Single Women Gaining Political Clout (Democrats fund political project through non-partisan sources)

Yahoo ^ | 12/16/03 | Jagrmeister

[jagrmeister]

By ELIZABETH WOLFE, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Forget about soccer moms. The prized voter of next year's presidential election could be single women, according to a new study.

But they need to get to the polls.

Using census and other voting data analyzed by two Democratic polling firms , the study released Tuesday found there would have been 6 million more ballots to count in 2000 if single women had voted at the same rate as their married counterparts.

The study, the first phase of a project designed to help get single women to the polls, showed that they are the largest nonvoting group and also one of the most dissatisfied with the country's direction.

Exit poll data from the 2000 election indicates that more single women voting next November could help the Democratic presidential nominee. Republican George W. Bush slightly edged out Al Gore (news - web sites) among married women, while unmarried women preferred Democrat Gore by more than 30 percentage points.

Study authors Christina Desser and Page Gardner, who received funding from some nonpartisan sources for their broader project, "Women's Voices. Women Vote.," said one reason single women stay home on Election Day is because they think their concerns about education, jobs and health care are routinely ignored.

Economically, single women are not the most attractive group for politicians to court, with half earning less than $30,000 a year, compared with a quarter of married women, said Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg.

"Politics is very much about the family (news - web sites), the kids, and people in retirement. It's not about the marginality of the single person," Greenberg said.

In 2000, nearly 22 million unmarried women who were registered to vote did not, while another 16 million did not register. That year, 68 percent of registered married women voted compared with 52 percent of unmarried women, the study said.

To help encourage single women to vote, the project is organizing a radio and television advertising campaign for voter outreach groups around the country.

As part of the study, the Democratic polling firms of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research and Lake Snell Perry & Associates surveyed 1,036 unmarried women, ages 18-65, nationwide in October and November.

[jagrmeister]

How squirrely is this? Two researchers (likely Democrats) obtain funding from non-partisan sources- use it to research a core Democratic voting bloc on how to turn out their vote, and then will run a tv/radio campaign to get them to the polls.

The non-partisan sources of this project should be identified of the political nature of this project. And if they already know or don't care, they should be stripped of their tax-exempt status.

[speedy]

Republicans should counter this by organizing a dating service for these single women. Once they get into good relationships, they convert to the GOP. It's diabolical!!

[jagrmeister]

LOL. Actually, I have a plan up my sleeve. I really do. I'll let you know when I have more info.

[jagrmeister]

Here is info on Desser:

Christina Desser
Environmental attorney, executive dirextor of Earth Day 1990, director of the Migratory Species Project, board member of Whole Earth Review, Rainforest Action Network, and Mother Jones Magazine.
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Gee, I wonder if she's a leftist or not? Don't the "non-partisan" sources do their homework before funding these political front operations.

[reed_inthe_wind]

The left will try to galvinize this group by telling the girls that Islam is the religion of "piece" not "peace", and its all George W Bushs fault. Karl Rove better get going.

[Diogenesis]

[concerned about politics]

while unmarried women preferred Democrat Gore by more than 30 percentage points.

It was the Rolling Stone air brush "package." He gained an extra foot of "manhood" with that one! I'm sure it brought out the hungry gay vote as well.

The good women, the kind men would actually want to marry, still voted Republican.

[speedy]

I await your master plan. In the meantime, I will round up eligible GOP men ready to serve the cause.

[Askel5]

=== Once they get into good relationships, they convert to the GOP.

You think so? Lots of the GOP men I know "agree to disagree" (or end up divorced from) their liberal wives.

The women of FR aside, most political active women are liberal. Primarily because the left does a much better job at appealing to their "independent minds" even as they feed 'em a steady line of agit-prop courtesy of Emily's List, etc.

Most of the firebrands who baked bread along with Eleanor and Phyllis in the early 70's as they rallied to stop ERA in its tracks are retired or dead. Plenty of GOP women seem content to limit their activities to "voting in Republicans" or supporting the same-old same-old potempkin pro-life and other issues organizations who've had them paddling in circles now and accomplishing nothing of substance for over a generation.

And don't get me started on how depressing it is to see otherwise intelligent conservative women oooh and aaah over candidates like they were picking Mr. Prom. At least the leftists get something -- like a perfect record in support of abortion -- for pulling out their kneepads.

It's a pity we can't roll back time and keep ALL women OUT of the polls. Period.

[jagrmeister]

Sounds good.

In the meanwhile, I found the G2 on Page Gardner. She is a Democrat strategist who worked for the Bill Bradley Presidential campaign. This reeks of politics. Somewhere along the line, some innocent people gave money to non-partisan non-profits and this money is now in the hands of rank partisans for political operations. Someone needs to expose this.

[sphinx]

A third of all children born in the U.S. are illegitimate. That usually means their moms are married to the government. Then add in sexually promiscuous young women for whom abortion is a sacrament. Those two groups account for most of the gender gap.

[Gunslingr3]

Exit poll data from the 2000 election indicates that more single women voting next November could help the Democratic presidential nominee. Republican George W. Bush slightly edged out Al Gore (news - web sites) among married women, while unmarried women preferred Democrat Gore by more than 30 percentage points.

In related news, women more likely to be on the recieving end of a government check vote for Democrats...

[speedy]

I was mostly being facetious. But any surveys I've seen show that the voting patterns of married women are only slightly less Republican than those of men in general. I agree with you that there are far too many liberal women out there and that the activists tend to be liberal. Ann Coulter goes on about this a lot. However, my wife was a liberal Democrat when I met her and is now if anything further to the right than me (although there isn't that much room to my right.) So maybe I'm reacting to my own success story.

[concerned about politics]

The women of FR aside, most political active women are liberal. Primarily because the left does a much better job at appealing to their "independent minds" even as they feed 'em a steady line of agit-prop courtesy of Emily's List, etc.

I think they vote left because they use the government as their serrogate husband. They can't keep a real one. They're total bit*hes.
The government (taxpayers) pays their bills for them and give them the "love and attention" they crave.

[WOSG]

It is called "nonpartisan" but it is likely leftist foundations. Did you know that leftist foundations bankroll PBS' Bill Moyers? And the campaign to get 'finance reform' done was bankrolled by foundations?

A lot of political activism happens behind the scenes with those groups.

[Askel5]

=== I think they vote left because they use the government as their serrogate husband.

Excellent point!

[WOSG]

Speedy you are right.

The Federal Government by and large transfers money from taxpaying males to dependent females, either of the old and on medicare and social security, or the unmarried and with kids and on welfare variety.

The dependency factor is it!

"However, my wife was a liberal Democrat when I met her and is now if anything further to the right than me (although there isn't that much room to my right.) So maybe I'm reacting to my own success story."

Tell me your secret, I would love to bring my family back from the 'dark side'.

[familyop]

Repeal or otherwise permanently break the VAWA and the Child Support Act. That's the way Republicans can immediately gain millions of voters who are men, bring the marriage rate up and the divorce rate down. Otherwise, it'll be all Dems, forever, sooner or later. And Senate Repubs did turn on us and families in general with those enticement/"gender gap" laws.

I'll vote Republican, but many others are leaning either toward no-votes or voting for congressional Dems out of anger. And let's see, now, how many divorced and single men are in the USA? I know that one men's rights news site is getting approximately 50,000 readers per day.

Here's one man's column, and many more are starting to look that way.

What have Republicans done for us lately?
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1036911/posts

And here's my piece, just to let you see my sincerety and what goes on with so many who vote but don't show at conventions.

The Federal Marriage Amendment - Fathers' Rights Activists Weigh In
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1039923/posts

I try.

[Lady Eileen]

I think they vote left because they use the government as their serrogate husband.

So true.