In the end, the women’s vote did not decisively hand Obama a win last night, as Nate Silver and the Obama campaign had been hinting in the days before the election. After all the wooing and pleading, the emails in the style of a pining ex-lover, the specially tailored “Julia” slideshows that served as the campaign equivalent of a mix tape, women gave Obama almost exactly what they gave him four years ago and—according to many exit polls—even a little less.