a white person in suburbia,” Tisdell said. “We really blew it collectively as a group in the previous election,” she added, referring to women. “Nobody said anything and everybody just kind of went along. … I hope this time people get out and vote.”

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Business

Santa Clarita, California (CNN)On a recent evening in the suburbs of Los Angeles, two dozen women gathered to talk about sexual assault.

They did so at the campaign office of Katie Hill, a Democrat running in a district that has been held by Republicans for more than two decades, and amid the drama unfolding thousands of miles away in Washington, DC, over the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, who stood accused of sexual assault himself.

In this culturally tumultuous moment when Donald Trump seems to believe that Republicans can win the midterm elections in part by stoking a backlash to the #MeToo movement, the most intensely personal experience for 31-year-old Hill — and for so many other women across the country — has suddenly entered the realm of the political.

Hill was sexually assaulted as a teenager, and watching the testimony of Kavanuagh and his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, she and her campaign decided to invite a group of women together to talk about why so many stay silent after a sexual assault.

“It brought up a lot of trauma. … I decided, if we’re reacting like this, if this is happening for us, and you’ve got millions and millions of people across the country who are glued to the TV, then this is happening across the board,” Hill said. “Regardless of what happens with Kavanaugh, this is here. Right? We have to deal with this.”

In interviews with dozens of women in competitive congressional districts across the country, the frustration with Trump — and the impression that Republicans have simply yielded to his whims — has built steadily over the past year and hardened during the Kavanaugh fight as the midterm election approaches.

The prime time ceremonial swearing in of Kavanaugh at the White House on Monday night highlighted a crowning achievement for Trump and conservatives — tipping the ideological balance of the Supreme Court potentially in their favor for generations. Republicans say that the achievement — particularly after the bitterly partisan confirmation fight — will mobilize their base heading into November.

But Kavanaugh’s confirmation battle has also been a galvanizing force for Democratic, independent and even some Republican women and not a singular one.

Long before Trump

mocked Ford’s testimony on stage at a rally in Mississippi

and pronounced the #MeToo era a “very scary time” for young men, his support among women was cratering, dragging the image of the GOP along with it. In CNN’s latest polling, Democrats top Republicans among white female likely voters with college degrees by a 67% to 31% margin.

It is most palpable here in the more than a half-dozen California Congressional districts that could determine control of the House: a convergence of the long-roiling anger at Trump among Democratic women, and the deepening disdain for the President among independent and moderate women, who were once willing to give the GOP a chance but now want change in Washington.

Women historically are less likely to turn out in midterm elections. But they are springing from the sidelines to canvass and activate less engaged female voters at campaign headquarters like Hill’s in California’s 25th district, and that of Katie Porter, an Irvine law professor who is challenging Republican Rep. Mimi Walters in the 45th district in Orange County.

Hill, surrounded by young men and women from the University of Southern California who drove north to canvass for her, said, “We have the power right now. This is literally how we change everything. So let’s freakin’ do it.”

Voters like Meryl Cook, a marketing director from Foothill Ranch, describe a new sense of urgency. For her the tipping point was Trump’s tweets about Ford, the California research psychologist who testified that Kavanaugh assaulted her in high school.

“It put me over the edge, I said, ‘Ok, game over, I’m totally behind getting rid of him,’” said Cook, a Democrat in Walters’ district who had tuned out of politics for much of the year due to what she calls “post-election stress trauma.”

“There was a long period of time where I couldn’t even put the news on, because I was so depressed. Now I’m paying more attention,” Cook said during an interview at an Irvine mall. “My goal is to pick candidates and help them campaign.”

That same level of disgust brought Michelle Thomas, 52, and her 23-year-old daughter Brenna to Porter’s headquarters on a recent Saturday where they were trained as first-time canvassers.

In the year of #MeToo, Thomas found Trump’s rhetoric on women appalling. When asked about the drift of female voters away from the GOP, she answered in a word: “Trump.”

“It’s the lack of stability (in the White House). It is the disrespect for women that is incredibly polarizing, and frankly a little bit scary,” said Thomas, a clean energy strategist from Orange, California. The Kavanaugh nomination “just keeps reminding women that he doesn’t have respect for women,” she said. “He doesn’t see women as equal. Anything he does say in support of women is just lip service. His actions do not support it.”

Brenna Thomas, who recently graduated from University of California-Santa Barbara, decided to join her mother on the midterm campaign trail in part because of her regret that she didn’t vote in the 2016 presidential election.

The last two years under Trump have been “a rude awakening, specifically for my generation,” she said, noting the low turnout among millennials in 2016.

“It’s exciting, coming to this place of — you do have the power to actually do something,” Brenna Thomas said after listening to Porter kick off a day of canvassing. “But at the same time, it’s power that needs to be wielded in order to actually do something.”

Here in Orange County, once a Republican stronghold, the excitement is being fueled, in part, by the closeness of the race and the sense that flipping control of the House could come down to a few seats. A recent New York Times Upshot/Siena College poll conducted in late September showed Porter leading Walters 48% to 43% with a 4.5% margin of error.

“I think Trump’s rhetoric just rubs everyone in this community the wrong way,” Porter said in an interview outside her garage-like headquarters. She noted the rich diversity of Orange County (which is now more than a third Hispanic and one fifth Asian): “It’s just not who we are as people.”

Pocketbook issues still rule, however, in close congressional districts across the country, including this one.

But Democrats here have also been helped by Trump’s taunting attitude toward California. In conversations with independent and moderate voters, Porter often argues that Trump and Walters are backing policies at odds with the state’s interests. The Republican tax bill is deeply unpopular here because it reduced state and local deductions.

In a politically nimble move to show independence from her party, Porter said she opposed the state’s Democratic-led increase in the gas tax and that she will support the Republican-led ballot measure that would repeal it.

When asked why women are leaning away from Republican control of Congress, Porter, who has spoken openly about her own history of domestic violence, quickly steered the conversation back to pocketbook issues.

“You want to talk about women’s issues? Let me tell you how hard it is as a parent to make ends meet and try to save for college while I’m paying for daycare,” said Porter, a single mother of three. “It’s not enough to just check the ballot for anyone who has a name that’s a woman. It’s about making sure that you know what that person is doing and what they are fighting for.”

How the GOP lost women

Under the shadow of Trump, the shift among women away from the GOP is stark.

That tilt toward Democrats is stunning when compared against the long-term trend of how white women with college degrees voted in House races.

Exit polling from 1980 to 2016 shows that the best that Democrats have ever done with that group is 53% (twice in 2006 and in 1990).

One of the most prescient observations about the GOP’s troubles with women came earlier this year from former White House strategist Steve Bannon who told Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman that “the Republican college-educated woman is done. … Trump triggers them.”

Countless national polls this year have traced how female support for Republicans tumbled off a cliff after Trump won the White House in 2016. Even before the Kavanaugh nomination became the central focus in Washington, the yawning gender gap was evident.

Sixty percent of women likely voters

polled by CNN recently

said they were leaning toward the Democratic candidate in their congressional race, compared with 36% who said they were more likely to support the Republican. (Among men, 49% were leaning Republican, while 44% were leaning Democrat).

Trump was a negative driving force behind those numbers: 60% of women voters said they were more likely to vote for a congressional candidate who opposes Trump (compared with 30% who said they’d favor a candidate who supports Trump).

While Trump is clearly repelling many college-educated female voters, UCLA political science professor Lynn Vavreck, notes that antipathy toward the President overlays two longer-term trends that spell trouble for Republicans.

“White women are moving away from the Republican Party, that’s been happening. And white college-educated people are moving away,” said Vavreck, a co-author of “Identity Crisis,” a new book about the 2016 election.

“People have created this character out of college-educated women, because they seem to be the leading indicator of this decline for the Republican Party,” Vavreck said. “But the story is about white college-educated people and white women.”

Still, Trump’s role as a driving force in Republican problems at the polls has been evident in interviews over the last year. Many Democratic women were immediately activated by the GOP vote against Obamacare shortly after Trump took office.

First-time female activists protested outside the offices of conservative members of Congress like Darrell Issa, the congressman representing parts of Orange and San Diego counties who ultimately announced he would retire and leave an open seat in California’s 49th district (where the Democratic candidate is now leading, according to the NYT Upshot/Siena College poll).

In interviews late last year, many moderate or independent women who supported Trump — or skipped the presidential line of the ballot altogether in 2016 — said they were exasperated with the President’s tweets and the atmosphere of chaos he sows within his administration.

This year, the mood notably soured on Republicans at various inflection points. Some women were unnerved by Trump’s standoff with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un of North Korea. Then this summer, alarm seemed to peak among women who had a visceral response to children being separated from their parents at the border as a result of the Trump administration’s immigration policies.

Donna Oberg, a 67-year-old retired secretary from Aurora, Colorado, who is an independent, said she got goosebumps when she heard the recordings of young children crying after being separated from their parents.

“He just thinks he can bully everybody,” Oberg said of Trump in an interview earlier this summer in Colorado-6, a closely divided district in the suburbs of Denver. Of Republicans, she added: “I think they are afraid of him. There’s got to be a better way.”

(In a telling move, the Republican super PAC known as the Congressional Leadership Fund recently pulled out of Colorado-6 where they had intended to help GOP Incumbent Mike Coffman in his race against Democratic newcomer Jason Crow).

In Utah-4, where Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams is challenging Republican Congresswoman Mia Love, 72-year-old independent voter Loraina Anderson said she was leaning away from Love for similar reasons, even though Love has openly criticized Trump’s immigration rhetoric and some of his policies.

“I’m just frustrated, not so much with her, but with Trump,” Anderson said in an interview this summer after McAdams showed up at her door while canvassing undecided voters.

“It’s just devastating, just him as a person. The lies,” Anderson said of the President. “The kids being separated. I don’t quite understand why he’s so into Un and (Russian Leader Vladimir) Putin. To me they are horrible men, they torture and do this and that. In my opinion, he wants to become a dictator. He’s following in their footsteps if you ask me.”

Trump’s cavalier attitude during the fight over Kavanaugh’s nomination has become the latest — but perhaps most powerful — rallying cry for women determined to rebuke to his agenda at the polls in November.

Strategists from both sides say the winners in November will be determined by which party has the better turnout game. What’s clear is that Democrats have a lot of female energy on their side.

Pausing outside Hill’s headquarters after picking up her 14-year-old daughter Emma, who attended the discussion on sexual assault, 41-year-old Sara Tisdell described the Kavanaugh debate as “scary” and said she was discouraged watching “our President stoop to the lowest common denominator constantly, and it gets glossed over somehow.”

“When I was her age, I didn’t have the same fears that we were drifting backwards,” said Tisdell, a Democrat who owns a local brewery. “I think we have an opportunity for change. We have an opportunity to continue on a path of moving forward, as opposed to regressing backward as a society.”

Tisdell had been texting her sisters from the parking lot about Katie Hill, and how she’d organized the closed-press event on sexual assault. She doesn’t plan to help canvass, but Emma (who can’t yet vote) is organizing her friends from Valencia High School to knock on doors for Hill.

“It’s easy to be comfortable as a white person in suburbia,” Tisdell said. “We really blew it collectively as a group in the previous election,” she added, referring to women. “Nobody said anything and everybody just kind of went along. … I hope this time people get out and vote.”

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Santa Clarita, California (CNN)On a recent evening in the suburbs of Los Angeles, two dozen women gathered to talk about sexual assault.

They did so at the campaign office of Katie Hill, a Democrat running in a district that has been held by Republicans for more than two decades, and amid the drama unfolding thousands of miles away in Washington, DC, over the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, who stood accused of sexual assault himself.

In this culturally tumultuous moment when Donald Trump seems to believe that Republicans can win the midterm elections in part by stoking a backlash to the #MeToo movement, the most intensely personal experience for 31-year-old Hill — and for so many other women across the country — has suddenly entered the realm of the political.

Hill was sexually assaulted as a teenager, and watching the testimony of Kavanuagh and his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, she and her campaign decided to invite a group of women together to talk about why so many stay silent after a sexual assault.

“It brought up a lot of trauma. … I decided, if we’re reacting like this, if this is happening for us, and you’ve got millions and millions of people across the country who are glued to the TV, then this is happening across the board,” Hill said. “Regardless of what happens with Kavanaugh, this is here. Right? We have to deal with this.”

In interviews with dozens of women in competitive congressional districts across the country, the frustration with Trump — and the impression that Republicans have simply yielded to his whims — has built steadily over the past year and hardened during the Kavanaugh fight as the midterm election approaches.

The prime time ceremonial swearing in of Kavanaugh at the White House on Monday night highlighted a crowning achievement for Trump and conservatives — tipping the ideological balance of the Supreme Court potentially in their favor for generations. Republicans say that the achievement — particularly after the bitterly partisan confirmation fight — will mobilize their base heading into November.

But Kavanaugh’s confirmation battle has also been a galvanizing force for Democratic, independent and even some Republican women and not a singular one.

Long before Trump

mocked Ford’s testimony on stage at a rally in Mississippi

and pronounced the #MeToo era a “very scary time” for young men, his support among women was cratering, dragging the image of the GOP along with it. In CNN’s latest polling, Democrats top Republicans among white female likely voters with college degrees by a 67% to 31% margin.

It is most palpable here in the more than a half-dozen California Congressional districts that could determine control of the House: a convergence of the long-roiling anger at Trump among Democratic women, and the deepening disdain for the President among independent and moderate women, who were once willing to give the GOP a chance but now want change in Washington.

Women historically are less likely to turn out in midterm elections. But they are springing from the sidelines to canvass and activate less engaged female voters at campaign headquarters like Hill’s in California’s 25th district, and that of Katie Porter, an Irvine law professor who is challenging Republican Rep. Mimi Walters in the 45th district in Orange County.

Hill, surrounded by young men and women from the University of Southern California who drove north to canvass for her, said, “We have the power right now. This is literally how we change everything. So let’s freakin’ do it.”

Voters like Meryl Cook, a marketing director from Foothill Ranch, describe a new sense of urgency. For her the tipping point was Trump’s tweets about Ford, the California research psychologist who testified that Kavanaugh assaulted her in high school.

“It put me over the edge, I said, ‘Ok, game over, I’m totally behind getting rid of him,’” said Cook, a Democrat in Walters’ district who had tuned out of politics for much of the year due to what she calls “post-election stress trauma.”

“There was a long period of time where I couldn’t even put the news on, because I was so depressed. Now I’m paying more attention,” Cook said during an interview at an Irvine mall. “My goal is to pick candidates and help them campaign.”

That same level of disgust brought Michelle Thomas, 52, and her 23-year-old daughter Brenna to Porter’s headquarters on a recent Saturday where they were trained as first-time canvassers.

In the year of #MeToo, Thomas found Trump’s rhetoric on women appalling. When asked about the drift of female voters away from the GOP, she answered in a word: “Trump.”

“It’s the lack of stability (in the White House). It is the disrespect for women that is incredibly polarizing, and frankly a little bit scary,” said Thomas, a clean energy strategist from Orange, California. The Kavanaugh nomination “just keeps reminding women that he doesn’t have respect for women,” she said. “He doesn’t see women as equal. Anything he does say in support of women is just lip service. His actions do not support it.”

Brenna Thomas, who recently graduated from University of California-Santa Barbara, decided to join her mother on the midterm campaign trail in part because of her regret that she didn’t vote in the 2016 presidential election.

The last two years under Trump have been “a rude awakening, specifically for my generation,” she said, noting the low turnout among millennials in 2016.

“It’s exciting, coming to this place of — you do have the power to actually do something,” Brenna Thomas said after listening to Porter kick off a day of canvassing. “But at the same time, it’s power that needs to be wielded in order to actually do something.”

Here in Orange County, once a Republican stronghold, the excitement is being fueled, in part, by the closeness of the race and the sense that flipping control of the House could come down to a few seats. A recent New York Times Upshot/Siena College poll conducted in late September showed Porter leading Walters 48% to 43% with a 4.5% margin of error.

“I think Trump’s rhetoric just rubs everyone in this community the wrong way,” Porter said in an interview outside her garage-like headquarters. She noted the rich diversity of Orange County (which is now more than a third Hispanic and one fifth Asian): “It’s just not who we are as people.”

Pocketbook issues still rule, however, in close congressional districts across the country, including this one.

But Democrats here have also been helped by Trump’s taunting attitude toward California. In conversations with independent and moderate voters, Porter often argues that Trump and Walters are backing policies at odds with the state’s interests. The Republican tax bill is deeply unpopular here because it reduced state and local deductions.

In a politically nimble move to show independence from her party, Porter said she opposed the state’s Democratic-led increase in the gas tax and that she will support the Republican-led ballot measure that would repeal it.

When asked why women are leaning away from Republican control of Congress, Porter, who has spoken openly about her own history of domestic violence, quickly steered the conversation back to pocketbook issues.

“You want to talk about women’s issues? Let me tell you how hard it is as a parent to make ends meet and try to save for college while I’m paying for daycare,” said Porter, a single mother of three. “It’s not enough to just check the ballot for anyone who has a name that’s a woman. It’s about making sure that you know what that person is doing and what they are fighting for.”

How the GOP lost women

Under the shadow of Trump, the shift among women away from the GOP is stark.

That tilt toward Democrats is stunning when compared against the long-term trend of how white women with college degrees voted in House races.

Exit polling from 1980 to 2016 shows that the best that Democrats have ever done with that group is 53% (twice in 2006 and in 1990).

One of the most prescient observations about the GOP’s troubles with women came earlier this year from former White House strategist Steve Bannon who told Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman that “the Republican college-educated woman is done. … Trump triggers them.”

Countless national polls this year have traced how female support for Republicans tumbled off a cliff after Trump won the White House in 2016. Even before the Kavanaugh nomination became the central focus in Washington, the yawning gender gap was evident.

Sixty percent of women likely voters

polled by CNN recently

said they were leaning toward the Democratic candidate in their congressional race, compared with 36% who said they were more likely to support the Republican. (Among men, 49% were leaning Republican, while 44% were leaning Democrat).

Trump was a negative driving force behind those numbers: 60% of women voters said they were more likely to vote for a congressional candidate who opposes Trump (compared with 30% who said they’d favor a candidate who supports Trump).

While Trump is clearly repelling many college-educated female voters, UCLA political science professor Lynn Vavreck, notes that antipathy toward the President overlays two longer-term trends that spell trouble for Republicans.

“White women are moving away from the Republican Party, that’s been happening. And white college-educated people are moving away,” said Vavreck, a co-author of “Identity Crisis,” a new book about the 2016 election.

“People have created this character out of college-educated women, because they seem to be the leading indicator of this decline for the Republican Party,” Vavreck said. “But the story is about white college-educated people and white women.”

Still, Trump’s role as a driving force in Republican problems at the polls has been evident in interviews over the last year. Many Democratic women were immediately activated by the GOP vote against Obamacare shortly after Trump took office.

First-time female activists protested outside the offices of conservative members of Congress like Darrell Issa, the congressman representing parts of Orange and San Diego counties who ultimately announced he would retire and leave an open seat in California’s 49th district (where the Democratic candidate is now leading, according to the NYT Upshot/Siena College poll).

In interviews late last year, many moderate or independent women who supported Trump — or skipped the presidential line of the ballot altogether in 2016 — said they were exasperated with the President’s tweets and the atmosphere of chaos he sows within his administration.

This year, the mood notably soured on Republicans at various inflection points. Some women were unnerved by Trump’s standoff with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un of North Korea. Then this summer, alarm seemed to peak among women who had a visceral response to children being separated from their parents at the border as a result of the Trump administration’s immigration policies.

Donna Oberg, a 67-year-old retired secretary from Aurora, Colorado, who is an independent, said she got goosebumps when she heard the recordings of young children crying after being separated from their parents.

“He just thinks he can bully everybody,” Oberg said of Trump in an interview earlier this summer in Colorado-6, a closely divided district in the suburbs of Denver. Of Republicans, she added: “I think they are afraid of him. There’s got to be a better way.”

(In a telling move, the Republican super PAC known as the Congressional Leadership Fund recently pulled out of Colorado-6 where they had intended to help GOP Incumbent Mike Coffman in his race against Democratic newcomer Jason Crow).

In Utah-4, where Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams is challenging Republican Congresswoman Mia Love, 72-year-old independent voter Loraina Anderson said she was leaning away from Love for similar reasons, even though Love has openly criticized Trump’s immigration rhetoric and some of his policies.

“I’m just frustrated, not so much with her, but with Trump,” Anderson said in an interview this summer after McAdams showed up at her door while canvassing undecided voters.

“It’s just devastating, just him as a person. The lies,” Anderson said of the President. “The kids being separated. I don’t quite understand why he’s so into Un and (Russian Leader Vladimir) Putin. To me they are horrible men, they torture and do this and that. In my opinion, he wants to become a dictator. He’s following in their footsteps if you ask me.”

Trump’s cavalier attitude during the fight over Kavanaugh’s nomination has become the latest — but perhaps most powerful — rallying cry for women determined to rebuke to his agenda at the polls in November.

Strategists from both sides say the winners in November will be determined by which party has the better turnout game. What’s clear is that Democrats have a lot of female energy on their side.

Pausing outside Hill’s headquarters after picking up her 14-year-old daughter Emma, who attended the discussion on sexual assault, 41-year-old Sara Tisdell described the Kavanaugh debate as “scary” and said she was discouraged watching “our President stoop to the lowest common denominator constantly, and it gets glossed over somehow.”

“When I was her age, I didn’t have the same fears that we were drifting backwards,” said Tisdell, a Democrat who owns a local brewery. “I think we have an opportunity for change. We have an opportunity to continue on a path of moving forward, as opposed to regressing backward as a society.”

Tisdell had been texting her sisters from the parking lot about Katie Hill, and how she’d organized the closed-press event on sexual assault. She doesn’t plan to help canvass, but Emma (who can’t yet vote) is organizing her friends from Valencia High School to knock on doors for Hill.

“It’s easy to be comfortable as a white person in suburbia,” Tisdell said. “We really blew it collectively as a group in the previous election,” she added, referring to women. “Nobody said anything and everybody just kind of went along. … I hope this time people get out and vote.”

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Santa Clarita, California (CNN)On a recent evening in the suburbs of Los Angeles, two dozen women gathered to talk about sexual assault.

They did so at the campaign office of Katie Hill, a Democrat running in a district that has been held by Republicans for more than two decades, and amid the drama unfolding thousands of miles away in Washington, DC, over the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, who stood accused of sexual assault himself.

In this culturally tumultuous moment when Donald Trump seems to believe that Republicans can win the midterm elections in part by stoking a backlash to the #MeToo movement, the most intensely personal experience for 31-year-old Hill — and for so many other women across the country — has suddenly entered the realm of the political.

Hill was sexually assaulted as a teenager, and watching the testimony of Kavanuagh and his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, she and her campaign decided to invite a group of women together to talk about why so many stay silent after a sexual assault.

“It brought up a lot of trauma. … I decided, if we’re reacting like this, if this is happening for us, and you’ve got millions and millions of people across the country who are glued to the TV, then this is happening across the board,” Hill said. “Regardless of what happens with Kavanaugh, this is here. Right? We have to deal with this.”

In interviews with dozens of women in competitive congressional districts across the country, the frustration with Trump — and the impression that Republicans have simply yielded to his whims — has built steadily over the past year and hardened during the Kavanaugh fight as the midterm election approaches.

The prime time ceremonial swearing in of Kavanaugh at the White House on Monday night highlighted a crowning achievement for Trump and conservatives — tipping the ideological balance of the Supreme Court potentially in their favor for generations. Republicans say that the achievement — particularly after the bitterly partisan confirmation fight — will mobilize their base heading into November.

But Kavanaugh’s confirmation battle has also been a galvanizing force for Democratic, independent and even some Republican women and not a singular one.

Long before Trump

mocked Ford’s testimony on stage at a rally in Mississippi

and pronounced the #MeToo era a “very scary time” for young men, his support among women was cratering, dragging the image of the GOP along with it. In CNN’s latest polling, Democrats top Republicans among white female likely voters with college degrees by a 67% to 31% margin.

It is most palpable here in the more than a half-dozen California Congressional districts that could determine control of the House: a convergence of the long-roiling anger at Trump among Democratic women, and the deepening disdain for the President among independent and moderate women, who were once willing to give the GOP a chance but now want change in Washington.

Women historically are less likely to turn out in midterm elections. But they are springing from the sidelines to canvass and activate less engaged female voters at campaign headquarters like Hill’s in California’s 25th district, and that of Katie Porter, an Irvine law professor who is challenging Republican Rep. Mimi Walters in the 45th district in Orange County.

Hill, surrounded by young men and women from the University of Southern California who drove north to canvass for her, said, “We have the power right now. This is literally how we change everything. So let’s freakin’ do it.”

Voters like Meryl Cook, a marketing director from Foothill Ranch, describe a new sense of urgency. For her the tipping point was Trump’s tweets about Ford, the California research psychologist who testified that Kavanaugh assaulted her in high school.

“It put me over the edge, I said, ‘Ok, game over, I’m totally behind getting rid of him,’” said Cook, a Democrat in Walters’ district who had tuned out of politics for much of the year due to what she calls “post-election stress trauma.”

“There was a long period of time where I couldn’t even put the news on, because I was so depressed. Now I’m paying more attention,” Cook said during an interview at an Irvine mall. “My goal is to pick candidates and help them campaign.”

That same level of disgust brought Michelle Thomas, 52, and her 23-year-old daughter Brenna to Porter’s headquarters on a recent Saturday where they were trained as first-time canvassers.

In the year of #MeToo, Thomas found Trump’s rhetoric on women appalling. When asked about the drift of female voters away from the GOP, she answered in a word: “Trump.”

“It’s the lack of stability (in the White House). It is the disrespect for women that is incredibly polarizing, and frankly a little bit scary,” said Thomas, a clean energy strategist from Orange, California. The Kavanaugh nomination “just keeps reminding women that he doesn’t have respect for women,” she said. “He doesn’t see women as equal. Anything he does say in support of women is just lip service. His actions do not support it.”

Brenna Thomas, who recently graduated from University of California-Santa Barbara, decided to join her mother on the midterm campaign trail in part because of her regret that she didn’t vote in the 2016 presidential election.

The last two years under Trump have been “a rude awakening, specifically for my generation,” she said, noting the low turnout among millennials in 2016.

“It’s exciting, coming to this place of — you do have the power to actually do something,” Brenna Thomas said after listening to Porter kick off a day of canvassing. “But at the same time, it’s power that needs to be wielded in order to actually do something.”

Here in Orange County, once a Republican stronghold, the excitement is being fueled, in part, by the closeness of the race and the sense that flipping control of the House could come down to a few seats. A recent New York Times Upshot/Siena College poll conducted in late September showed Porter leading Walters 48% to 43% with a 4.5% margin of error.

“I think Trump’s rhetoric just rubs everyone in this community the wrong way,” Porter said in an interview outside her garage-like headquarters. She noted the rich diversity of Orange County (which is now more than a third Hispanic and one fifth Asian): “It’s just not who we are as people.”

Pocketbook issues still rule, however, in close congressional districts across the country, including this one.

But Democrats here have also been helped by Trump’s taunting attitude toward California. In conversations with independent and moderate voters, Porter often argues that Trump and Walters are backing policies at odds with the state’s interests. The Republican tax bill is deeply unpopular here because it reduced state and local deductions.

In a politically nimble move to show independence from her party, Porter said she opposed the state’s Democratic-led increase in the gas tax and that she will support the Republican-led ballot measure that would repeal it.

When asked why women are leaning away from Republican control of Congress, Porter, who has spoken openly about her own history of domestic violence, quickly steered the conversation back to pocketbook issues.

“You want to talk about women’s issues? Let me tell you how hard it is as a parent to make ends meet and try to save for college while I’m paying for daycare,” said Porter, a single mother of three. “It’s not enough to just check the ballot for anyone who has a name that’s a woman. It’s about making sure that you know what that person is doing and what they are fighting for.”

How the GOP lost women

Under the shadow of Trump, the shift among women away from the GOP is stark.

That tilt toward Democrats is stunning when compared against the long-term trend of how white women with college degrees voted in House races.

Exit polling from 1980 to 2016 shows that the best that Democrats have ever done with that group is 53% (twice in 2006 and in 1990).

One of the most prescient observations about the GOP’s troubles with women came earlier this year from former White House strategist Steve Bannon who told Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman that “the Republican college-educated woman is done. … Trump triggers them.”

Countless national polls this year have traced how female support for Republicans tumbled off a cliff after Trump won the White House in 2016. Even before the Kavanaugh nomination became the central focus in Washington, the yawning gender gap was evident.

Sixty percent of women likely voters

polled by CNN recently

said they were leaning toward the Democratic candidate in their congressional race, compared with 36% who said they were more likely to support the Republican. (Among men, 49% were leaning Republican, while 44% were leaning Democrat).

Trump was a negative driving force behind those numbers: 60% of women voters said they were more likely to vote for a congressional candidate who opposes Trump (compared with 30% who said they’d favor a candidate who supports Trump).

While Trump is clearly repelling many college-educated female voters, UCLA political science professor Lynn Vavreck, notes that antipathy toward the President overlays two longer-term trends that spell trouble for Republicans.

“White women are moving away from the Republican Party, that’s been happening. And white college-educated people are moving away,” said Vavreck, a co-author of “Identity Crisis,” a new book about the 2016 election.

“People have created this character out of college-educated women, because they seem to be the leading indicator of this decline for the Republican Party,” Vavreck said. “But the story is about white college-educated people and white women.”

Still, Trump’s role as a driving force in Republican problems at the polls has been evident in interviews over the last year. Many Democratic women were immediately activated by the GOP vote against Obamacare shortly after Trump took office.

First-time female activists protested outside the offices of conservative members of Congress like Darrell Issa, the congressman representing parts of Orange and San Diego counties who ultimately announced he would retire and leave an open seat in California’s 49th district (where the Democratic candidate is now leading, according to the NYT Upshot/Siena College poll).

In interviews late last year, many moderate or independent women who supported Trump — or skipped the presidential line of the ballot altogether in 2016 — said they were exasperated with the President’s tweets and the atmosphere of chaos he sows within his administration.

This year, the mood notably soured on Republicans at various inflection points. Some women were unnerved by Trump’s standoff with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un of North Korea. Then this summer, alarm seemed to peak among women who had a visceral response to children being separated from their parents at the border as a result of the Trump administration’s immigration policies.

Donna Oberg, a 67-year-old retired secretary from Aurora, Colorado, who is an independent, said she got goosebumps when she heard the recordings of young children crying after being separated from their parents.

“He just thinks he can bully everybody,” Oberg said of Trump in an interview earlier this summer in Colorado-6, a closely divided district in the suburbs of Denver. Of Republicans, she added: “I think they are afraid of him. There’s got to be a better way.”

(In a telling move, the Republican super PAC known as the Congressional Leadership Fund recently pulled out of Colorado-6 where they had intended to help GOP Incumbent Mike Coffman in his race against Democratic newcomer Jason Crow).

In Utah-4, where Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams is challenging Republican Congresswoman Mia Love, 72-year-old independent voter Loraina Anderson said she was leaning away from Love for similar reasons, even though Love has openly criticized Trump’s immigration rhetoric and some of his policies.

“I’m just frustrated, not so much with her, but with Trump,” Anderson said in an interview this summer after McAdams showed up at her door while canvassing undecided voters.

“It’s just devastating, just him as a person. The lies,” Anderson said of the President. “The kids being separated. I don’t quite understand why he’s so into Un and (Russian Leader Vladimir) Putin. To me they are horrible men, they torture and do this and that. In my opinion, he wants to become a dictator. He’s following in their footsteps if you ask me.”

Trump’s cavalier attitude during the fight over Kavanaugh’s nomination has become the latest — but perhaps most powerful — rallying cry for women determined to rebuke to his agenda at the polls in November.

Strategists from both sides say the winners in November will be determined by which party has the better turnout game. What’s clear is that Democrats have a lot of female energy on their side.

Pausing outside Hill’s headquarters after picking up her 14-year-old daughter Emma, who attended the discussion on sexual assault, 41-year-old Sara Tisdell described the Kavanaugh debate as “scary” and said she was discouraged watching “our President stoop to the lowest common denominator constantly, and it gets glossed over somehow.”

“When I was her age, I didn’t have the same fears that we were drifting backwards,” said Tisdell, a Democrat who owns a local brewery. “I think we have an opportunity for change. We have an opportunity to continue on a path of moving forward, as opposed to regressing backward as a society.”

Tisdell had been texting her sisters from the parking lot about Katie Hill, and how she’d organized the closed-press event on sexual assault. She doesn’t plan to help canvass, but Emma (who can’t yet vote) is organizing her friends from Valencia High School to knock on doors for Hill.

“It’s easy to be comfortable as a white person in suburbia,” Tisdell said. “We really blew it collectively as a group in the previous election,” she added, referring to women. “Nobody said anything and everybody just kind of went along. … I hope this time people get out and vote.”

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