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No rings, 53 million strong: Unmarried women could change election
sfgate.com ^ | 11/27/07 | Joe Garofoli

Posted on 11/27/2007 4:30:42 AM PST by TornadoAlley3

Fifty-year-old Carmen Cortez cleans buildings until 1 a.m. as a janitor in San Francisco and lives with her adult son. Courtney Harrell is a 32-year-old lesbian working in the film industry who rents an apartment with three others. Kathleen Moschel is a 63-year-old Republican and former Hallmark card store owner who lives in the Contra Costa County retirement community of Rossmoor.

Despite those differences, some political operatives and pollsters are herding these women into the same sprawling demographic: unmarried women. The "unmarried" bloc is emerging as this year's trendy political moniker, the granddaughter of the coveted "soccer moms" and "NASCAR dads" micro-targeted by campaigns past.

So what's the reason for wooing unmarried female voters - whom the targeters define as anybody not wearing a ring?

A quarter of all eligible voters - 53 million - are unmarried women, according to an October study by the influential liberal polling firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner, but 20 million did not vote in the most recent presidential election.

"They have the power to reshape American politics further, if they vote," according to the Greenberg Quinlan Rosner study. "Unmarried women have the potential to emerge as the 'Democrats' Evangelicals.' "

They're generally younger and have less household income than their married sisters, and they are turned off by the tit-for-tat repartee of political campaigns and the ensuing horse-race media coverage. And for the first time in a presidential race, there are as many unmarried women in America as married.

The key to appealing to them, said Ann Lewis, a senior strategist for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign, is "to tap into their social networks," both online and offline.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: ari-freedom
they are fiscally and socially more vulnerable and more receptive to liberal views.

I volunteers at the polls the past few elections, and in my experience, its absolutely true that most young (and unmarried) women are liberal Democrats.

As we watched people walking up toward the polls, me an my buddy would 'guess' the person's party affiliation.

80% of the time, a young woman would shoot daggers at us "Republicans" -- and not even take our political ballot junk we handed out.

21 posted on 11/27/2007 5:31:49 AM PST by Edit35
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To: TornadoAlley3
Ah the feelings institutional craze planted in the 70's, is to be harvested... there are a number of males raised by this feelings mentality that are every much the 'victims' as women.
22 posted on 11/27/2007 5:35:47 AM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: ari-freedom

The left has done this on purpose - destroying the cultural value of the traditional family with the male provider and the female nurturer and substituting the gov’t as the provider/protector.


23 posted on 11/27/2007 5:37:24 AM PST by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: TornadoAlley3
"Unmarried women have the potential to emerge as the 'Democrats' Evangelicals.' "

With Hillary as their Savior, and abortion their sacrament.

24 posted on 11/27/2007 5:39:40 AM PST by NeoCaveman ("Don't doubt me" - The Great El Rushbo)
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To: dragonblustar

I guess you must have taken your mean streak pills this morning to post that on FR. I may skip breakfast now. YUCK.


25 posted on 11/27/2007 5:40:40 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (I've been too busy for FR this weekend, because I did the things I refuse to let the invaders do.)
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To: Rock&RollRepublican

There are different types of unmarried women, all of whom are predisposed to hate American values and support socialism and secularism for different reasons. Bitter aging spinsters who hate men. Lesbians who have (thus far) been prevented from having pretend marriages to each other. Single mothers who want handouts and resent strong fatherly authority wherever and however presented. Young women corrupted by the culture they encountered on college campuses who dress like streetwalkers to go to office jobs and like to drink and drug and fornicate without consequences. God help us if any such people decide our election and our nation’s fate.


26 posted on 11/27/2007 5:40:46 AM PST by onward_xtian_soldier (God Bless America! America Bless God!)
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To: MrB; ari-freedom

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1931057/posts?page=4#14


27 posted on 11/27/2007 5:41:00 AM PST by sickoflibs (Are libs really as dumb as they act??(maybe they just assume we are that dumb))
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To: 1rudeboy
Probably the single greatest reason I, a political junkie, find watching American election "news" practically unbearable.

That makes a lot of sense!

28 posted on 11/27/2007 5:42:23 AM PST by DungeonMaster (WELL I SPEAK LOUD, AND I CARRY A BIGGER STICK, AND I USE IT TOO!)
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To: wolfcreek; OKIEDOC
Courting the unmarried, Lesbian WallFlower vote.

You both think about the same thing I was thinking. Lesbians targeted are already voting (D), but the media is trying to make a mountain out of a molehill - for the democrats.

29 posted on 11/27/2007 5:45:53 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (I've been too busy for FR this weekend, because I did the things I refuse to let the invaders do.)
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To: dragonblustar

Helen Thomas must be realllly desperate if she has to work nights


30 posted on 11/27/2007 5:47:30 AM PST by ari-freedom (I don't want Huckabee or Applebee...give me someone from Tennessee!)
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To: Just mythoughts
Your right, but the number of woman who think this way is way out of balance. For instance Bush recieved 30% of the vote in Massachusetts (1 million votes). Almost exclusively male.
32 posted on 11/27/2007 5:50:34 AM PST by outpostinmass
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To: outpostinmass
Your right, but the number of woman who think this way is way out of balance. For instance Bush recieved 30% of the vote in Massachusetts (1 million votes). Almost exclusively male

Which in their world view makes supposed conservatives evil... so even Bush tried to soften the well plotted and planned deception by attaching compassionate to conservatism. I have met some men/fathers, who did not live their lives to counter the flood of deception of evil being the description of conservatism. Liberals like Hillry know this, reason why they can fertilize and sew their hate then reap the harvest at the ballot box.

33 posted on 11/27/2007 5:59:31 AM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: onward_xtian_soldier
There are different types of unmarried women, all of whom are predisposed to hate American values and support socialism and secularism for different reasons.

Not all. You forgot about the single Christian woman who embraces conservative values, and the single older woman who has gained wisdom and, thus, is a conservative.

True, their numbers aren't as big as the others you mention, but they are out there.

34 posted on 11/27/2007 5:59:47 AM PST by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: OKIEDOC
"...The Lesbians mentioned made their sorry lives and now have to face the consequences of old age lonely and confused where money will not buy happiness...

Yeah, but when times get rough they can always do that scissors-thing like they showed on South Park.

35 posted on 11/27/2007 6:04:53 AM PST by -=SoylentSquirrel=- (I'm really made of people!)
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To: TornadoAlley3

What about unmarried men?

There must be 50 million of those, too. Or have they already been classified by the liberal idiots as the prehensile “angry white male?”


36 posted on 11/27/2007 6:11:24 AM PST by sergeantdave (The majority of Michigan voters are that stupid and the condition is incipient and growing.)
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To: onward_xtian_soldier

I’m sure there are Christian women, or even just women with high standards, who have good conservative values but are unmarried because they haven’t found a man that has met her standards.


37 posted on 11/27/2007 6:26:08 AM PST by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: ari-freedom

True.
Also, the reason we have a huge social/safety/welfare system with the accompanying huge taxes, govt and nanny state is male prostitute, politicians pandering to women voters.


38 posted on 11/27/2007 6:33:35 AM PST by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: TornadoAlley3

I’ve never been married and have never voted for any Democrat. I certainly hate to be lumped into that group!


39 posted on 11/27/2007 6:36:26 AM PST by peggybac (Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing)
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To: TornadoAlley3
There is one big unknown floating around in all of this: Hillary didn’t do as well among woman as it had been expected she would. In her first race she was not as strong even among Manhattan’s leftist females as she should have been. Pundits looking into this phenomenon found that women didn’t like her. One theme was that she was a nobody who had married a somebody. Another was that she, as a “feminist”, ate the same male pigsh*t that oppressed trailer trash might be expected to.

I would guess that stories of Hillary plus the Woman vote are just propaganda generated by the Drive By’s to counter a real weakness that they’ve long known and worried about.

I don’t think any of this matters because Hillary, despite the best efforts of her vicious backing crime syndicate WON’T be the Demo nominee.

40 posted on 11/27/2007 7:02:37 AM PST by TalBlack
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