[lentulusgracchus]

The other faction is young women 19 to 34 who have a high unemployment rate (compared to other women their age in prior periods) and who are literally delaying having babies ~ which they want ~ because those young men they might marry, or to whom they're already married, don't have jobs.

Well, the elite college-educated ones have run afoul of the old rule about marrying up. By the time they're through grad school, "up" is all married-up, thank you, and they're screwed.

There is no chance they'll marry down -- remember Murphy Brown and the repair guy who was always hanging around? Good match, except that he was blue-collar and therefore no-go. (The actor that portrayed him died about six years ago.) I use her fictional character as VP Dan Quayle did -- as a visual aid only. But the success of the series was tied to real-world demographics, according to which television nowadays is so estrogenated that you cannot flip through the channels without seeing, on each one, either a woman, a doctor, or a child. And that's on the evening news. So Quayle's choice was appropriate.

And these women wind up all married to the Democratic Party, liberal ideology, two cats, and a glass of wine.

[muawiyah]

You missed the point ~ the young gals ALSO have a job and career deficit and nobody is doing anything about it. They have a slightly higher employment rate than the guys ~ but the economic conditions that prevailed way back when Murphy Brown was current simply aren't there.

Obama imagines he can capture their attention with free birth control, and maybe an improved condom or something.

Does not work when the need is for a job.