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.
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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.
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.
With Hillary as their Savior, and abortion their sacrament.
I guess you must have taken your mean streak pills this morning to post that on FR. I may skip breakfast now. YUCK.
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.
That makes a lot of sense!
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.
Helen Thomas must be realllly desperate if she has to work nights
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.
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.
Yeah, but when times get rough they can always do that scissors-thing like they showed on South Park.
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?”
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.
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.
I’ve never been married and have never voted for any Democrat. I certainly hate to be lumped into that group!
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.
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